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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1915
Page
7
Fit Distret. Wills C Hawley Salem Second District N J Sinnott The Dalles Third District C N McArthur Portland.
Joby B Barnes recalls Adelaide Neilson born Elizabeth Ann Brown in 1848 Yorkshire as she staged tears on cue and faced a protracted clash with a London audience. The tale recalls humble beginnings as a mill hand and barmaid and a dramatic curtain row that halted a play.
Rules of the Game argues industrial success is earned by personal qualities such as sobriety, industry, saving, and sound judgment, while society keeps the bottom by not rewarding those who display these traits. J Laurence Laughlin cites that neglect of these rules keeps capable men down.
The London Spectator notes the Channel Islands use local Jersey and Guernsey coinage while allowing English and French coins to circulate. Guernsey copper coins cap at a penny in value though pound notes exist, and travelers can face complex French Guernsey payment math when returning from France.
The London Standard recalls Tripoli’s notorious private fleet shaped a century ago by renegade Scot Peter Lyste who, after leaving an English ship, joined Islam, wed a pasha kin, and became lord high admiral of the fleet. He committed mischief and met a grim end.
In Turkish gravesites water basins are carved into marble tombs and filled for birds. The practice appears in cemeteries and reflects cultural customs surrounding the dead in Turkey.
A tussle of voices centers on a tattered tourist who claims to be recuperating from a sentence of six months at hard labor. A hard featured housewife challenges the idea of recent work while noting fatigue and irony in a Birmingham setting.
A reflective note explains how the expression in the dumps echoes a long history of hardship. It ties linguistic habits to past struggles and collective memory, showing how language preserves distress across generations.
A Boston Journal item depicts a newcomer asking about payment to a boarder and a landlady sharply replying to the question with a pointed inquiry about timing. The exchange captures social etiquette and tension in a boarding house scene.
A brief note on the principle that the highest form of charity is aiding charitable organizations themselves. The statement emphasizes support for nonprofit groups as essential to welfare and community progress.
The article explains ganglions as swellings of the tendon sheath near the wrist, often harmless but sometimes tuberculous. It describes symptoms, typical locations, and several treatment methods such as pressure bursting, tight bandaging with a coin, blistering, iodine painting, gradual absorption, or surgical removal and scraping if other methods fail.
A 1699 episode shows diplomats from Austria Turkey Russia England and others clamoring for the best seat during the Karlowitz peace talks. Emperor Eugene had a circular council chamber built with personal entrances and seats to satisfy pride, and the peace was signed after several weeks of delay caused by diplomat egos.
Constitution Island lies in the Hudson opposite West Point and covers 300 acres of dense forest. It formed part of Revolutionary defenses with ten breastworks built by Kosciuszko and hosted Washingtons life guard in 1783. In 1808 Miss Anna Bartlett Warner, its owner, along with Mrs. Russell Sage, gifted it to the U S government, and it now sits within the military reservation.
In a late nineteenth century British election a candidate secured victory due to an umbrella mishap. He left his umbrella at every house he canvassed, and the returning voter rewarded honesty with a suitable prize.
A Baltimore American quips that a man across the way is framed as a scalp hunter, joking that he is a hair raising specialist seeking customers. The playful line plays on wordplay about hair care and fear.
A playful exchange about vacations and domestic oversight. The New York Sun quote notes a pun on going over books and personal affairs during trips. The light remark contrasts business scrutiny with home life.
A fragment quotes a harsh remark about exaggeration, attributed to La' Harpe. The line reflects skepticism toward overstatement and aims at caution in rhetoric.
A fragmentary reminiscence highlights sculptor George Tinworth and others like Grinling Gibbons Patrick Naswyth and George Morland noted for remarkable talent despite illiteracy or hardship. It cites Ruskin praise and anecdotes of poverty, deafness, and self reliance.
The excerpt presents the Spanish wit Quevedo claiming rules to avoid aging. He jokes that sun in summer and rain in winter, constant activity, and frugal habits prevent growing old. He adds cold meat and cold drinks aid health, promising agelessness.
Sir Augustus enters the tailor’s shop and declares he will also order clothes from the tailor. The tailor pleads no hurry as the knight, calm and royal, requests future clothing arrangements for three years.
A restaurant scene features a stuttering patron who asks for beef and a stuttering waiter. A guest, misreading the exchange as mockery, lunges at the waiter, but another patron explains the server also stutters, revealing shared speech impairment prior to his cure.
A Parisian recounts a frugal lodging episode describing an innkeeper’s tepid response to payment. The brief anecdote captures tension in a district during a short stay with no money exchanged.
A quotation reflecting on the limits of human art and industry compared to nature's creations. It asserts that nature's works outstrip art in beauty and value, and that masterful pieces emerge from genuine masters. The fragment cites a line attributed to Homer.
In Home Life In China Imac Taylor Headland notes Chinese superstition labeling Westerners as devils. A Canton British consul learns the blunt reason—the Chinese say foreigners resemble devils in appearance. Boxer era placards and verse spread the idea further, with lines claiming the devils look unlike humans and their eyes are of a certain color.
The New York Sun reports on a fad of precise hat weighing among cranks who demand exact headwear weights. Players in the hat trade use scales to settle debates and satisfy buyers, noting many men switch from heavier winter slouches to lighter summer straw hats or vice versa, with weights often shifting by two to four ounces.
The piece cites A and Middleton in Sailor and Beach comber claiming Samoan infants are prettier and highly intelligent. It notes babies swim by three months and can talk run and sing by one year, then contrasts with English norms regarding indulged children and ridicule of pampered infants.
The name John Bull is traced to Dr Arbuthnot's 1721 satire Law Is a Bottomless Pit. Washington Irving describes the figure as a sturdy corpulent old man in a red waistcoat with leather breeches and a wooden cudgel common in Napoleonic caricatures.
A quoted passage from Mother Machree by James B. Connolly in Scribner's features a speaker addressing themes of maternal sacrifice and enduring love. The dialogue contrasts worn hearts of mothers with concern for their children, voiced as a moral exhortation.
A Kansas City Journal quotation notes marital frustration with a man seeking to anger his wife by flirting with another woman. It adds that asking another woman to sew on a button would infuriate her further.
A terse date window marks events from December 16, 1915 to January 20, 1916 with limited context in the readable text. The fragment emphasizes a span between two calendar points without detailing specific actions or names.
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