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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1912
Page
2
Local notices show Evans Drug Co advertising magazines and perfumes while promoting light hauling by A Star Transfer. Community updates include visits, club meetings, travel to Seattle and Portland, and a cholera infantum death in the Calvert family.
Albert Schooley of Chehalis Democratic candidate for commissioner of public lands visited Friday and Saturday in Aberdeen and Hoquiam to drum up support. He attended the fair and praised its grand success among locals and friends.
School system continues free textbooks for all city schools. Pupils must provide tablets pencils penholders composition books and other items. Evans Drug Co at 407 East Heron Street offers to furnish supplies at the old stand. tf.
For sale an established shop selling candy cigars furnishings and shoes. Good location low rent. Seller must leave due to ill health. Address J M Aberdeen Herald 102 41.
Mr and Mrs A L Woodwards return from Seattle visit John H Wilson returns from Seattle Grace Salmon resumes teaching duties in Aberdeen Gardens Chicken supper at Baptist church next Wednesday 430 to 800 PM J W Burns arrested for begging case set before Judge Drake tomorrow afternoon Mr and Mrs George Braumbaugh visit son Ira Braumbaugh from North Yakima for several weeks F S Klodnousk arrested for riding motorcycle on sidewalks released on bonds Police court tomorrow afternoon City council to meet Wednesday to address tide fill district complaints No police court today due to Judge Drake’s injuries from Raymond Elk’s trip expected to recover for tomorrow’s docket
Miss Ethel Lena Rowe and Mr. Richard Lee Manuell wed at 10:30 a m Thursday in Mrs. Rachel Rowe’s home 109 East Market Street. Rev F K Van Tassell officiated in an intimate ceremony with Miss Mollye Gorman as bridesmaid and Ira W Sherman attending the groom. The decor featured autumn leaves smilax and pink carnations. A breakfast followed and the couple departed for a several week visit to Chicago with the groom’s relatives.
The Ladies Aid of the Congregational church held a post luncheon meeting at Mrs. John Kinnison home to plan the annual autumn fair before Thanksgiving. A broad committee slate was formed including general arrangements apron candy cap and bag and other subcommittees with several wives and neighbors named to lead each group.
Mrs G H Wartman returns from Burlington convention to Chehalis county with re election as State S T L secretary and will attend the National WCTU meeting in Portland Ore Elected delegates include Mrs E P French and Mrs Mary O Bruce Wartman holds a National seat and provides three representatives from Chehalis county A silk flag honors Hoquiam L T L for membership gain as nine six new paid up quiam’s record members were added last year Hoquiam wins prize for growth
The Montesano auditor's office reports licenses issued during the week by Auditor Trask. Names include H L Martin and Anna Waida, A C Miller and Gertrude A Harlan, J G Congleton and Belle Mc Cracken, plus several couples from Hoquiam Aberdeen Kelso and Oakville.
An old fashioned drug advertisement touts Dr King's New Life Pills claiming fast, gentle health benefits with no griping. It markets a 25 cent bottle for use by readers seeking improved well being.
Long nights bring high bills but Mazda electric lamps promise three times as much light for the same electricity use. Evans Drug Co. serves Aberdeen as agents for the sale of these lamps.
The Aberdeen contest named Clara Schuntz as the prettiest baby with Adelbert Eddy a close second. Dora C. Cooley won prettiest brown eyed baby, and John B. Meyer was the brown eyed boy with the prettiest eyes. Margaret Baisch, Muriel Gradl, Richard Kolts, Jane Cox, and Charley Walton were among other prize recipients.
The schooner Robert R Hind loads lumber at Anderson Middleton mill for south coast points. John C Meyer to finish repairs at Lindstrom yards and head to a lumber cargo within days. Watson A West stays at S E Slade mill for South America cargo. Wowona crosses bar and heads to Aberdeen mill for lumber to San Pedro. Bessie E at Endresen yards to receive loading orders this year. J B Stetson moved to Federal mill to finish cargo for San Francisco and carry passengers.
Witnesses report a slow pace as the federal bankruptcy case against Mrs. Sarah Levy proceeds in Tacoma. Seven state witnesses testified, with about forty more expected before the government rests its case.
Frank Pattison returned from a trip through Oregon and bought an 80 acre ranch in the Big Bend country. He visited points of interest in the state during the extended journey.
Norman S. Richards, known as the Henry of Navarre among Chehalis progressives, is announced to address Aberdeen City Hall next Friday evening October 18. Former Bull Moose candidate now seeks the 29th district legislature seat and is reputed to wield a sharp vocabulary against the Taft wing. An invitation is extended for a lively meeting.
Subscribers served by the city carrier who do not receive the Herald on Monday and Thursday by 6 p.m. are asked to call City Messenger Co at phone 5931. A replacement copy will be delivered immediately.
An Aberdeen advertisement promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a proven remedy for backache and kidney issues. It features a testimonial from John P. Pattison of 622 W Heron St praising the product and notes price at 50 cents with Foster Milburn Co Buffalo as sole US agents.
Auction notes list show items and prices including Burnett Jewelry set, knives and forks for 10 dollars, Montesano Furniture rug for 5 dollars, J. J. Kaufman carpet sweeper, T. C. Moulton heating stove with five joints of pipe elbow and dameer, and S. J. Steiglitz dessert spoons for 4 dollars.
Satirist Marmaduke Charles Edward Jerningham retires after twenty two years of London Truth aphorisms. The collection highlights witty epigrams on English society, class, honesty, and vanity, with lines on drink, libraries, gender, invention, and the idle middle class.
A dramatic street encounter described in a New York Press item features a highwayman demanding surrender. The reply mocks the threat by declaring a refusal to perform manual labor, highlighting the coin of urban bravado and wit.
Dr Frank Crane reflects on the contrast between waking life and dreams, where wealth, ideas, and glory vanish upon waking. He notes the freedom of pure ideas in dreams and the distractions of consciousness, weighing happiness in kingly dreams versus beggar realities. He suggests heaven and earth blur when dreams rule the mind.
A devotional line speaks of choosing the higher good over wealth or fame, voiced as a vow from a petitioner addressing a father figure. The text emphasizes moral priority and spiritual restraint.
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