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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1905
Page
3
Washington reports the cabinet focused on a boycott of American goods and complaints about how exclusion laws are enforced. Rockhill and Taft warned that enforcing certificates for Chinese entrants would unfairly harm worthy individuals and complicate consular duties.
Seattle Oct 7 a conference between the Washington State Historical Society and the Washington University State Historical Society led to a committee being appointed. The panel will plan the merger into one society and set conditions for combining records and placing them under the University of Washington.
The steamer Havana from New York, Sept 27, carries the advisory board of consulting engineers of the Panama Canal Commission and some commission members. All aboard are well on arrival at Colon.
Gov. Mickey issues a requisition to Montana for Pat Crowe now detained in Butte on charges of shooting and wounding an Omaha policeman. Detective Heitfeld departs for Butte with papers.
Developments in Seattle tide land deals point to Harriman interests securing options on waterfront tracts including properties in Seattle and Tacoma. A completed block 335 sale near 800000 sparked rapid speculative activity with short term options held by Portland buyers and Tacoma interests, as secrecy surrounds the moves ahead of public disclosure.
Yakima men and Eastern capitalists form the North Coast Railway Company to build a standard steam railway from Sunnyside to Cowlitz pass, tapping Cowlitz coal fields, Tietan basin, and Gold Gill district. The line will connect with Tacoma Eastern, surveys complete, offices in Yakima, construction to start at once.
Chicago on October 7 reporters state that the indicted packers will enter pleas of not guilty before Judge Humphrey on Monday. Demurrers will challenge seven counts as ambiguous and two as double charges, with five corporations filing demurrers separately and agents filing theirs individually.
St Petersburg reports Japan will receive 64 000 Russians at Kobe Nagasaki and Yokohama while 1 866 Japanese prisoners in Russia will be released on the Western frontier. Vladivostok will host the transfer aboard 10 ships from Shanghai Saigon and Odessa. The American envoy Eddy seeks faster release for 250 ill Japanese with a direct Baltic voyage.
A report on Polly Porter the parrot shows a twenty five year memory as he chats full sentences, calls family members and servants by name, mimics cries of newsboys, sings Yankee Doodle, and even scolds with a sharp naughty boy. The bird sits in a dining room bow window and requires attention at breakfast, greets guests, and demonstrates playful mischief with pets.
The World's Work notes a 1902 New York letter from Thomas B Reed to Henry H Rogers after a West Indies voyage with Mark Twain and others. Reed jokes that guests added weight but warns a yacht needs virtue as ballast and gravity in storms.
An article of commerce notes Lattakia tobacco reddened by Nusairieh smoke from a tree called elezer. It adds a humorous exchange with Senator Sorghum predicting graft will fade only as language evolves with a new term.
Readers note a Detroit Tribune exchange where a woman’s constant dwelling on troubles makes her unwell and affects others similarly. A proverb laments a man gauging greatness by neighbors' smallness.
Skerryvore lighthouse sits ten miles southwest of Tiree and twenty four miles west of Iona as one of the loneliest spots in the British Isles. Before 1844 ships were lost there each year.
A long extract combines a critique of a forty year old cotton scandal with detailed notes on lighthouse life. It mentions the 1887 Skerryvore lighthouse built by Alan Stevenson, its height and dimensions, and the sea rocked rock site. It also discusses the Holmes crop-report fraud in the agricultural department, the call for reform, and glimpses of lighthouse keepers life on Mull including religious observance and reading interests.
A collection of anecdotes contrasts rigid service in India with practical judgment. A Chinese servant delivers a ready bath amid battle, and an unknown soldier wakes late because his master did not sleep on time. A church member tests marriage licensing for watermelons, with pastor Williams offering practical counsel.
A man reflects on Miss Filbert and concedes she is to be his wife. He admits his initial poor impression but now accepts the engagement as the decisive moment in their relationship.
A playful dialogue from Yonkers Statesman notes Patience asking about Patrices beach attire and Patrice answering she dressed much when not bathing, showcasing light social exchange at the shore.
Directory snippet lists doctors and lawyers with contact numbers and hours. Dr Smits at Aberdeen General Hospital offers multiple daily hours. Hayes & Hayes Building shows two offices with phone lines. A G Kinnison C Cross Zelaska Block and H Fox attorneys are named. Taggart and Sheers lawyers noted. I W Mason provides building plans and estimates from 94 Heron Street with 30 years experience.
Four years register Olympia land office. Understands the law and defends all homesteaders against the jumpers. CONSULT HIM. Room 3 Hayes and Hayes Bank Building Aberdeen Washington.
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