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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1899
Page
7
Fragmentary text references pay rates and pension considerations for employees, with scattered mentions of unions, months, and locations. Data is garbled, but suggests discussions of wages earnings and retirement benefits for workers, with partial figures and damaged phrasing.
Railroads adopt a smoke reducing device using deflecting tubes to mix hydrocarbons with coal gas, aiming to cut black smoke. Rock Island and others plan full installation soon to improve passenger comfort and fuel efficiency, with engineers to train for proper firing and equipment.
Mme Labori wife of the wounded Dreyfus counsel and known in America as the wife of pianist De Pachmann. An Australian girl born Margaret Oakey she showed musical talent in England and trained under Pachmann in London. The couple toured together in the United States and Europe where she drew attention for beauty and refined piano art before reports of De Pachmanns infidelity ended the public romance.
A legal notice indicates a wife plans divorce proceedings. Reference is made to Mme de Pachmann withdrawing from concert life after securing the suit and soon after marrying M Labori, a noted confidante in his major trials.
The article profiles Mr. Stears, a Detroit resident living in a large Linden stump near Pere Marquette in Mason County. A former cabinetmaker, he built a sealed two room tree house about fifteen feet high, filled with pictures, an oil stove, and a wall of notes detailing his life and musical skills. The piece blends eccentric living with local color and reminiscences of relic pilfering and social quips from period newspaper humor.
The O R and N and Oregon Short Line add buffet smoking and library cars to the Portland Chicago through service with updated chair cars day coaches and first class and ordinary sleepers. Granger connects to Union Pacific and Ogden to Rio Grande for Oregon Washington and Idaho to eastern cities. Also mentions Lloyd Mifflin the poet and a German use of potato bread for horses. Dr Kline offers a nerve restorer trial bottle. Indianapolis street railway plans a car plant to build and repair its own cars.
A historical note recalls Prince Chilkov of Russia who rose from a Liverpool locomotive yard mechanic to station master and inspector general before becoming minister of railways after touring the world to study foreign systems. Additional items mention a plant growth claim, Hostetter’s Bitters, a Lake Erie cooperative colony plan, Jesse Moore whiskey pricing, Piso’s Cure, and Chippewa Falls Sunday shop hours with 15 cent shaves.
An advertisement touts the Rio Grande Western Railway as the top year round transcontinental route through Salt Lake City, highlighting superior dining and Pullman car service, with connections to the Denver Rio Grande and Colorado Midland. Also notes are made about deafness cures and a political note on Seats for Shop Assistants, plus salt restoring drowned animals.
An ad claims laborers gain strength from vigorous health. It asserts blood is life and purifies with Hood's Sarsaparilla to make the weak strong, implying higher earnings for healthier workers.
In Berlin the pawnshop is described as a royal philanthropic institution with profits spent on charity. The piece touts a scenic journey East via the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, highlighting luxurious dining, sleeping, and reclining cars. Tickets and info are available through KR Nichol, Portland, and regional agents. It ends with a note on a Korean electric railway rule about women riding on cars.
Danish critic George Brandes reports Ibsen praising Russia as a noble oppression that breeds liberty. Rudyard Kipling is taken to a house by Thomas Hardy who, when alone with Kipling, reveals Hardy as the host. A receptionist learns she has met Rudyard Kipling and Hardy within the same visit.
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