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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1899
Page
2
The Aberdeen Herald satirizes trends from royal painting to poetry by Austin, women's rights campaigns in Cuba, hydrophobia cases, and cycling excess. It quips about Lady Bernhardt aging, queenly reciprocation, and the dangers of American restlessness while lampooning fad obsessions.
Report of the 1889 convention session in St Paul with officers elected by show of hands. A cornier observer recalls a man soliloquizing on his fingers. Also mentions Vanderbilt’s new locomotive trial and a Rugby statue unveiling of Thomas Hughes with praise from the London Spectator on shaping today’s schoolboy ideals.
Connecticut enforces a food adulteration statute where presence of any antiseptic or preservative not evident to buyers marks the article adulterated. The state runs an experimental station analyzing suspected products and alerting prosecutors, a method that curbs fraud. A recent test revealed pure fruit jelly was starch paste sweetened with glucose and colored with coal tar dye, flavored, and preserved with salicylic acid.
A defense of military officers as gentlemen with a keen sense of honor criticizing the idea that any deficiency in morality or intellect excuses eroding standards. The text urges unwavering maintenance of honor in all circumstances and condemns conduct unbecoming an officer.
The piece argues against anti-Semitism in military circles and explains Malthusian theory, noting how invention boosted subsistence despite population growth. It reviews U S coinage history, detailing costs of pennies, Treasury profits, and the circulation of minor coins like the half-cent and three-cent pieces, with context on penny slot machines.
The New York Herald notes opals shed evil omens among the informed and now symbolize luck and mutual affection. Opals are cut as heart shapes for rings, pendants, or brooch centers, with Australian stones large enough for simple gold frames and lorgnette chains.
A humorous antique sketch recounts a boy christened What becoming an involuntary interlocutor. It notes the social laughter and the parents’ folly echoed in the child and ends with a quip on a monkey with a hand organ and the idea that time teaches people to air their troubles.
A recap of terse world items notes Paris fires blamed on anarchists, Venezuela gains ground under Castro, Merriam urges census enumerators to study, Vanderbilt dies of paralysis in New York, and wide-ranging dispatches on labor, diplomacy, and navy moves.
A San Francisco section item notes Circle City in Alaska now has a population of about one hundred. The report highlights other brief notes from various regions and events across the country.
In Carterville Illinois a bloody riot between white and black miners leaves six black men dead and one mortally wounded. The Illinois National Guard and Herrin miners with Krag rifles arrive to aid order as violence flares after months of tension between union and nonunion workers.
London reports the Transvaal replies to Mr Chamberlain with a nine page, negative and defiant document. It repudiates suzerainty reverts to seven year franchise and denies Dutch English language equality in the volksraad. The cabinet may meet soon to decide next steps and an appeal to the powers for arbitration is anticipated.
Cape Town Daily Mail correspondent reports Afrikanderbund circles claim President McKinley has intervened between Great Britain and the Transvaal. The assertion frames U S involvement in imperial affairs during the crisis.
Secretary of War cabled General Otis about two Sixteenth Infantry men condemned in the Philippines for assaulting native women. A third soldier is being tried, with papers to follow after court-martial. Sentences await War Department review. papers likely in about 80 days. Reform in Baseball league formed in Chicago will include St. Louis Milwaukee Detroit Chicago Baltimore New York Philadelphia Washington. A C Anson offered presidency but refused.
New York reports that the Schurman commission offered Aguinaldo self government and a peace price of over 5000 for restoration of peace with the Tagals. Aguinaldo declined, demanding immediate self rule. President Schurman said home rule could be expanded locally while maintaining broader national governance.
Washington September 18 Only Secretaries Gage Root and Postmaster General Smith and Attorney General Griggs attended a cabinet meeting. The president said he planned to extend a Chicago trip to Minneapolis and St Paul. Several subjects were discussed but no final action taken except Cuban money orders to the United States the rate rising from 30 to 50 cents per $100
Misson Pacific freight No. 124 wrecked at 4 30 P M between St Paul Neb and Julian station near Nebraska City Three crewmen were killed instantly and cremated Engineer Tom Gillam Fireman T M Ruse and Brakeman W H Foster all residents of Atchison Kans were killed and cremated
Michae Owens and Richard Conroy, marines of the cruiser Philadelphia, died from the effects of drinking wood alcohol. Both enlisted at Mare Island, Owens a former member of the Sixteenth Infantry who served in the Cuban campaign and came from Samoa and Badger. He was a native of Philadelphia.
In a mountain fort near Williamston West Virginia Sheriff Henderson and a 15 man posse captured Devil Anse Hatfield his son Bob and John Dingess a Hatfield relative. They will be taken to Pike County to stand trial for murder connected to the Hatfield McCoy feud. Also reported in Pulaski Virginia Noah Finley hanged for highway robbery and attempted murder the first such execution in years in Virginia. Alfred Ray representing a Philadelphia syndicate shipped men and materials to Alaska to build a second railroad there.
Fragmented text mentions Oregon, references to representatives, claims, and charters. The readable portion hints at political or organizational notes but lacks coherent events, dates, or identifiable individuals. The item appears damaged, offering minimal clear information for a traditional summary.
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