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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1913
Page
7
The article outlines a Japanese jujutsu training regimen stressing extreme endurance and mental discipline. Pupils endure heat and cold with seasonal drills, begin early morning wrestling, and undergo two major annual competitions with up to 400 couples. Advanced students face a staged strangulation and resuscitation to test nerves and apply kwappo resuscitation.
A vivid Wide World Magazine piece recounts a Sahara storm striking travelers in Germany and the transformation as rain and cold follow. It contrasts peril with humor as a rail trip and German railway culture are described through a narrator’s reminiscence of early trains and the word verboten.
The New York World notes fillet of sole is rare in American menus and often replaced by flounder. It remarks sole does not swim locally, arriving from Europe in ice boxes after about a week. Sole is a finer fish and should be eaten promptly for best taste.
Farmer Comtesse teases his son over his outfit asking if the attire is, as he jokes, straight from a fashion plate and noting college chums might be teasing him as a bazin.
A Detroit Free Press joke sketches a boy and his mother washing hands before meals and a pointed line about a husband washing before “hooking up” the wife, framed as light domestic humor. The fragment hints at social manners and gendered duties in a playful exchange.
A serious girl asks about literature and Mr Penwiggie answers that literature is a gamble where anyone may write a lottery ticket, noting the open, creative risk in the act of writing. The Washington Star quotes the exchange as a philosophical remark on writing as an unpredictable craft.
A boarder recalls senna tea used by his mother to ease childhood distress after eating unripe fruit. He jokes about enduring the remedy, despising its jaillike taste, while noting his aged preference for peace and his readiness to confront anyone who mentions senna tea. The quote is attributed to Walt Mason in Chicago News.
A Leslie's Weekly note describes a fungus on corn in eastern Siberia that ferments bread made from the crop. The humidity and soil cause districts to become inebriated by this so called alcoholic bread, a curious regional phenomenon observed between a sea and a river named Missouri.
An old note discusses how a lion would outpull a strong horse when facing opposite ways but would be even more powerful if pulling backward from the hind legs. It also includes a humorous exchange about a photograph resembling a father and mother in the Yonkers Statesman.
In a humorous vignette from the Ladies' Home Journal, a mistress questions Norah about French sardives she served the box opens and the new waitress claims they were sharp and fresh when opened.
A terse dialogue recalls a camping night soaked by heavy rain with enveloping wet sheets. The speaker urges compliance with good laws before changing flawed ones, attributed to Ruskia.
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