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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1905
Page
4
The Aberdeen Herald announces semi weekly publication with editor Varney and postal status in Aberdeen Washington. Subscription rates listed as two dollars for one year and other terms. The paper touts oldest status on Grays Flatbor with large Chehalis county circulation.
The article extols merchandising as a vital middleman role from country stores to wholesalers. It urges young men to start as clerks, stresses fair pricing and customer service, and notes pressures from trusts while predicting Pacific trade growth with Japan and China, needing raw materials and Northwest lumber.
In 1858 a statement described vast regions beyond as the chief theater of events in the world’s hereafter. The man who spoke held a keen wisdom and a careful one, though his words were once deemed idle.
August 15 1902 letter from H Warrison of Cleveland Mias praises Ballard's Snow Liniment for curing a knee abscess after stepping on a nail. The note also mentions abscess causes and lists W B Paine Co as a seller.
Multiple vessels including schooners Forrester A. F. Coats Henry Wilson Bangor Chas E Falk and Watson A West load at Union West Slade American and Michigan mills for San Francisco San Pedro Guaymas and Santa Rosalia others sail for Chinese and Mexican ports while steamer Centralia and G C Lindauer depart for San Pedro and San Francisco dockside movements described with loading for western ports.
A year after Bishop Potter dedicated the Subway Tavern with prayer and hymns critics celebrate its failure to establish a lawful saloon in New York slums. The venture faced public scrutiny and opposition from reformers, with supporters arguing the idea remains sound despite poor results.
The article notes per capita lumber consumption ranging from 600 to 750 feet, totaling about fifty billion feet annually for eighty million people. It warns this rate would deplete southern yellow pine within six years and the Pacific coast resources within fifteen, with Minnesota and Wisconsin pine reserves at about forty billion feet, about one fifth of the time.
An advertisement touts Ballard’s Horehound Syrup as a pleasant and effective remedy for neglected colds affecting the nose throat ears head and lungs. It lists prices 25c 50c and $1.00 and cites a Texas customer testimonial from Valley Mills. Sold by W. B. Paine & Co.
The Illinois Central advertises unexcelled service from the west to the east and south with connections to Chicago Louisville Memphis and New Orleans and onward to the far east. Representatives B H Trumsumn J C Linpsry and Paul B Thompson invite inquiries on lowest fares and best routes.
An advertisement urges readers to try Electric Bitters for internal disorders and dyspepsia at Red Cross Pharmacy with a 1 cent guarantee. The Herald is promoted as Gray’s Harbor’s most read paper.
W. S. Stewart outlines stumpage values in Washington Oregon and California and traces history from 1875 to present. He notes rising pine timber values, regional shifts toward yellow pine, and vast standing timber totals across Pacific coast states with estimates near 850 billion feet worth about 800 million dollars at one dollar per thousand feet.
Leading advertisement from The Herald Printers offers car tickets and full sheet posters. The notice invites customers to plan their work with The Herald, which runs twice weekly. Price mentions $1.50 in advance.
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