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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1914
Page
7
The notice invites readers to inspect lumber products for quality and value. It emphasizes careful examination, encouraging customers to compare grades, finishes, and price points to ensure wise purchase decisions.
A string of brief items reports a night fire destroying property valued at 12000 in Oregon. Rabies prevention underway in Portland and Medford, Panama Canal openings celebrated in Roseburg and towns with car horns and fires. A body found near Troutdale prompts murder inquiries. Deer hunting rules tighten due to forest fire danger. Columbia highway bid date set for August 26 with Hood River county bonds. Oregon milestones include pensions for 1878 Bannock War captain William W. Oglesby and homestead leave law passage. Cadet regiments rated Class C for San Francisco Panama exposition. Efforts to route the national highway movement unify Idaho and eastern Oregon towns. Clackamas hatchery improvements receive 165000 funding. Hass Detective Agency tracks embezzler Oslin N. Jackson to Grants Pass. Bobcat bounty removal announced. cougar and wolf bounties unchanged. Three youths caught setting forest fires near Siuslaw River.
A fragment from Atlantic Monthly recounts how female spiders lure and devour male suitors. The piece frames courtships as perilous, noting a male’s risk in seeking a mate and the female’s predatory cleverness in a macabre natural ritual.
A London woman carried a fragile Arab glass cup in a crowded omnibus. An expert valued it at about $2000 for the British Museum, but she sent it to auction where fierce bidding by two collectors pushed the final price to $6500.
The practice of placing red labeled notes with watchmaker names inside loosened cases arose when thick watches with removable cases were carried. Cleanings involved inserting these labels at the bottom, sometimes with maxims or verses on the outside, a habit that led to this tradition.
The readable text shows fragmented phrases about cases devices and a ten page paper describing road design or material. It mentions watch five of the material roads and an exchange note. The passage is garbled and lacks clear facts or named entities.
The text notes mustard as an ancient condiment used as aid and medicine in Solomon's era and by Asians, Normans, and Anglo-Saxons. It mentions mustard prepared from ground seeds and young leaves, thriving worldwide and valued as food seasoning.
A theater magnate and a soap millionaire discuss advertising. The actor-manager declares posters discontinued and relies on newspaper announcements alone, asserting readers are theatergoers. The soap tycoon agrees, noting he stopped all ads except press coverage, claiming nonreaders skip his soap.
The article describes the French system of exile to the offshore islands near Guiana, including Devil's Island, where incorrigible criminals endure brutal conditions. Guards have wide power, escape attempts are common, and inmates range from murderers to thieves. Prisoners face malaria, wild beasts, and hostile natives, with many plotting to flee.
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