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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1906
Page
5
Aberdeen items show heavy rainfall Tuesday and football town pride as Aberdeen and Hoquiam high schools prepare for a big Electric Park game. Updates on real estate, business notices, and local elections reflect a bustling town life.
Walter J. Kenyon notes in St. Nicholas on San Francisco Bay as a premier Pacific harbor. He highlights its fifty five mile reach, the Golden Gate strait, and the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers feeding commerce. The piece emphasizes its unique southern Pacific prominence beside Puget Sound and its danger filled cliff coast shipping.
The Indian Review discusses mole placements on foreheads and facial areas as luck or doom for men and women, including long prison terms and exile. It also offers a hot-water hand treatment for facial neuralgia, claiming relief within five minutes via nerve crossovers between the hands and opposite facial sides.
A husband boasts of earning $1 at poker at Brown's and offers it to his wife for a dress. She refuses the money citing moral scruples and asks him to vow not to gamble again, fearing his path toward gambling.
The piece notes a lunar athlete would jump about 12 feet in a broad jump and clear bars easily, with times six times faster, because the moon’s gravity is one sixth that of earth. It suggests an amused celestial view of human athletic limits.
In a late night exchange, a wife woke to loud snoring and pinched her husband Herbert into silence. He retorted that she would make noise too if she kept her mouth shut, ending the moment with a sharp quip.
A London reader asks about replacing every broken dish after hearing of war. Bridget explains she was told to replace them all, and she complies under a commanding mother’s direction.
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