Local Aberdeen Notes From A Busy Week
Aberdeen residents attend church and social events, visit relatives, and travel for studies and work. Students from Grays Harbor plan study returns to Seattle and Seattle trips for university life. Local officials, churches, and merchants advertise services and events while noting meetings and community activities.
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Phillip Barett
Russell Callow
Fred Madigan
Tom Cushman
University of Washington
Grays Harbor
Seattle
Lake Quinault shore lease dispute clarified
Forest Supervisor Fromme contradicted reports that the Lake Quinault shore would move to the Indian department. He stated the lake area is recognized as Indian, but shore lands remain managed by the forestry department, with no change in lessee rights planned.
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Lake Quinsault
Indian Department
Fromme
Olympia
Forestry Department
Bold Burglars Loot Tobey Home on East First Street
Unoccupied residence of Mr and Mrs C P Tobey at 614 East First Street was entered and ransacked Friday evening during the Pythian festival. Mrs and Mrs R Steeves, partial occupants, lost two gold rings and fifty dollars from a pocketbook. no clue to the thieves.
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C. P. Tobey
East First Street
Engagement announced for Miss Bessie Hulbert and Dr Edward Barnes Riley
Invitations have been issued for the wedding of Miss Bessie Hulbert and Dr Edward Barnes Riley set for Wednesday September 23 at the bride’s parents home 807 North M street in Aberdeen. The bride is a social favorite and daughter of pioneer residents while the groom is a leading Grays Harbor physician.
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Bessie Hulbert
Edward Barnes Riley
Edward Hulbert
North M Street
Aberdeen
Grays Harbor
Legion of Friends
School Officers Elected At Ocean Breeze Election
At the annual high school senior election Miss Mary Filler was named editor and Joseph Keith business manager of Ocean Breeze. The paper will become semi monthly with the new editor and manager already preparing the first issue.
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Mary Filler
Joseph Keith
Ocean Breeze
Rifle Shoot Honors Won By G Company Members
At the Montesano range during the annual G Company rifle shoot Sergeant B H Short won the regular event with 218 points while Private Tie ran won the novice event with 202 points. The match demonstrated high marksmanship and keen business interest.
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Montesano
B. H. Short
Tieran
Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey for Fall Cough and Cold
Fall coughs and colds can lead to serious lung trouble. Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey is urged as pure and harmless. The ad promises quick relief for infants and adults, soothing throat and lungs, loosening phlegm, and fortifying against colds, all for 25 cents at the druggist.
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Dr. Bell
Mrs O'Donnell Passes After Long Illness
Mrs James O'Donnell died Sunday at St. Joseph's hospital after a long illness at age 37. A Pennsylvania native, she is survived by her husband and seven children. The body was sent to Seattle for burial at the Home Parish of the Catholic Church where her parents live.
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James O’donnell
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Be Pretty Turn Gray Hair Dark With Sage and Sulphur
A vintage ad promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound to restore natural hair color. The remedy, sold for about 50 cents, allegedly darkens gray hair evenly and leaves hair thick and glossy while also claiming to stop dandruff and itchy scalp.
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Wyeth
Reporter Makes Lords Adjournment Blush Moment
A London Daily Citizen writer, bored in the gallery, mutters why not move the adjournment. The lord chancellor takes it as a bid and instantly adjourns the debate. The reporter, upon leaving, blushes at the unintended triumph.
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Fleet Street
Gays
London Daily Citizen
House of Jords
House of Turds
Jests About Scottish Kings and a Visitor’s Remark
A brief reminiscence on many portraits of alleged Scottish kings with similar noses. Scott notes they predate oil painting by centuries. Hazlitt recalls a London Chronicle tale of a visitor who asked an old guide if she painted the kings, and she shook her head as the man suggested she could have done better.
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Holyrood
Scott
W. C. Hazlitt
London Chronicle
Mayor of Bird Land Lizard Canary Featured at Show
A Boston Herald retells how the lizard canary, famed as the “mayor of Birdie Land,” dazzles in its first year with a striking ground color and cap yet moults away its plumage by the second molt. The tale recalls Sir William Treloar, then lord mayor of London, likening himself to this bird during a cage bird show.
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Birdie Land
William Treloar
London
Boston Herald
Mendelssohn’s Surprising Organ Recital at St John’s
The Westminster Gazette recalls a London anecdote about Felix Mendelssohn visiting St John’s on Waterloo Road. He performed an improvised thunderous organ piece in full view of the congregation, then abruptly left after placing his hat on.
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Mendelssohn
St. John's
Waterloo Road
R. J. Horsley
R. A
Denmark Hill
St. John’s
Westminster Gazette
Treaties Advertised By Life As Wars Catalyst
A Life magazine clip mocks treaties as plain language tools. It argues treaties mainly serve lawyers diplomats and editors and are used to drive war or political advantage.
Flippant Flings and National Follies Across Papers
A string of quirky notes from multiple papers cites lighthearted scorn at real world events. References include the pennant race formalities, a jab at Carnegie and legal action, price monitoring by the National Housewives league, and a Georgia mule struck by lightning with Texas resilience joked about.
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Binghamton Press
Carnegie
Hague
Galveston
National Housewives’ League
New York Sun
Macon Telegraph
Georgia
Texas
Houston Post
Noisy inventions and political jabs in editorials
A string of newspaper quotes weighs in on topics from the canal open in New York to November elections in Milwaukee. The dictograph earns rebukes in Philadelphia, Niagara Falls is praised as a mediation center, and a noiseless riveter device is imagined in Indianapolis.
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New York World
Milwaukee Journal
Philadelphia Inquirer
Niagara Falls
Hague
Washington Star
Indianapolis News
Inventions Granted For Everyday Household Uses
A paddle wheel system for rowboats powered by cranks has been patented. A reusable softening paper dishcloth that remains durable when wet is patented. A portable blacking stool attaches to chairs for shoe shines. Saxony introduces a stocking embroidery machine that decorates 36 pairs at once with 288 stitches each.
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Saxony
Port Personals notes on famous figures across papers
A collage of brief zingers from major papers. Andrew Carnegie is queried by the New York Telegram, Von Lind may have become censor general of Europe per the Washington Post, Mme Caillaux retires after a vigorous political start per the Washington Star, and Mme Thebes notes her long running European war prophecy as she highlights the current conflict in the Chicago Herald.
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Andrew Carnegie
New York Telegram
von Lind
Europe
Washington Post
Mme. Caillaux
Washington Star
Political Sagacity and Reassessing Leadership
A concise reflection on how history reshapes judgments of political sagacity. The author notes that true sequences reveal who led and who followed, challenging earlier perceptions of leaders and those blindly guided.
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Samuel McChord Crothers
Unselfish Eskimos Share Wealth on Arctic Whale Voyage
Four East Cape Eskimos joined the Narwhal for the Arctic whaling season and earned a haul of flour sugar hard bread calico tobacco cartridges needles tea matches and more. Upon returning to shore every item was shared with the tribe as they carried their portion to their igloos. Their wealth did not change their communal happiness in the village.
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Arctic
Siberia
East Cape
Siberian
Bering Strait
Cruel Torture Methods Reported In Mozambique Colony
Libby Belcher in Wide World Magazine describes Portuguese rule in Mozambique with details of shark gauntlets, fortress executions, and whipping posts. It notes parole for some convicts and brutal palmotaria punishment with a spoon shaped implement causing severe tissue damage.
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Portugal
Mozambique
Liby
Belcher
Wide World Magazine
Sires and Sons Highlight Notables and Young Prodigies
A collage of brief notes recounts figures from high society and academia. Rockefeller keeps an automatic time safe at Pocantico Hills. Albert Richards, a New York chemist, must wear a life long mask after a severe explosion. The Duke of Grafton nears ninety four, while the Earl of Courtown and Lord Armistead approach ninety. Nelson O Shaughnessy, born 1876, shares education in New York Georgetown and Oxford and study in Europe. Arthur Lamb, fourteen, entering Harvard in October, already a noted organist and former assistant at Old St Pauls Boston.
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John D. Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Albert Richards
New York
H. H. Alkeman
St. Louis
House of Lords
Duke of Grafton
Earl of Courtown
Lord Armistead
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
Georgetown College
Oxford
England
Inner Temple
London
Europe
Arthur Lamb
Harvard University
Old St. Paul’s Church
Boston
Ancient Armies and Battles Before Hannibal Era
A summary of ancient military forces including Italy before Hannibal with armies around one million men from Terah Ethiopia and Sesostris Egypt. Thebes gate strength, Hamilcar's Carthaginian expedition near Palermo, fleet numbers, and a fatal battle with 150 000 slain.
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Italy
Hannibal
Terah
Ethiopia
Sesostris
Egypt
Thebes
Hamilcar
Carthage
Palermo
Simple Nut Bread Dough From Sifted Flour Mix
Sift together flour baking powder and salt three times. Stir in milk or water to make a dough. Use same baking directions as Nut Bread, bung in cans or a bread pan. Optional sugar.
Nut Bread Ingredients From A Historic Recipe Card
A traditional nut bread recipe lists flour salt nuts milk sugar baking powder and optional raisins or citron. Directions say mix and bake as directed, yielding a fragrant loaf from this vintage card.
Rye Bread Recipe with Rye Flour Caraway Seed Mix
Simple bread instructions list ingredients for Rye Bread using white and rye flour milk sugar salt and optional caraway seeds. The method instructs sifting dry ingredients three times then adding seeds and milk before baking per bakery rules for other breads.
Graham Nut Bread Recipe Note from 1913
A brief 1913 note describes Graham Nut Bread made with white flour graham flour and chopped nuts or raisins mixed with sweet milk. It suggests sifting flour baking powder salt and sugar then folding in graham and nuts to form a stiff batter baked as nut bread. Next week promises Paper Bag Cookery.
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Jaques Blig
Helpful Hints on Bread Making
Practical guidance on baking powder breads stressing preparation, gentle rising in the oven, and proper pan use. It notes K C Baking Powder for long sustained leavening, cautions against kneading bread, and encourages following precise mixing and baking steps for a light loaf.
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Evans Drug
Laymond McKenna
Pullman
Iss
Florence Hook
Sent
Evan, Co
Mrs. W. W. Walk
Five Hundred
West Sixth Street
Rosaline Brachvogel
E— Abrey Archer
Fri
Te University
Vaca
Ngram Chamberlain
Evans Drug T
Isses Debectine
Frances Paine
Oberlin
Ohio
Walter Huttula
Aberdeen High School
St. Agnes Guild
Episco 1
Epworth Esaeue
Fred Siioes
Uth Aberdeen Five Hundred Club
Kley Street
St. Andrew’s
Episcopal Church
T Fourth Street
Mrs. Mee
Kingsley Andughter
Miss Frances
Portland
Harold McQueen
First Methodist Church
Salem
Oregon
Illamette University
Vera Johnson
North Posies
Ruthary Keyes
John C. Hogan
R. B. Motherwell
Hogan Ome
North G Street
Isabelle Arey
West First Street
A. D. Wood
Ila Beach
Lexington, Ky
Alfred Hart
W. B. Fetterman
E. B. Riley
Rebekah Logde
E. E. Jane
William Thompson
Llewellyn Graham
The
State University
Sarah Middleton
William Irvine
Lowney's Chocolates
Evans Drue Co
Jay G. Weatherwax
Claire Carter
Sound Cities
Juan Wilbur Miller
Cripple Creek
Colorado
J— Street
Fear
Oria Wever
City
Son
R. E. Wever
J. D. Ellis
Ocosta
That City
T. M. Watt Copland
Sylvester Camillo
Ralph Faulkner
Scott Stevens
E. M. Burger
Ontario
J— John A. Peterson
Malmo
Sweden
Ff. Evans Drug Co. Tr
R. J. Schmidt
Alma
Minn
G. O. Clark
University of Michigan
Irving Barkley
Hill Military Academy
Horace Cook
Grays Harbor Hardware Co
O. T. Field
Norwegian Methodist Church
First Baptist Church
A. T. Ellis
Grays Harbor Hospital
H. P. Potter
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Co
Spokane
Union Depot
Central Council
Parent- Teacher Association
Weatherwax High School
Phillips
Cody
HOP BY Parcel Poste
Broadway Pharmacy Telephone
Ron
O’donnell
Bird Land
Port Personals
Mme. Thebes
Chicago Herald
Sires and Sons
Kansas City Star
Bob. Bryan
South F Street
Hume
L. L. Maley
Aberdeen, Wash
Burpee’s Dairy
Aberdeen Carriage Co
Peter Ibsen
Auto Bodies
Wishkab St
H. L. Cook & CO
eLayl
M.ake
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