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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1911
Page
7
Advertisement notes top quality lumber at ground prices for holiday projects. Emphasizes customers can order now and pay no more than for cheaper stock, promising superior grade without extra cost.
A compilation of transfers including Sarah J Agnew to H L Russell for lots and acres in Dundee Amity Lodge and several other deeds across sections townships and ranges. Names include Anna Alwes F W Myer JH Bird Peter Carlyle Frank Carney Anastasia Dowd John Henderson Cochran and Ernest Tucker with varying acreages and consideration figures cited.
A long list of land and property transfers is detailed, naming individuals, spouses, and entities such as Hazel H Groth Eleanor T McLean John Hammerly E T Clark Haskell and wf Ch Evenson Theo G Herah Martha P McKern Eunice Woolworth J R Hollister C T Croddy and many others. Amounts range from small fractional acres to 100 acres with prices from 10 to 95000 dollars. Locations include Newberg Carlton McMinnville and surrounding sections in T and R designations.
Readers note marriages at ages 23 to 27 and 18 to 21 with names Jeanie Bristow Melvin Johnson Julia Brown Leo Ostrander. Quips quote a bathwater remark from Boston Iris and a divorce-lawyer gag from Chicago Daily News. A final weather quip closes the fragment.
The article recounts seventeenth and eighteenth century use of casting lots to punish soldiers. Examples include Winchester 1645 where six guilty men faced a lottery to pick one for punishment, Tangier 1663 1665 where dice on a drumhead determined execution, and a Dutch English conflict where blank drew safety while black lot meant hanging. A bold English soldier balked at death, offered money for another draw, and was spared while others faced the fatal helmet.
Meredith recalls a shared home with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others. He describes a noon breakfast where five slabs of bacon and five eggs on a dish were served while Rossetti appeared in his morning gown, eating with theatrical gusto. Meredith says the scene was unbearable and he paid three months' rent to avoid a repeat.
Two Chicago men discuss a third’s rise from a first lucky strike. He bought 10,000 dozen items at a low cost, stored them, and sold them for more than 300 percent profit, becoming the cornerstone of his fortune. The remark ends with a proverb about the hens.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote extols a son who recently graduated from a new academy. He is praised for excellent delivery and is reported to have a large salary with a rising pay next year, marking his ascent to the big league.
The article describes Chinese housing patterns with towns showing brick buildings and tiled roofs while many homes are wooden. Glass is rare for common people yet appearing among the well to do, and the laboring classes live in mud or wattle huts.
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