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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1912
Page
2
The Bijou offers nightly four reel features with illustrated song by W H S Foster. Mrs Mabel Foster, grade of Trinity College of Music, London, provides piano with W H Foster on drums.
Hillsboro city council awarded another street paving contract using bitulithic pavement. Despite cheaper bids, residents favor the proven material and the council originally named bitulithic for Hillsboro streets. Multiple property transfers accompany the meeting summary.
The Warren Construction Company lands the contract to pave Perkins avenue district and complete Colfax's paving, becoming the exclusive firm for town paving as bitulithic streets prove satisfactory and deter other bidders.
Owing to the large award for city street paving, Idaho Falls awarded the contract to a Portland firm. The council acted after taxpayer support and a ten year positive record of bitulithic in other cities.
Edwin Allen and wife Martha Chapman and Lenora Chapman transfer 138 acres in East Bedwell with 2 acre exclusion for 17500 dollars. Edward Howe and Herman Heinman sell to City of Carlton right of way for pipeline across west and southwest sections 17 13er 5 west for 2 50. Minerva Brown and others sell to CN Marsh Lot 5 in Block 3 City Park Add Newberg for 75 dollars. TE Brown and Ruth Wise sell to City of Carlton 5 acres and right of way across set of section 18 to 3 sr 5 w for 400 dollars. John Bunn and wife to John W and Sarah E McCullough small tract at Fifth and H streets McMinnville for 330 dollars. Investment Company to Charles and Minerva R Dunn Lots 3 and 4 Block 47 Oak Park Add McMinnville for 25 dollars. F W Fenton and wife and Hicks C Fenton and Florence Neely wife sell the southeast quarter of section 14 to 2 sr 4 w for 10 dollars.
Iazel M. Jordan aged 20 and Harvey Hodson aged 23 obtained marriage licenses. The notice records their ages and partners for the forthcoming ceremony.
A veteran recalls the War's darkest moment at Kenne Saw Mountain where Confederate fortifications loomed and an order to scale the peak at dawn nearly doomed the men. The panic, fear, and last minute reversal under darkness shaped his memory of survival and escape.
A New York Press writer recalls Dr. Joseph Le Conte explaining vision blind spots to a class with two coins. He asked students to focus on both coins then move them, illustrating blind spots and noting an old joke: some people have no blind spot for money.
The London Chronicle notes that child prodigies like Macaulay read endlessly from age three and began a universal history compendium by seven. By eight he drafted a Christian tract and a poem, while Browning finished a verse volume by twelve and painted at age two.
An Irish worker fell six stories to a cellar after slipping on a scaffold. He survived with no broken bones but a groggy state. A doctor offered water to revive him. The exchange turns comic as the patient asks about whisky and a father leads his son on a mock hunting trip.
A quotation contrasts dispatch with hurry, arguing that true dispatch is deliberate and purposeful while hurry is blind and wasteful. It uses analogies of a hornet and aunt, a treewheel, and quotes Josh Billings on planning a course before acting.
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