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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
3
A fragment from Frederick Trevor Hill's Lincoln the Lawyer recounts Lincoln as a junior partner who returns to rough farm labor yet irks employers with study habits and polemics. The tale contrasts practical field work with his unusual habit of reading while following the team.
A minstrel enters a town debate with a wall sitter on sassafras bark. The old man declares most are gossips except Dan who is dead and has been for a month shaping the town’s rumor mill.
In early Chickasaw country Davy Crockett era., Old Man Giddins travels toward Arkansas and is declared dead by court. Years later he reappears, tries to claim his property, but the court insists he is extinctus de functus and must take a new name to earn property. The judge dismisses the claim and invites a wrestling match.
A man who had been shooting on Cape Cod returns by train. A stranger sharing his seat asks about his sport. The sportsman says they bagged one hundred head with two guns. The astonished stranger asks if they used double barreled guns.
A Philadelphia Press quip notes most men can serve on a jury but a skilled lawyer sits upon a witness, highlighting courtroom wit and the legal craft.
A compilation notes the longest clock pendulum from the Diffel Tower, a 30 mile Grand Falls expanse, 31 languages in the Philippines, a costly Mahomet tomb, £2,000,000 in diamonds and rubles, steamers totaling 65,034, etc. It cites a French heart model, Greenland birch tiny tree, Chinese Siam poll tax, automatic German billiard tables, swallows saved in Switzerland, and vast U.S. hides and skins imports. It closes with a magazine tally of deaths from adulterated foods worldwide and related health officer reports.
Henry W. Sage recalls John B. Ostrander whose elms donated to Cornell provide shade and a lasting memorial. Ostrander, after years in Canada and Michigan, offered thirty to forty elm trees from his woods to be planted along East Avenue, to be known as the Ostrander Elms. The donor hoped the trees would stand as a shade for future generations.
The article asks what became of a woman described as old fashioned who leaned on her escort's arm, implying a change in manners or status. It notes curiosity about her fate and social standing within the wider society depicted.
A city guest questions Jim Manton’s popularity and chances in Boston while Hobbs artsy muses on daily routes and a handy grocer helper. A pastor quotes an injunction about charity, with Brother Spotcash replying he would obey and sell all he has to the poor.
A Philadelphia Press item records a playful exchange about when a knothole is not whole. Pokely and Jokeley discuss the riddle part by part, noting that only partial knot breaks wholeness.
In dialogue from the Cleve land Leader the old father orders the persistent visitor ejected. His daughter pleads that hints and rudeness failed to deter him. He insists the next visit should be met with song to drive him off.
A Paris automobile building firm is about to complete a 110 horsepower gasoline submarine boat for the French Davy, signaling a bold advance in underwater propulsion technology and civilian marine design.
An ad copy touts permanent cure after first day’s use of Dr Kline’s Great Nerve Cure from Kline Ltd Philadelphia. It asserts relief from nervousness and urges trust in a trial treatment. Also mentions Piso’s Cure and a cough remedy priced at 2% cents.
Fragmentary cigarette era humor mentions Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Cat for teething. The Cleveland Plain Dealer quips about an auto, a fast chauffeur, and a misreading of a vehicle in a playful exchange. The excerpt hints at periodchildcare products and automotive humor.
The article notes a mouse in Africa that makes a ten foot leap. Mrs Stubb Gracious remarks this explains why explorers wives rarely accompany them.
Do not use catarrh ointments with mercury as they injure the sense of smell and the whole system. Only prescriptions from reputable physicians should be followed. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo contains no mercury and is taken internally.
A humorous aside about a man named Blower wearing a fine overcoat after winning money gambling. The joke notes his wife’s reaction and reveals she earned the funds through playing bridge.
An authority estimates the earth's surface at 196 791 984 square miles, about 53 000 000 square miles of land and the rest water. Pillsbury's Vitos appears in many ads as the ideal breakfast food available at up-to-date groceries.
The Cleveland Leader quotes a jab about Eddie Ott and his allies seeking a seat in Congress to let him talk politics freely without being heard. The remark frames Ott’s supporters as pushy, portraying their aim as political self-serving.
The Carthage Press reports a Joplin youth asked his Sunday school teacher last Sunday whether the James boys authored the Book of James.
Shake in Allen's Foot-Ease powder to prevent blistering and aching feet. Sample mailed free from Helen Olmsted in Le Roy New York with address provided.
In a colloquial exchange cited from the Philadelphia Ledger, Deacon Skinner presses for a price on a horse while Farmer Shrade shows cautious interest asking what it would take. The dialogue underscores a straightforward bargaining moment presented in historical phrasing.
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