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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1918
Page
6
Members of Congress fine district selections naming Wills C Hawley of Salem for the second district N J Siamot of The Dalles for the third district and C N McArthur of Portland among seers indicate local leadership roles.
Shiloh Relief Corps No 28 meets the second and fourth Thursdays each month at 2:30 PM in the I C O F Hall.
King George honors Doreen Ashburnham and Anthony Farrer with the Albert medal for courage after they fought a cougar attack near Cowichan Lake on September 23, 1916. The seven foot long cougar charged the children as they sought their ponies. the boy and girl defended each other with fists and a bridle, drove the animal off, and it was later killed.
A humorous exchange features a goat and a dog debating an almanac described as guaranteed to last a hundred years. The dog chides William for carelessness while the goat defends its digestion of the century manac.
In Vardo Norway the sun hides from late November to mid January, totaling seven weeks of darkness. Daylight lasts about an hour in clear weather, and coal shortages limit electric light to half normal. Schools and events are canceled, and residents live in deep shadow.
The Astronomical society of France held a solstice celebration on the Eiffel tower before the war. The tower's military use paused the event, but revival is expected when conditions permit. Meanwhile Spain and America held a solstice event at the Fabra observatory in Barcelona last June.
A 1917 misspelling omitting the letter t targets the New York Life Insurance company. The company’s president notes the blunder with humor saying rivals will call it genius, while the Journal cites the moment as a moral low for the period.
The note debunks a famous rumored quote attributed to Kosciuszko claiming he cried Finis Regni Poloniae after Maciejowice. It cites a 1794 German paper and a 1803 letter, confirming Kosciuszko denied uttering it. The Poles then rallied with the Dom browski march, later associated with the Polish anthem refrain Poland is not yet lost.
A Franco American air service pilot named Lumiere performs thrill riding feats near a piste in a National Geographic Magazine letter. He flies inches above ground at high speed, clearing a telephone wire and weaving between trees and hangars without a crash, proving remarkable machine rapport.
In occupied northern France wild boar become a wartime nuisance as gentry raids resume. Soldiers using blunderbuss buckshot ambush boars in thickets guided by dogs, with a corporal claiming two kills while his captain saw no game.
European corset makers return to whalebone to stiffen stays and umbrella ribs. Shortage of steel drives up whalebone prices to 300 dollars a ton for blue whale bone and 400 dollars a ton for rorqual and piked whale bone.
A Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt describes a so called liberal beach where women are not required to wear more clothing than on the street. The dialogue questions the location and propriety of such beaches amid public moral concerns.
On Mount Mariveles in the Philippines the Negritos, a mysterious tribal remnant, hunt all day with minimal food aside from fruit. Women help when dogs are scarce, while a successful hunt may yield a captured pig or a news sighting of a python. The community then feasts on the slain serpent in a triumphal procession to the village.
The piece compares Lady Mary Wortley Montagu born 1689 with Elizabeth Robinson dies 1800, noting parallel lives in wit independence and unhappy marriages to wealthy, prudent men. It highlights their youth, vivacity, and defiance of norms, and the overall sense of unhappiness in their personal happiness.
Elmer W. Thyng of Augusta Maine, a Mounted Scout with the One Hundred Third Infantry now in France, reports that their barracks previously housed Napoleon era troops. He describes a city of old fortifications, stone and cement houses built long ago, white walls with red tile roofs, and cobblestone streets that make wooden shoes noisy in rain.
George P. Serin ship's cook third class aboard the U S S San Diego earned a Navy commendation for conspicuous gallantry rescuing a shipmate from drowning. Chief Boilermate Henderson was swept overboard during a night gale. Serin jumped into storm seas and saved him despite unsafe boat lowering conditions.
In 1917 oil companies achieved a maximum daily crude output of 1,000,000 barrels, the highest ever. Refining capacity rose to 1,250,000 barrels per day to meet growing demand.
George B. Fryer, superintendent of Chinese blind institutions in Shanghai, says China’s 1,000,000 blind people and rising education will make it a world power. He notes Chinese youths volunteer at St Dunstan's style rehab for blinded soldiers, earning about 20 cents in three months. Fryer traces the school to his father Dr John Fryer, UC emeritus professor and translator for China.
The piece argues that Russian landscape painting reflects the psyche of the Russian people. It describes a fundamental dreariness and autumn melancholy, with white winter sadness, alongside spring madness and the Slav's intense yearning as snow melts and floods emerge.
The excerpt paints a lush image of Russian landscapes and seasons. Ravens on sap-filled branches, bells of laughter, Italian skies, ripe corn and buckwheat, hay stacks, and a sunlit steppe evoke the golden splendor and mood of the Russian soul in summer.
A Louisville Courier Journal item notes a playful moment where a resident quotes romantic verse yet proclaims a season for snowball chucking and engages in a light bom bardment amid winter weather.
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