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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1906
Page
6
A New York Tribune piece traces how hundreds of English words derive from the body, especially hand and head. It cites examples from index to orator, audience to cordial, and links to feet, mouth, heart, and head terms, noting shifts in meaning and metaphor.
A Cleveland Plate Dealer quips on a man’s apparent simplicity while noting he played poker with a stranger on an ocean liner. Carpenters claim the universe is not proven to follow natural laws, but is governed by them.
A New York Press anecdote describes a man challenging a friend to bet on a visible trait of a well dressed woman. Three women ahead subtly nudge each other as the passerby with poised carriage is observed, revealing an unspoken, shared understanding among women.
A brief note traces the term crank from Dr Murray's dictionary usage in Guiteau's trial reports to its later vogue. It also notes cranky as early as 1787 meaning sickly and Dickens using cross senses, all rooted in crookedness and deceitful tricks.
The history of Tacitus survives in a single fifteenth century Westphalia monastery copy. The emperor had ordered copies in every library and annual transcriptions for scholars, but most disappeared except this one. A witty exchange on happiness and keeping to one’s own business closes the note.
A brief dialogue from the New York Press features Mrs. Jones correcting a tramp who clears his plate, noting the cake is angel cake with wine jelly and whipped cream. The tramp jokes that hunger makes anything taste good.
A practical, apparatus free technique for rough leveling using a spirit level a straight edge board two ground stakes and sight lines to measure differences in height. Readers can compute level difference by comparing marked sight points on stakes with the measured ground distances. Farming.
The article traces button use from ninth century Troy and Mycenae where Dr. Schuemann found gold silver and bronze items suggesting ancient buttons. It notes medieval peasants used wooden pegs for fastenings and that cloth covered buttons were banned by George I. It mentions 1720 as a push to boost metal button manufacture.
A wife suspects her husband Henry has a guilty conscience after she notices he stays home every evening and questions his recent behavior. The exchange between Agnes and the wife suggests hidden worry about infidelity or a troubling secret.
In Stray Stories the line notes Die Meistersinger was sung for the first time in America at the Metropolitan Opera House on January 2, 1896. The scene shows a father and Ethel in a drawing room discussing time as a young man leaves for breakfast.
The ticket lists Congressmen at Large William Blickman of Seattle Patrick Byrne of Spokane and Dudley Eshelman of Tacoma. Supreme Judges include Charles W. Hodgdon of Hoquiam E C Million of Seattle W W Tollman of Spokane and Bo Sweeney of Seattle.
State Senator Ben Sheeks leads a slate for Aberdeen with representatives A L Callow Samuel B Davis in 29th district and A S Hodgdon in 30th district. Officials include Auditor Peter F Clark. County Attorney J C Cross. Treasurer John Richardson. Assessor W F Wagner. Sheriff J M Bowes. Clerk W M Melrose. Supt. of Schools E L McDonnell. Surveyor J J Dunn. Coroner Dr F L Carr. Wreckmaster Chas McIntyre. Commissioners A J Stewart and George Glander.
Experienced teachers, fine location, modern building, thorough work, moderate expenses. Send postal for our free fifty page illustrated catalogue telling what education means for a young man or woman. Enter any time. Fall Term Begins Oct 2. Parkland address.
A Mobile merchant endorses Ballard's Horehound Syrup as a lasting remedy for coughs and pulmonary diseases. He claims five years without winter coughs for his family and credits the syrup with saving his children from sickness. Sold by Shelley's Drug Store.
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