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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
7
A grandmother’s box of “doll rags” from childhood sparks memory as Lucile, the great grandchild, cherishes scraps of velvet silk organdy and muslin. Also recounted is Professor Blackie in Edinburgh and a bootblack tale. The piece closes with notes on licorice roots and a quirky etymology of Boston.
A blend of math matchstick puzzles and a didactic tale about a water droplet becoming a snowflake. It includes a geometry exercise with forming squares and triangles and a narrative of evaporation and melting ending with a list of riddle answers and a note on licorice roots.
Thomas A. Edison claims a perfected light battery will enter market by October and be suitable for all autos. He tested 14,000 cells on about 100 vehicles, including express wagons in Washington, reducing operating cost to 58 percent of horse power. The chemistry relies on iron rust potash and nickel rust, with a battery half the weight and similar size of present cells, achieving speeds of 33 miles per hour on a two ton car in New Jersey tests.
The piece argues worry stems from nerves or imagined troubles and promotes work as remedy. It frames work as physical and mental health, urging right living and thinking while warning that dissipation harms. It quotes Atlanta Journal and Life about life’s oils and ends with a call to yield to capable others.
The dark horse Spokane owned by Vice Commodore F. Lewis Clark of the Eastern Yacht Club won the first Roosevelt cup trial at Marblehead Massachusetts. In other notes a Birmingham banker faced embezzlement charges of 97000 with a 25000 bond after a vacation discovery.
A jumble of old ads and notices. Includes a reward for catarrh cure by Hall’s Catarrh Cure and endorsements for F J Cheney Co Toledo. Mentions of a fire destroying Cobalt Ontario town and deaths from an explosion. Also references to Dr Kline nerve restorer and Mrs Winslow teething syrup with assorted quips and advertisements.
Boise merchants order 25000 yards of green and white irrigation color banners for the National Irrigation Congress session from September 3 through 8. Farmers from Utah Oregon Washington and Idaho mobilize funds and associations to compete for premium exhibits and a silver loving cup in Idaho.
The article profiles Capt. John L. Ely of Co. E, 17th Ohio now in Newton Kansas recounting kidney trouble from the Civil War cured by Dean's Kidney Pills. It notes the large upcoming National Irrigation congress in Boise with many dignitaries and government officials attending.
Philippine students sent to the United States by the insular government will devote their attention to southern states where crops like sugar tobacco and rice are grown. Currently 30 young Filipinos are in the United States studying farming.
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