Town News Briefs Tumble Over Numerous Local Goings On
Evans Drue visits in town while Mr and Mrs T Godfrey travel to Concordia Kansas. Frederick Betz of Portland visits his father John Betz. The Aberdeen Rebekah lodge hosts a social. two new flags raised at J M Weatherwax high school. W C T U meets with Mrs Sarah J Myers. A daughter is born to J and Mrs W J Robinson. City officials John Walker and Arden depart for Chicago. Progressive Women meet with Mrs Ben Ilette. Various residents travel to Seattle Portland and Des Moines for visits. Daisy notes, sales and notices from Evans Drug Co and local shops fill the page.
Federal hatchery project starts at Quiniault Lake
Henry O'Malley of the federal fisheries bureau arrives from Seattle to launch a food and game fish hatchery at Quiniault lake. Foreman J D Russell named to supervise. work begins immediately with first units ready before season's end. Location at Fall creek mouth and Big Creek racks to propagate Quinsault waters. this year considered experimental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry O'Malley
Federal Fisheries Bureau
Pacific Coast
Seattle
Quiniault Lake
O'Malley
J. D. Russell
Fisheries Bureau
O’malley
Foreman Russell
Big Hatchery
Fall Creek
Olson
Big Creek
Wiley Forgets Report Under Federal Corrupt Practices Act
Washington dispatch reports Robert Wiley, Tacoma district congressional candidate, failed to file a required report. The act imposes up to 1000 dollars fine and up to twelve months imprisonment for willful noncompliance. The clerk suspects forgetfulness and notes reports are due between 15 and 10 days before the primary. J H Dege, Democratic senatorial candidate, says he spent only 75 dollars for the filing fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
House of Representatives
Robert Wiley
Tacoma
Congress
House
Wiley
J. H. Dege
Secretary of the
Senate
Training Faithful Work Quiets Selfish Desire
The article argues that doing unwelcome tasks builds discipline and reduces self indulgence. It notes that even with freedom to choose, discontentment arises and must be trained away by faithful effort. The piece emphasizes steady work as a remedy for personal tendency toward ease.
Where now O Europe Is thy boast and progress
A New York Times editorial laments Europe's fading claims of human progress as war returns to the continent. It contrasts modern savagery with past labor and points to strife famine and bloodshed across Europe. The piece warns that European powers relapse into old conflicts and weapons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
New York Times
Russian Forces Prepare Massive March Toward Berlin Through East Prussia
Russian war plan groups up to four armies of two million troops moving successively through East Prussia and Galicia toward Berlin. Insterburg, Koenigsberg, and Danzig form key railroad and port nodes as Rennenkampf leads the advance into historic Napoleonic theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Prussia
Galicia
Berlin
Russia
Russian War Office
Commissariat
Koenigsberg
Posen
Danzig
Insterburg
Pregel
Frische Haff
Baltic Sea
Vistula
Gulf of Danzig
North Sea
St. Petersburg
Rennenkamp
Mukden
Charge Without Officers In French Vosges Fight
A London Mail dispatch details French soldiers left with no officers after their major and other officers fell. The survivors fixed bayonets at 1200 yards and charged, singing, amid heavy enemy fire. A wounded artilleryman recalls German troops filling trenches and a battery crossing a human bridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Mail
Vosges
Zeppelin Bomb Cage Described by English Refugee
An English refugee arriving in London from Belgium describes the Zeppelin method for dropping bombs. The airship hovers at a distance and lowers a long steel cage with a bomber inside to release ordnance. The cage, fired upon, is protected by its strength and constant motion, making accurate rifle or artillery hits unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Belgium
Watchful Waiting Tells of Ostend Ferry Oddity
Passengers report a corpulent Frenchman aboard near Ostend who stripped to a life preserver on the deck after leaving the wharf at Ostend. When asked for his purpose he answered with a single word Mines revealing a possible mine scare or protest as the boat traveled via Folkestone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ostend
Folkestone
Iron Duke Battleship Heralded as Navy's Hope
The Iron Duke, flagship of the British home fleet, is the largest newest battleship with 25 000 ton displacement and ten 13 1 2 inch guns. Completed in January 1914 it stands beside three 27 000 ton battle cruisers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Germany
Mary Garden Says Royal Audiences Bore Her
Opera star Mary Garden recalls in American Magazine that singing before royalty is mainly a professional burden. She describes the English court as dull, notes the king slept while the queen applauded, and recalls the Greek king and Windsor visits. She admits she dislikes courtesy, yet honors Marconi for achievements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Garden
Europe
Edward
Alexandra
Greece
Windsor
Marconi
England
The Australian Blacks Dying Out Myth Debunked
A London Standard correspondent argues that Australian Aboriginals are not dying out. Civilizational progress pushes many inland, with few families, while some small tribes vanish under change. Not all groups decline. some migrate or persist with aging populations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
London Standard
Fortune Started in Belfast Watchmaker Story
The article recalls William Gibson who began as a Belfast watchmaker. During riots a stone shattered his shop window and struck his eye. He later received £6,000 under the Malicious Damages Act, starting a fortune of about half a million pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Gibson
Belfast
Gibson
London Sporting Times
Prodigal Son’s Religious Exchange Mocked by Father
A humorous exchange features a prodigal son claiming religion and asking for ten, while the father retorts that religion is free and the son has the wrong kind, highlighting a witty miscommunication about belief.
Burns Ends on Unfit Souls Exclusion From Bliss
The impure, the deceiving and the uncharitable are left from eternal bliss by their unfitness for enjoying Burns.
Suffering by Proxy and the Recorder of Deeds Joke
A dialogue shows Senator Hughes urging Secretary Lane to hear a grievance about the interior department with Lane appointing Hughes to listen. In another vignette a new gatekeeper jokes about the afterlife as a “Recorder of Deeds” while the clerks are idle, noting he records the good deeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughes
New Jersey
Interior Department
Lane
Saturday Evening Post
Recorder of Deeds
Pearly Gates
Louisville Courier-Journal
Formosa's Ancient Cypress Tree Described
In Formosa a cy press tree aged between 2500 and 3000 years stands with a sixty five foot circumference and its lowest branches forty five feet high. The species is the Japanese beniki.
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Formosa
May’s New Hat Sparks Snide Exchange
In a brief quip from the Philadelphia Ledger a reader notes jealousy over fashion with May’s hat described as hideous and dismisses the idea of one complimenting May over another, highlighting petty banter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
May
First Thanksgiving Proclamation by Governor Bernard
Francis Bernard issued the 1767 proclamation as captain general and governor in chief over Massachusetts Bay. Dated November 4, 1767, the form has followed the same substance since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Bernard
Massachusetts Bay
Proverbs on Tools and Zeal
A witty contrast asks why a woman would use a hammer to drive a tack when a hairbrush is available. The second line offers a broader critique that men misjudge their own zeal.
An Attack on Scotland Golf Quip and Idle Wisdom
A fragmentary newspaper item discusses life and ambition with quips on aviation pigeons and motorists. It includes a brief aside about golf with a joke from the Philadelphia Ledger and a line about misfortune making trifles fade. The piece weaves aphorisms and a captioned joke into a single, period voice paragraph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Philadelphia Ledger
Recipe Fragment for Sugar Jelly Sauce
A partial recipe combines 34 cup sugar 14 glass jelly 1 tablespoonful flour 114 cups cold water and 1 tablespoonful lemon juice. Miz all together and cook until smooth.
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Iowney’s Chocolates
Evans Drue
Mrs. T. Godfrey
Concordia
Kansas
Frederick J. Betz
Portland
City
John Etz
W. Hall
Aberdeen Rebekah
Frank Thrush
Iss Mary Hicking
Oseburg, Oregon
Evans Drug Co
G. O. Clark
University of Michigan
J. M. Weatherwaxigh School
W. J. Robinson
Sumner
Williams Streets
John Dalker
Arden
Wednesay
Chicago
John Morgan
Rochester
Wash
M. J. Fisher
The
Progressive Women’s Club
Fen
Thomas Hazen
West Heron Street
Amo Goce
Peter Hanson
Thomas Morgan
Grays Haror Hardware Co
Isabelle Shehy
San Antonio
Texas
Evans
Isle Range
Montesano
Wm. Seaan
Lake Uinault
S. C
Masonic Temple
Oswald Bell
Tecumseh
Iowa
Mrs. Bell
James F. Connor
Hoquiam
Pasana
Cal
Mrs. S. Coats
Rayond
Coats’ Ster
Hiram Layport
Fam
Potter
Heron
Frank Beam
Presbyrian Ladies Aid Society
Eleventh and
Ireets
the Congregational Church
Charles McDermoth
East 1St Street
Parenteachers’ Association
Geo. B. Miller
J. Meatherwax High
Victor Williams
Saginaw
Pinick & Kenny
W. R. Dibkey
Westport
Joseph Phillips
Saulie St. Marie
Mich
Julia Benson
Mt. Vernon
Evans Drug Co. U
R.L. Fromme
Henry McCleary
MccCleary
S— W. H. McWhinney
Earl
Om Gem Yale
Luce’s_ Bicycle Shop
Susan Green
St. Helens Hall
Evans Drug Co. of
Fred Hartung
Hoquiam Sash & Door Co
Mrs. P. Byene
Clearbrook, Wash
Trine Johnson
West
Hume Street
Phillip A. Bertrand
Grays Harbor Railway & Light Co
Spokane
Northwest Electric Light & Power Association
Quinsault Hatchery
Federal
Lake Quiniault
Wiley Forgot Report
Broadway Telephone
Pharmacy
Aberdeen
Czar
American Press Association
Mary
Bob. Bryan
Grays Harbor
South F Street
Hume
L. L. Maley
Aberdeen, Wash
Jerry
Burpee'’S Dairy
Aberdeen Carriage Co
Peter Ibsen
Auto Bodies
Wishkab St
H. L. Cook & CO
Frybg CO
Aberdeen and Hoquiam
Washington Creamery
Washington
Olympic
Willis R. Lebo
Jaques Mfg. Co
Leipfal
16Th and
Canal Sts
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