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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1911
Page
7
Mrs Geo Waggoner and son Richard visited Portland last week while Theodore Spencer of Thatcher Washington and James Spencer of Portland tour Otterbrook. Mrs Comstock visited Dundee friends and Rev Moore led services. Elsie Tangen won the Chehalem silver medal as five team members visited Dundee for the contest.
A mother and child discuss language origins asking if trans means across and whether transparent implies a cross parent. The exchange touches on meanings and parental patience in a brief domestic moment.
The New York Herald describes Chinese burial rites with details on coffin placement, family altars, mourning by women, professional mourners, and a miniature house for the deceased. It notes the cremation of an image to chase away evil spirits, mourning banners, and a ceremonial hearse with native bearers followed by refreshments for mourners.
An account discusses Sir Herbert Samuel and a tale about a coded message inviting a friend named John to meet, noting its widespread circulation and uncertain origin. The piece cites variations and wonders where Samuel first found the code. The decoded words express a promise to write but an intent to meet rather than use ink.
A humorous exchange features a Yankee and an Englishman debating a man who fell from a twenty story window. The Yankee insists the man was unharmed because he fell inside a jo archange, while the Englishman and observer dismiss the tale as nonsense.
A disciplined mother speaks to Willie in a fragmentary wartime era scene. She plans to feed him a cheerful dinner before delivering punishment afterward, insisting he stays bright and pleasant in the meantime.
A fragment shows a terse dialogue about numbers and truth with quirky character names and a clipped exchange. The passage hints at a surreal mishearing or wordplay between a ready made philosopher and Colonel ee as O pio, ending abruptly with a partial line.
L I Rose explains in Chicago Record-Herald how horsepower relates to kilowatts and generator capacity. He compares engine output to a dynamo rating and defines a horsepower as 550 foot pounds per second, noting humans can briefly exceed this rate while horses and cars differ in sustained power.
A Chicago Record excerpt depicts a witty exchange where one character recalls threats of celestial collapse if promises are not kept. The other responds with feigned regret and humor about letting the moon fall. The dialog reveals playful tension and social mores of the era.
A witty exchange contrasts marriage with independence as a worldly young woman suggests registering at an employment agency rather than marrying a poor man and facing household duties. The Washington Star notes tone.
In a Pittsburgh Post item a dramatic tale recounts an American magnate stranded in the South Pacific for two years among natives. Upon rescue he had accumulated about 3,000,000 clam shells as his lone fortune and souvenir.
The London Opinion quips about misidentifying ostriches as angels, lampooning a critic who labels a group as per fect while clarifying they are not birds but symbolic angels in a satirical tone.
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