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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1901
Page
9
In Guernsey Olivia confides a warned peril as Martin grapples with a forbidden love and a cruel husband. Julia reveals Olivia is already married, with a disappeared fortune and legal entanglements leaving her vulnerable and trapped by deceit.
I follow Julia and Kate Daltrey to Sark where they meet Olivia Ollivier Foster, wife of Richard Foster, who fled Melbourne with a lawful guardian tyrant as Olivia seeks concealment. Kate reveals Olivia's peril and the law's impotence, while I vow to protect her.
A gossiping scenario unfolds on an east end lawn as a woman tries to spark jealousy in a man by praising a rival. He coolly counterpoints with practical remarks while the dialogue extols poetry and music, ending with the swing emptily swinging.
A suburban customer visits a paint shop and misreads a three letter memo CPA as a color code for sepia brown. After realizing its meaning he buys sepia paint and replaces hush money with a red apple, leaving in a sheepish mood.
The Philadelphia performance of the Messiah featured a chorus anthem built on the line We have turned every one to his own way. As the choir repeated turned they kept turning pages, provoking a plain citizen in the rear to mutter Shoot up about it.
A prominent railroad man notes the shift from engine names to numbers due to pressure from various local interests. He cites a Washington Navy Department nuisance, recalling that Secretary Long faced many requests to name ships after people or things, more than other wartime questions.
A man seeks a scribe to write a letter but the scribe cannot. He explains a foot pain keeps him from writing others letters. The man notes that whenever he writes for someone he is always asked to read it because no one else can decipher his writing.
The article notes transmission speeds of 106000 miles per second over land telephone wires and not more than 6020 miles per second through undersea cables. It adds a domestic aside that a cook breaking one dish weekly occurs on Sundays when the head of the household is home to hear and grumble.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes dot drawing on a slate using a 25 by 25 grid of drilled dots. Players alternately connect adjacent dots in eight directions to form pictures, with the finishing stroke naming the next subject, and prizes awarded for most finished drawings.
A nostalgic piece contrasts royal dolls from Paris gifted to the Empress with a motherly reminder to value home sewing and childlike joys. It laments throne life’s shadows while celebrating simple pleasures of dressmaking and imaginative play, then shifts to a rustic portrait of a freckled boy craving honest, outdoor mischief.
A tall yellow sunflower peers over the garden wall and muses on the vast world beyond. The plant admires meadowland, hills, and a long road where travelers pass, realizing how little he knew of the world beyond his garden.
A Sunday school lesson prompts a boy to name the three great feasts of the Jews. The reply arrives as Breakfast, dinner and supper, delivering a humorous twist on traditional terms.
A mother asks her son if anyone called while she was out. Willie recalls one caller, noting he looked old yet seemed very young because he had no hair on his head. The exchange uses humorous framing to highlight Willie’s literal observation.
The late Senator Kyle of South Dakota is described as the first and last Indocrat an Independent Democrat who fused Populists and Democrats to win a U S Senate seat. He educated in three states for three professions and faced long ballot battles before securing election.
Ex-Gov Throckmorton used a startling tactic in Gainesville Texas, pulling pistols from under his arms and from boots and a bowie knife from his neck to show the defendant, shirt sleeve and no visible weapon, might still appear armed to jurors.
The article notes Chinese residents in the United States number 107 000, more than Dutch 81 000 and nearly as many as French 118 000. It also mentions a proposed law about a woman gaining weight and wearing a raspy day skirt.
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