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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1911
Page
2
John Augustus O'Shea recounts a traveling show where a pelican of Australia fools a showman posing as an ostrich of Africa. An elephant and behemoth misfire at a cue, but the showman adapts, praising the loyal animal as he keeps the act moving despite a disrupted order.
The excerpt shows young Tommy returning distressed from a punishment room. A cabinet minister's son asserts powerlessness to grant “heaven sent” privilege, arguing for persuasion over coercion. The dialogue contrasts harsh discipline with mercy and hints at generational authority.
The passage muses on love as a warmer name for wisdom and asserts selfishness as an absolute law. It laments hypocrisy and proclaims love and selfishness, faith and godliness, as the inner facts shaping human character and life.
A Baltimore classroom moment after a history lecture on George Washington prompts a pupil to joke he might be too old to participate in modern politics. The exchange highlights a humorous, era reflecting digression on the nation’s founders.
A critique on caste as a birth based barrier in India. Caste controls marriage, dining, and daily life, with harsh social exclusion and no effective governance to reform it. The piece contrasts Brahman privilege with low caste denial across law, land, and public life. Secretary Evarts quips about Ohio's western reserve.
In early Hayes administration cabinet members recall a casual moment when the president noted he had made a few appointments without formal vetting, then friends and allies suggested the practice might continue.
An elder Dumas, recently made a commandant, wears a ribbon of a noble order. An envious friend mocks its color. Dumas replies that the hue comes from sour grapes, not a worn vest, in a wry fable reference.
In England during the George II era a government berth could be bought for about £500 such as a position in the victualing office with bribes and perquisites. Members of parliament with franking letters sometimes sold the right for £300 a year as noted by the London Telegraph.
The London Standard notes a feud between two well known British plants the thistle and the rape. Thistle infestations ruin crops and the only remedy is thorough destruction to ensure the thistle is absolutely annihilated.
Gossip and flirtatious exchanges from a club scene feature a waiter mocked for a salad hook and eye joke, a brash suitor pressed by a woman over money, and a playful, risqué tone drawing on clippings from Clever Plain Dealer London Tit-Bits and Chicago Tribune clippings.
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