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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1911
Page
7
In the twilight of Oliver Wendell Holmes life, he and Rob ert C. Winthrop visited the U S Senate. Evarts explained crowded galleries and strict rules. He offered them employment as his private secretaries to gain floor seats.
A bird fancier narrates his struggle teaching a canary to fly downward. He notes the difference between freedom and captivity as the bird hesitates to descend, fearing the fall and dangers below.
Uncle Mose Peavey praises Squire Dunkley as a rifle shot able to hit a dollar tossed in the air at fifty yards. Silas agrees, noting the Squire’s keen eye and local fame in this Harper's Weekly excerpt.
A Broadway actor, swept by the spirit of the times, drifts for days and regains consciousness in his own room with a friend by his side. He asks what happened to Wednesday and what day it is, reflecting the odd lapse in time.
A captive pleads for mercy offering to be a slave and cook. the cannibal king considers the offer and shows doubt before deciding his fate.
The readable portion shows a playful exchange between a speaker and a woman about recognition and change. The clipped lines hint at dramatic tension and social interaction within a prose scene.
A Pall Mall Gazette note describes a fleeting dream of a violent scene in which a colleague fights and is hauled away, followed by the colleague recounting a dream invocation involving bulls and buffaloes. The writer suggests telepathic link through dream sharing and calls for further investigation.
A delegation asked for funding to dredge a stream, meeting President Grant who recalled crossing the stream in a prior campaign. He paused, then suggested road work instead, proposing to macadamize the stream rather than dredge it.
A Boston anecdote shows two men debating whether two can live as cheaply as one. One says before marriage he believed so, the other concedes that after marriage they had to. The observation illustrates how people adapt to conditions, as discussed in Lippincott's.
The bishop praised the churchwarden, an old farmer, for his part in the church’s restoration. The churchwarden replied that while he appreciated the sermon, he recalled past sins and doubted the lords trust had been a wildishness in youth.
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