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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1899
Page
2
A Philadelphia Record excerpt discusses why parents often prefer sons over daughters. It argues the motive is sentimental, rooted in an East Asian feudal idea that sons symbolize family strength, lineage, and protection, more than mercenary cost.
A New Orleans lawyer explains that fright in dreams stems from simple or disproportionate fears. He shares his own recurring scene of a gloomy hallway ending at a door to a plain room with a white kitten, triggering panic before waking. Others report similarly inconsequential yet paralyzing visions.
A soldierly man and a small group watch three big tigers pacing their dens as feeding time nears. One remarks about meeting a tiger at large and the other agrees, noting it would not be pleasant.
The article notes smokeless gunpowder corroding gun interiors, a sea elephant with a long trunk, copper bottom ships causing galvanic corrosion near Iron Warships in Liguria, and Bell's flying machine experiments. It also describes ostrich egg telephoning at a California farm and a Yale brief on electrical anesthesia using high frequency current to block nerve sensation.
A New Jersey couple eludes party guests by climbing to the roof. They cross to an adjacent house, descend to a back street, enter a carriage and head to the railway station. Other snippets joke about church letters and vast store inventories.
The San Francisco Bulletin quotes Edward Terry describing a tour moment where a child's innocent question, Mother, is it real, breaks a tense quiet in a crowded theater. The tale showcases the power of genuine praise amid crowd dynamics and pathos.
Indications point to great prosperity for the coming year as health is linked to success for nations and individuals. If stomach trouble arises, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is urged as a remedy for dyspepsia indigestion and biliousness. An electric express between Dusseldorf and Crefeld covers 14 miles at 87 miles per hour.
Don t wait for sickness to strike. When fatigue and rheumatic pains appear, take Hood s Sarsaparilla to restore health and prevent serious illness. Hood s is urged as the safe choice. A St Paul mass meeting set a uniform 25 cent rate for hair cutting with 105 shops represented.
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