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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1912
Page
3
A vast Syrian relic describes a 69 by 14 by 17 foot stone weighing about 1500 tons. Archaeologists link it to the Temple of the Sun ruins and note precise squaring, polished joints, and no cementing material. The article cites observations from Wide World Magazine and Dr Francis B Clark.
The article traces discus origins from stone hurls in Homeric times to bronze lenticular discs by the fifth century. It notes a British Museum discus of 11 pounds 9 ounces and explains the fixed stance and full body swing used to maximize distance, as depicted in Myron's Discobolus.
A description of guest houses in Asia Minor as village property with the head man arranging access for foreigners. Travelers have the right to use a shared large room where horses are fed in one section and guests mingle by custom and courtesy.
Clergyman William Spooner famed for humorous mispronunciations reportedly married after a shy slip of the tongue in a drawing room. Asked to request tea, he said will you take me instead, blushing as the lady accepted, enabling a marriage born from a spoonerism.
A demonstrator claims the car is almost human and jokes about staying awake. Binks dryly comments he has noticed the same, noting the vehicle’s behavior after the garage and during the last hill climb and asking for something less human and more satisfactory.
A brief quoted exchange from the Ladies' Home Journal where a child accuses a sister of lying and the mother admonishes, noting the sister did not call out misbehavior as promised.
A mother questions a sixteen year old boy about his maturity while a doctor notes his behavior. The Philadelphia Record reports the unusual exchange suggesting the boy lacks belief in his own knowledge relative to his father.
A Confucian adage notes that a single word can label a man as wise or foolish. The saying reflects on the power of language to shape perception and judgment in social and philosophical contexts.
The text asks what honor means and defines it as the finest sense of justice guiding life. It describes resisting frailty, guarding moral pathways, and the lifelong struggle aligned with eternal laws that sustain good and sacrifice, up to death, to confront mortality.
The excerpt contrasts Arab life in Algiers with Western perceptions and warns of dangers to Westerners in native quarters. It quotes Sir Henry Norman on unknown inner life and privacy, and then presents John J. Ingalls on death’s leveling democracy, where wealth and rank vanish in the grave.
A historical look at Krupp the famed German gun maker. Frederick Krupp left a grocery business to pursue cast steel with help from Von Kechel brothers. After early failures the firm flourished under Alfred Krupp, gaining fame after the 1851 London exposition and Prussian state orders.
The palace reconstruction demanded a year and thousands of lives. Nicholas ordered the project despite extreme cold and harsh working conditions. Workers endured 80 R heat indoors and 30 degrees below zero outdoors, dying daily as ice packs cooled their heads.
A star gazer in the Louisville Courier offers a love philter for $2 promising to make a husband love his wife to the exclusion of others. A practical housewife declines but counters with a contingent deal to share any salary he brings home on pay day.
In a witty exchange Harper's Weekly imagines waste and discarded tires. Binks asks where burst tires end up and the fellow philosopher replies that if they go where most are sent, there may be a terrible rubber smell in the hereafter.
Quote from Miss Cayenne in the Washington Star discussing whether women possess humor and noting a belief that they restrain laughter to avoid hurting men’s feelings.
In a compact exchange from a Boston Tran script Gibbs notes on diplomas and experience while Gibbs remarks on a marriage certificate nearly fitting. The dialogue captures a wry mood about official papers and life lessons.
A concise call to develop four key traits in future citizens. Professor Ralph W. Thomas argues effectiveness hinges on accuracy, initiative, intellectual and moral integrity, and public affairs interest, as central educational aims for national service.
Mrs. Jinks Binger declares their infant the smartest in the United States while a debate about European rights and clat rasps public discourse.
An Italian beauty book from 500 years ago prescribes color coded standards for women detailing skin hands and teeth as white, eyes lashes and brows as black, lips gums and nails as pink, and other traits like hair life and intelligence. The Albany Times Union notes the antiquated yet enduring notion of immutable female beauty.
A farmer hangs himself in his barn and his French wife, finding him later, leaves the body and continues work. Hours later she and their daughter discuss next steps and inform the mayor, who arrives and cuts down the corpse. death has already occurred for hours.
Andrew Hume, renowned Scotch bird lover, trained a wild canary to perform tricks. The feat included jumping to time with a skipping rope, performing on slack and tight ropes, climbing an upright rope, and standing atop a run.
A pallid old acquaintance recalls Lord B s death and laments his own ingratitude. He had dined with the deceased for thirty years yet received nothing in the will, leaving him shocked and unable to be consoled by others.
A boy tells his father of a sad incident in the High street where a deaf and mute man begging appears with an impediment in speech and a finger reportedly missing. The father questions the tale as unbelievable, while the son insists on its truth.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote notes a Boston social scene moment where a woman described as charming is mocked for consistently neglecting to sound the 'd' in iced tea, underscoring pretensions and social tone.
The fragment urges accepting minor present evils to secure larger distant gains. It argues disciplined minds gain decision and energy, enabling victory from defeat and honor from repulse through steady practice and resolve.
In the Chicago News dialogue, Little Elimer asks about the mind and Elmer answers it is something that turns round in the head and creates stories, presenting a simple explanation of thought.
An opinion piece criticizes Republicans as blind and selfish and urges reformers to unite with students. It argues the working class has been deceived by tariff profiteers and condemns graft as a personal fault tied to political bosses.
In selecting our stock the principal point is QUALITY. We are exclusive agents for Y. & EB. Filing Systems Carter's Typewriter Carbons and Ribbons Leopold Desks Colonial Office Chairs L. C. Smith and Royal Typewriters. After years of MAKING good these products have become SYNONYMS OF QUALITY. Next week we will mention others. Our Store Is Just as Near as Your Phone.
T H Hill public accountant advertises audited books and office systems installed at 613 East Wishkah with telephone contact 4.
Local listing announces New DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE on E Wishkah Street with telephone contact 5931 to 5941 for inquiries and updates.
Capital and surplus listed as $300000.00. Describes general banking business including foreign domestic exchange, buying and selling, taxes for non residents, and readiness to discount good mill paper.
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