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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1911
Page
7
An observer recalls a Western town in Montana where a performer faced a hostile audience. He describes entering a skating rink theater, being escorted by two men, and marching through a crowd that fired pistols in the air as the train departed at 4:30 AM.
A Portuguese officer begs for a title of war so the fort commander can grant the salute to the British ship as it approaches the landing place. The scene includes a natty gig near the fort and the captain’s bridge as the officer pleads for proper honors.
A fragment discusses a joke about daisy pie from Shakespeare and its later reference in Lamb's Side Lights on Charles Lamb. The conversation imagines a rhubarb scene and a character rejecting daisy pie as unusual. The piece notes the phrase appears in the song at the end of Love's Labor's Lost.
Carlyle many years ago described Tennyson to Emerson on August 5 1844. He praised his appearance noting rough dusty hair hazel eyes a massive yet delicate face and Indian like complexion. He described Tennysons voice as metallic musical and capable of loud laughter and piercing wail.
A playful exchange from the Houston Post frames a broken engagement as a financial mismatch. The dialogue suggests both sides disclosed costs and income, leading to a gentle dissolution rather than a dramatic split. The item reads as a light society note on romance and economics.
Ancient beliefs held the Mediterranean as a perilous inland sea with monsters and magic islands. Romans and Greeks imagined a briny dense ocean beyond, with a towering brass statue at Gibraltar and a pillar signaling danger. Sailors feared entangling weeds and sluggish seas, a view persisting until Columbus's era.
The London Bystander reports Mr. Melville’s week stay ended with a haunted chamber prank. A door opened and a light touch accompanied by weighted objects pressed on his legs while he slept. After repeated deposits on the bed he awoke terrified. Dawn revealed the butler, sleeping, had spread a dinner service of twenty four converts across the four posted bed.
In dialogue the physician logs a patient’s pulse and temperature and quizzes the flickering fever pattern. The patient jokes that during fever days his head burns and on ague days his body trembles, making it hard to form an opinion.
The piece discusses why rhyming to girl is difficult due to its varied pronunciation. It notes that it is not gall or gell but Gurrel in two syllables. A Scotsman’s reaction to the national poet’s name being a dissyllable is quoted with humorous local flavor.
Edmund Yates recalls Mr George Jones a painter of battle pieces who once prided himself on a Wellington likeness and dressed the part. A passerby joked it must be great for people in the street to greet him as your grace. Jones replies no one ever speaks to me for Mr Jones.
A man asked for his hair to be removed completely after he sat in a barber chair. The barber confirmed the request with a simple “Off.” indicating removal of hair.
A traveler recalls in Pisa a peculiar guide who hypnotized listeners with a melodious echo from the baptistery near the Campo Santo. The guide boasted of being unique for producing the echo and recounted how President Millard Fillmore praised the echo, ending with the claim he was ruined by his fame for howling.
An uptown engineering project required one worker to hold another on a rope halfway down a deep well. Patrick kept the rope tight during the dangerous descent, then momentarily looked away. Terence suddenly shouted to pull him up, threatening to cut the rope if not rescued.
The Argonaut recalls that Paris was founded by settlers arriving by galleys on the Seine. They seized the island later named Baris, Greek for a boat once used on the Nile, a symbol reflected in Paris’s ancient galley coat of arms.
An influential Philadelphia churchwoman complains to her pastor that a neighbor in the pew behind disrupts her devotions with his singing. The pastor ponders a delicate solution and finally suggests he might join the choir himself.
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