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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1912
Page
6
An extraordinary duel over a romance ended not with swords but with poison pills devised by a doctor assistant. After a coin toss, two pellets swallowed separately failed, then both men took a pill together and one died within seconds on the grass.
An old bird dealer cites a common canary problem nervousness, caused by mice that steal seed. He recounts two canaries falling into a frightened state and eventual decline until the cage was moved to keep mice away, after which the birds recovered. The warning comes from the New Orleans States.
A Toledo Blade note observes how a desk or table reflects its owner as a neat, orderly space on departure with ash trays, books, ink, and papers in place, but returns reveal chaos with items displaced in a telling contrast.
Pliny claims a diamond rated 80 hard would shatter an anvil and hammer after a single strike. He also tells of a Cyprus island lion with emerald eyes that terrified fish, leading fishermen to replace the eyes with glass and lure the fish back into nets.
A dialogue from Fluegende Blatter reports a speaker calculating monthly earnings. He cites 110 marks salary, rent unpaid 40 marks, milkman 30 marks, butcher 40 marks, and loans 80 marks from friends, totaling about 250 marks monthly.
Comical exchange features Maria noting a cat’s habit of leaping onto a reader’s lap. The speaker jokes about buying something at the drugstore for the tired feline, followed by a playful bang. The item captures light local humor from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
An artist notes a small creative impulse preserved in crayon. A brief exchange shows a playful sketch and a quick aside about a longstanding assumption, captured in informal handwriting. The fragment hints at a humorous or thoughtful exchange between creator and observer.
A fragment from Chicago News hints at a riddle involving Hils daughter and Papa, noting familiarity before marriage and a missing mother figure. The text presents a playful exchange about connections between the speaker, Hils, and a father figure.
In a damp tenement Scribbler dodges a reckoning for six weeks in arrears rent while the quarrelling Stumpkins family advise him not to pay. Mrs Stumpkins warns Scribbler to withhold payment as the couple remains estranged. The puzzle asks what their first question will be when they begin speaking again.
The Chicago Record Herald describes electric ions as the smallest man made unit of electricity, capable of passing through a copper bar at 186000 miles per second. It explains ions relate to hydrogen by a factor of one to ten to the seventeenth power, a million million-millionth.
In a London Globe tale, Jim leaves the countryside for London and discovers a glittering sovereign near Euston station. He pockets the coin then meets a blind beggar, whom he helps by giving the sovereign, saying he can see wealth that the man cannot.
In a Maule era case a bullying counsel browbeat an elderly female witness until she was speechless. The judge interjected with a curt remark noting both his fear and the lawyer's intimidation, highlighting courtroom conduct of the time.
In the Malay archipelago a reptile resembling a mythical dragon is described with extending ribed lacee skin forming wings. A frog with spreading feet creates a parachute to glide between trees, and a flying lemur can spread its body like an umbrella to leap and fly long distances between trees.
Miss Swiftly laments men using old pipes while her friend comforts her by kissing her pug. The fragment from Pearson's presents a social moment with sharp humor and a contrast between repulsion and affection.
A bemused exchange features Mrs Blithers asking where to obtain yesterday's sorority resolutions. Silthbers suggests embroidery as a solution, prompting a wry juristic remark about formalities.
An attributed line by Simmons highlights accuracy as essential in honest work.
The article recounts Nansen and Johansen escaping a drifting kalak after a perilous return from the Fram during the North Pole dash. Nansen stripped, swam through icy water, and with Johansen’s aid regained the boats. They survived the harrowing episode and pressed on toward the final march.
A Harper's note says meteoric dust adds about 100 tons daily to Earth, slowly thickening the planet over eons. This mass gain would tend to pull Earth closer to the sun, but increased centrifugal force could counteract it, possibly sending outer planets like Jupiter farther away in the distant past.
The piece recalls eighteenth century milk as a staple in colonial family diets. It notes 1728 Boston discussions on budgeting for bread and milk, and cites how cow numbers raised milk use. It also quotes Higginson and Cotton on milk prices and cheapness in Salem and New England.
A Louisville Courier Journal report describes a husband who mutters and stares blankly, with a doctor concluding the issue lies in him memorizing lodge work. The doctor notes shared lodge affiliation as context.
A mother gives Tommy last guidance before he goes to a party. She instructs him to respond with yes if he wants something and to be polite. Tommy replies he needn't worry about that part.
A Washington Star quip contrasts past and present farming finance. Farmer Corntessel notes modern borrowing shapes fortunes, while earlier lenders viewed debt as luck. The exchange lampoons changing attitudes toward mortgage risk in rural life.
A London Punch quip imagines a new trumpeter sounding cease fire to warn troops in a barracks fire. The joke plays on military commands and the unexpected use of a calm preventive signal.
A Morrison-era line notes that a figure who rises after each fall sometimes rises to remain. The fragment reflects resilience as a recurring theme without specific context or event.
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