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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1913
Page
7
A New York American article argues morning hours before breakfast offer clearer thinking. It cites authorities on brain blood flow, noting post meals dullness reduces mental performance and dictation improves when writing in the morning.
An Englishman in Tibet was taught tea making in a traditional style. Boil a cup of tea in three pints water for ten minutes with soda, then blend into a churn with one pound butter and a pinch salt until creamy. Tibetans prize aged butter, with some aged forty to sixty years.
Various expedients for measuring time were used before clocks. Alfred the Great had six tapers for daily use. A taper twelve inches long and proportionate diameter burned in three hours per inch, making each taper last four hours. Six tapers lit one after another endured twenty four hours.
The passage notes extremely rare medallions predating 117 A D and cites Caesar Augustus gold medallion as a famed example. It highlights Syracusan medallions from 400 to 336 B C as premier Greek art, with ideal heads on one side and a victorious quadriga on the reverse.
The New York American notes that Mexicans showed courage but never secured a victory against U S forces in battles such as Buena Vista Palo Alto Resaca de la Palma Montrey and Churubusco. American commanders like Scott and Taylor led decisive wins with overwhelming odds.
A solitary explorer uses a vertical rod to read shadows across a full Arctic day. If shadow lengths stay constant as the sun moves, he stands at the pole. varying shadows indicate he is away from it and point toward the boreal direction.
Six elephants work in tandem to capture a male herd member described as jostling and squeezing him toward a tree. The method involves riders guiding the beasts, then the mahouts dismount to slip slings around a hind foot and secure the animal, illustrating coordinated forest control methods from Strand Magazine.
Seaweed spores attach to oyster shells forming oval air-filled bulges. When tides rise, the weed balloons lift oysters off the seabed and carry them away, leaving hundreds of thousands of oysters ruined as water dries and air replaces it.
The oldest and largest chemist shop in the world is the Ancient Pharmacie Nikolaka in Moscow. Founded over 200 years ago it employs 252 dispensers and 466 other staff and fills considerably over half a million prescriptions annually.
Harper's Weekly recounts a test where a researcher immersed in a cold pit at 110 below zero Celsius for up to eight minutes daily over a week regained appetite and painless digestion. Dogs heated in blankets also endured the cold briefly but became ravenous afterward.
Dr. Alexander Frazer recounts Henry Irving ill in a Glasgow hotel. A Highland gathering in a lower room heard the bagpipes as Irving recalled his youth in The Siege of Lucknow. The pipes sparked a wave of audience enthusiasm and a sense of relief as Lucknow was mentioned.
A cat belonging to an Australian expedition member captured a strange small animal among rocks. The anthropologist on the party identified the creature as a new and rare insect eating marsupial, a member of the family that includes the giant kangaroo.
In Paris a notorious duel between Colonel D an elderly Bonapartist officer and M de G a strong guard youth ended after a carriage chase around the Place de la Concorde. Both were mortally wounded with multiple stab wounds eight for the colonel and four for the youth one of which pierced his heart.
Miss Devane recalls a society newspaper praising her wit and charm yet spoiling it by pairing a flattering remark with her photograph. Her best friend calls the editor’s framing horrid and undermining.
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