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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
3
The speaker rails against reform and jail, lamenting prosperity yet urging punishment. The passage contrasts booming commerce with a call to arrest dissidents, criticizing lenders and mills while urging broad punitive action amid stable plenty.
Practical tips on cooking and sewing from a vintage column. Instructions cover draining vegetables, keeping desserts firm, drying cake pans, selecting fabrics, summer curtains, and fashionable tops. Also includes salad ideas, bead embroidery, and stain removal advice for cranberry jars and coffee stains.
A reader shares a folkloric roster of bid superstitions once common locally. Items include a rooster crow at the front door signaling a visitor, a twig snagging a dress signaling a beau, itching ears or hands predicting talk or marriage, opening an umbrella indoors as bad luck, a worm on a dress predicting a new frock, and seeing the new moon over the left shoulder to attract money. The note adds a reflection on laughter at past beliefs, citing Socrates and future generations.
In Billings Montana a quip links a political editor to climate drift. The exchange compares a newspaper policy to current weather: one day wet, the next dry, illustrating volatile public discourse and press stance.
Poem urges praising a deserving person now to avoid delays and the risk of missing the chance as tomorrow may bring fame and the person may be unavailable to listen. The verse warns against waiting and emphasizes timely encouragement.
A young man and a mathematical maid discuss ages in the conservatory. She poses a paradoxical line about age, saying she will be twice as old as she is now when her sister was as old as she will be then, prompting the suitor to exclaim Never.
The article reports about 10.6 million homeless Americans living in tents, boxcars, huts, and other shelters. It notes Hackensack New Jersey’s five story jail housing families, railroad workers near Toledo occupying discarded cars, and urban tenants pursuing cooperative ownership or 99 year leases to gain homes.
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