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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1906
Page
8
A guide on excuses hindering advancement in the business world. It contrasts self made rationalizations with employer directed excuses, showing how both erode ambition, focus, and perseverance. The piece warns that habitual excuses trap a worker from rising to higher positions.
A collage of quips on friendship work and life from old editorials. It cites lines about leaving friends alone and the ironies of social routines, noting blunt views on male bravado and modern hobbies. The sample mirrors clipped insights from the era.
A dialogue notes Hiniks undergoing surgery with a doctor confirming success. The scene frames a recovery status as singularly successful, reflecting a dramatic exchange about the medical outcome.
A basic demonstration claims to prove Earth's rotation by placing water and lycopodium powder in a bowl. After a few hours the black line in the powder allegedly shifts from east to west relative to a fixed floor reference, indicating the bowl’s contents moved with the Earth’s rotation while the powder lagged behind.
A Philadelphia North American item recounts scientists sent by Washington to study bald cypress behavior. Logs floated north of a latitude line but sank south of it, provoking a debate on earth rotation effects and the logs' waterlogged nature.
Annie Oakes Huntington explains the deadly amanita and the death cup in forests, detailing color forms from bright scarlet to creamy white, how the poison acts hours after ingestion, and the need for emetics and prompt medical care. It notes danger from handling, and warns that poisonous mushrooms can contaminate edible ones in the same box.
The piece notes farmers often destroy aged or unfruitful trees unaware of wood value. Cherry wood yields attractive figures for furniture imitating mahogany. Apple wood suits turnery and cogwheels and fruit presses due to strength. Walnut wood commands high prices in fine cabinet work, highlighting its desirability.
An exchange asks what becomes all the pins. The answer: they fall to the earth and become terrapins as playful wordplay in the Atlanta Journal.
A German proverb notes it is better to have a single egg today than risk losing opportunity by waiting for tomorrow. The saying emphasizes practicality over postponement.
This season's finest cuts with perfect workmanship and handmade quality. Four stylish weaves English worsted serge Scotch mixtures Cheviots and Wool Cassimeres in single or double breasted sacks. Suits for business or dress wear priced from $12.40 to $20.00. Saturday and Monday only.
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