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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1912
Page
8
A traveler on Oahu explores banana growth in Hawaii noting the plant’s rapid life cycle from tall stalk to fruiting stalks. He explains hands of flowers forming banana clusters, the leaf coverings, and how each hand becomes a green banana bunch ready to eat, contrasting tropical abundance with temperate fruit.
The article describes unusual nuptials in Northern India where a cow and calf are part of the ceremony with water shared by the couple and priest receiving them as fee. In Banquey a sharp knife makes a small leg incision for blood transfer between bride and groom, followed by a brief religious form.
A Scottish nobleman with temperance principles hosts dinner for tenants. Milk and aerated water are served, but a farmer secretly adds rum to another's milk. The unsuspecting man drinks the glass dry and says, What a cop Tammas.
Lord Deas presided as a courtroom whiffed with tobacco prompted a search for the source of smoke. The lead judge suspected the lawyers room, but the bar argued against it. An Irishman later admitted his pipe foully sparked a fire in his jacket lining, revealing the tale.
A historical summary traces the decline of Rome the Byzantine Empire the moguls in India Poland and Venice. It notes Rome collapsed under barbarians the east fell to Turkish conquest Venice ruled by the council of ten and Napoleon’s rise. Pearson's Weekly.
A French physician prescribes hot onion poultices for pneumonia. The method uses six to ten chopped onions, rye meal and vinegar to form a paste, heated and applied in a cotton bag to the chest, with repeated reheatings every few minutes. The remedy reportedly cures the illness in hours with three or four applications.
A humorist boards a railway carriage with a fearful woman who fears collisions. She asks about accidents and death, while he calmly replies that he is said to die on the scaffold. She then changes carriages at the next station.
The Langworth family on a corner lot faced constant street traffic for inquiries about residents. To deter visitors the boy Harold hung a sign reading Nobody lives here but us.
A political speaker berates the government as a heckler cries “You’re wrong, sir!” repeatedly from the back of the hall. The exchange grows tense with the critic removing his hat, his bald head cited as a joke by the London Globe.
Jackson corrected his censure after realizing the cadet’s solution was correct. He departed at once in winter night to the institute and apologized openly to the student for the earlier rebuke.
A young man declares his love for a rich man's daughter and pleads to marry her. The father asks which daughter he wants. The suitor responds he will leave the choice to him, then a shop clerk jokes about finding a doll named Barbara.
The star chamber, once a royal court in Westminster, was famed for its stars on the ceiling and its broad powers but could not impose death. abolished in 1641 after Charles I was sentenced to beheaded there. Contemporary warnings note arsenic appearing in foods and beverages via glucose based products, with the liver offering limited protection.
A northern visitor recalls asking Steve a plantation resident many questions and receiving only the reply Yahs, sah. When pressed to say no, Steve again answers Yahs, sah, illustrating southern taciturnity through a single habitual response.
S. B. Dodge repapered and carpeted his Confectionery Store making it the towns most attractive stand. He invites ice cream and fountain trade and announces the shop at 602 First St. in town.
Help seeking notice for 100 hop pickers by John P Rafizeau near Dundee. Duration about 3 to 4 weeks with good camping and water. Picking starts around September 2. Write or phone Red 162.
Dry fir and hard maple wood offered in small lots at 3 1 2 dollars per cord. Second growth fir dry split at 3 dollars per cord. Orders over five cords discounted to 3 1 4 dollars per cord. Send orders by postcard.
A meeting will be held at McMinnville city hall on Thursday evening August 22 to organize an association to promote the poultry industry in Yamhill County and plan a winter Poultry Exhibit. All interested in the poultry business are urged to attend and participate.
Dr C res writing in Travel and Oration outlines Vedda beliefs about death. Every dead person becomes a yaka within days, with differences between ordinary deaths and heroic individuals. The noya ku are kin who may receive offerings of rice and coconut milk as a sign of ongoing bond and protection. The kapurale calls the yaka, who speaks through a possessed person to guide kin and hunting directions. Rice is eaten after the spirit departs.
A Boston Post note describes a modern safe shown at the Bank of England touted as burglar proof. The device lowers into a subvault of masonry and concrete, is bolted down with steel lugs, and secured by a triple time lock. Only when the lugs unlock at a set time can the safe be raised, the article stating walls ten feet thick would thwart any break-in.
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