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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1909
Page
6
The Department of Agriculture backs farmers institutes for wives and daughters, seeking practical home management and domestic science training for rural areas. Critics note limited access to sericulture and home economics resources, with calls for extended expert guidance and adapted curricula to reach country women.
A garbled report describes a long pursuit and mining era events. It mentions prospectors in Alaska interior and a jury selection process with names drawn to form juries. It also references a death duel aftermath involving a farm near Prowbridge and a hawk attack.
Harry March, an English engineer, brings Portuguese radium ore to the United States claiming rich deposits enable commercial radium manufacture. Analysts from Oxford and Columbia verify uranium content and note the ore yields higher radium per ton than pitchblende, with experts calling it three times superior as raw material.
Joseph T. Talbert, president of the Chicago Clearing House association and former vice president of Commercial National Bank of Chicago, advocates country banking as a training ground for young men. He credits his own success to a rural start and elbow-rubbing with farmers. He says knowledge of customers and their habits yields the best banking results and urges earnest youths to take a country bank path.
Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale claims original discovery of the north pole in a spoof letter. He narrates absurd travels with a sawhorse and pony, Eskimos, polar bears, and a fake expedition culminating in a fanciful claim to the pole and his own declination.
Mrs Thomas A Iddison recovered a $1100 Giamond ring six years after it was found by a youth who kept it believing it held no value. Robert F E McCarthy of 52 Mount Vernon Avenue Orange found the ring as a student near Llewellyn Park and Moison home.
Benjamin Yoakum, railroad president, argues farmers and railroads share interests and prosperity. He urges direct cooperation over political channels, warns against prejudice toward corporations, and calls for systematic organization to unite producers and transporters for mutual benefit.
Edison argues aerial navigation will transform transport within ten years with machines capable of 100 mph and passenger service. He says the flying machine should be learnable and reliable for any intelligent user, criticizing planes as sports gadgets and urging a practical, universally operable design.
Alfred East argues American clubwomen are the most interesting companions for men praising their self reliance and independence. The column then surveys varied facts from coal in the Philippines to a four legged hen, African wildlife notes, tobacco seeds, freight rates in Brazil, a kite record, and quilting fabric manufacture highlighting technology and home industry.
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