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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
5
Standings shown for the $400 piano contest awarded by Newbery Hardware and Plating Co for the week ending Wednesday December 11. Figures compiled by The Graphic and The Evening Telegram through January 1914 indicate top contenders and their scores including the two papers’ tally.
G. O. Keeney, a Progressive candidate, announces his bid for City Recorder in Newbery. He pledges an impartial administration, up to date records and accounts, and running the office efficiently to serve all voters and taxpayers.
The Ladies of Friends church announce their annual holiday sale featuring fancy articles aprons towels cakes pies candies and more. The event starts Saturday December 14 at 10 o'clock at Crede's Market.
The ash tree appears in medieval superstition as a source for love potions and future-gate spells. In Iceland, mountain ash is feared as fuel for hearths, with beliefs that it could bring quarrels or enmity to those gathered around.
A St. Paul Dispatch fragment recounts a little girl on her birthday finding the tiny pearl missing from a ring. She tearfully tells her father she has lost the "little pill" from the ring, causing concern after a recent station incident.
The governor asks his private secretary to decide if a note from Brown comes from his tailor or his legal adviser both named Brown. The note says I have begun your suit Ready to be tried on Tuesday Come in.
A park visitor watched a man feeding ducks with bead bread he broke into bites and tossed to the water. When asked why he fed them that way he said bread cast on the waters would return after his days. He added that if it did not come back he would have a good excuse to sneak a duck.
The chemistry of today traces to ancient alchemy with the philosopher's stone as its dream. Arab scholars in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries are noted as great students of genuine chemistry.
Gounod counsels a rising poet that art deepens with experience likening it to his own shift from Mozart to Mozart and I as he recalls his early youthful views. The note echoes a musician’s growth across ages and self comparison.
The article credits Napoleon with establishing beet sugar as a world industry after blocking British trade. It details beet cultivation in 90,000 acres in France, notes soil benefits from beet residues, and credits beet culture with transforming continental European agriculture and food security. It also includes a Victorian tale about a doctor and a boy from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Scottish lad named Sandy MacDo aged twelve falls from a roof and breaks his leg. his parents carry him home and seek care for the injury.
A country girl seeking work as a tub woman in London marries a brewer who soon dies, leaving her wealth. She remarries, weds Mr. Hyde who rises to become Earl of Clarendon, and they have a daughter who becomes wife of James I and mother to Mary and Anne, queens of England.
A beam of sunlight through a lens on a glass vessel with colored material makes a revolving disk with slits cut to cut the light. The flashes of light and shadow create audible strange sounds heard when the ear is placed to the vessel as the beam falls on it.
A brief Houston Post excerpt contrasts wealth with happiness through a dialogue about wealth not bringing joy. The exchange hints at personal belief and shyness, framing wealth as non transformative in a casual interview-style moment.
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