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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1913
Page
6
An amusing Bath tale from Sporting Stories recounts Captain O Flanagan disobeying a riding master Seffart’s rule of separating sexes during exercise hour and provoking a fall from a temperamental horse Fortunatus. He ends up in the road amid laughing onlookers after a chaotic exit.
An odd walking match arranged by Captain Bennett had him trundle a hoop from Whitechapel church to Ongar in Essex a distance of twenty two miles in under three and a half hours. Bennett won with nearly an hour to spare earning 100 guineas. Two years later a Cambridge man bet he would walk twelve miles in four and a half hours with no stoppage and no foot touching ground. He completed the distance in three hours and forty five minutes.
In a small village the local justice of the peace handles cases and weddings. During a ceremony the groom faces a question about a so called diamond pin Sam the chore man brings from the city. He claims the jewel’s value and authenticity while joking its honesty if fake would short him half a dollar.
Students offered humorous misstatements during a school exam revealing gaps in spelling and science. Examples include confusing ignorance levels with numbers and misdefining the liver and vacuum.
A medical column surveys taste in invertebrates and vertebrates noting no universal taste organ in crawfish worms snails and slugs while detailing taste bulbs in mammal tongues and the limited sense of taste in birds reptiles and some insects. It cites 1867 discovery and counts of taste bulbs in cows.
In the Milwaukee Journal account guests at the Hotel Pfister laughed as a key clerk peeled potatoes at his desk. The gag drew giggles from diners and gossip as the clerk explained he was peeling for a humorous effect and not for kitchen use.
A light arithmetical tale shows a pupil asking where erased figures from the board go. The teacher's proud moment is undermined by the boy's innocent curiosity. The anecdote reflects classroom humor and the durable memory of mathematics.
In a country school a teacher scathingly scolds a pupil for home lessons. He calls him a curate's egg good in parts and the boy sobs aloud asking what bird a curate is. The exchange ends with confusion and a puzzled student.
A London Strand note catalogs mixed metaphors used in parliament. It cites Mr Balfour calling an empty theater of un pathetic auditors and Lord some ship out of the wood while Sir William Hart Dyke recalls Mr Lowther catching a big fish then climbing a tree. A financial minister links government steps with manufacturers interests.
Justice Marshall of the Richmond Quoit Club, famed for throwing heavy quoits, played in a meet near town with Rev. Mr Blair. The contest featured a lively dispute over the meg rule, Marshall arguing first ring wins, Blair prevailing in the end, with Marshall briefly bested before a later rematch.
An 18th century wedding report raises questions on the oldest marrying ages. Greenwich register notes John Cooper aged 108 wed Margaret Thomas, 80, in 1685. The London Chronicle also records elderly groom William Keith Ball born 1788 who married in 1870.
A seventeenth century entry notes John A. visiting Ipswich Quakers on July 8 1656 amid hunger strike beliefs. It cites a teen martyr and a fanatic group showing defiance to magistrates with at least one sustained twenty days and another who perished attempting to eat.
Two avid anglers in a slow port scene nearly capsize a trip as one man topples into the water and is mocked for his disappearance. The other calls out asking where he has been while keeping a calm, wry tone.
The piece travels from Belle Isle Strait into Labrador along an endless procession of icebergs drifting southward. It highlights Battle Harbor as a lookout point and notes how each month’s bergs originate from different northern regions including Labrador, Baffin Land, Kane Bay, and Greenland.
A desert water hole in Western Australia fills at night as heat and cooling drive a siphon-like flow. Dr Malcolm Maclaren reports a long narrow trench with a gneiss plate and cavity beneath, where day heat expands the rock creating space for water to rise and vent, then contracts to push air and water back.
A 16 foot genealogical tree at Hatfield shows Queen Elizabeth’s descent reaching back to Adam. The pedigree includes coats of arms and birth and death dates on the modern sections. Notably Elizabeth’s armorials fill one side while the other remains blank for her future husband.
The New York American argues the first sighting of America was by Ericson, with Leif Erikson reaching Greenland and coasts as far as Newport Rhode Island by the year 1000. It states Columbus did not discover the continent and never set foot on continental America, though his voyage gave the first reliable notice to the world.
A humorous exchange: a young woman asks for floor wax at a drug store. The clerk says no floor wax but has sealing wax. She replies that they will dance and need the floor wax, not ceiling wax.
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