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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1907
Page
3
Reminiscent holiday craft piece describes woolen poodles and griffons knitted or crocheted in white or colored yarns. It highlights two Skyes style dogs as baby friendly and durable toys, with button eyes and black yarn noses.
Instructions describe making perfumed sachets from ribbon a yard long with a maximum four inch width. Tie an ordinary bow knot tight to keep the loops perky. Pack powder between two cotton layers, close with matching silk, create bag-like loops, fringe ends, and present in a holly decorated box.
A mixed verse page presents lullaby stanzas about Baby and Lady Sleep with a mason bee scene, then a courting couple under moonlight with two lovers named Somebody, and finally reflections on work among varied motives. The pieces echo 19th to early 20th century lyric style.
A widow and her daughter beg a missing father to return home as clocks strike one through three, revealing Benny's worsening illness and death. The plea centers on a father's absence from the sick bed and the family’s loneliness, hope, and grief. The last words spoken by Benny express a wish to kiss papa good night.
A romantic speaker pleads for genuine love over mere affection as Annie resists being spoiled by fond embraces. The dialogue mixes tenderness and frustration, urging true feeling beyond form and ritual. The verse captures longing and alternating passion.
A dark forest scene with a campfire and wolves contrasts with a second verse about Joan of Arc in Rouen. The first piece evokes solitude and freedom under the night sky, while the second reflects on deliverance and sacred imagery surrounding Joan of Arc and French liberty.
Short clippings recount a teacher quizzing pupils on divers diseases with the joke water on the brain, a sick wife avoiding dumplings, the whistling acacia in Nubia, worry and hurry, a Servian Zadruga tribe, a quick romantic twist, Austrian waste lands, and notes on cricket, coal mine play, and a Kansas cough cure anecdote.
An Aberdeen resident, August Carlson, reports relief from severe back pain and weakness after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He credits the remedy with curing his kidney issues after trying other medicines. Sold by dealers nationwide at 50 cents, Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, NY.
A catalog of fire alarm box locations across Aberdeen and nearby areas. Entries include Box numbers with cross streets and landmarks such as mills schools depots and businesses like Hart Wood Lumber Co Western Cooperage and Anderson Middleton Mill. Several fictitious boxes are marked with an asterisk.
The Abdeen Semi-Weekly Herald presents a twice weekly transcript of local doings in Gray's Harbor. The publication schedules its pricing at two dollars with one fifty in advance, signaling a steady regional news cadence.
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