Signs of God s Israel and Local Socials Note
A religious poem by George Howie and Miss Madge Morrison leaves Portland for a grippe attack. Local excerpts report Miss Mary Jane at the State University in Seattle and Rex Cannery shareholders at Newberg for the yearly officer election. Mrs A H Dean hosted a gathering for Miss Mary Jones before her Seattle departure.
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C. A. Cavell
A.M. Davis
Newberg
J. W. Winters
Henry Stratess
Portland
Lloyd Brickley
Hallie Wiley
Scotts Mills
Mary Jane
Seattle
State University
Rex
Co-operative Cannery
A.H. Dean
Mary Jones
Frank Paris
Notable Local Visit and Family News Recap
Former Senator J. L. Hoskins of Newberg visited his son the postmaster on Saturday. Miss Mabel Miller of Newberg attended Newton-Derby nuptials, sister to Mrs. A. M. Sherwood. A letter from Mrs. Wm W. Clark, Newberg, says she is well and enjoying winter. she is formerly Mrs. M. J. Durham and now lives on Route 1 where Mr. Clark runs a dairy ranch.
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J. L. Hoskins
Newberg
Postmaster Hoskins
Mabel Miller
Newton-Derby
A. M. Sherwood
Rag carpet weaving by Joseph Stephens
Rag carpet and rug weaving by Joseph Stephens advertised on Dayton road opposite David Martin place with location noted.
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Joseph Stephens
Dayton Road
David Martin Place
First Skyscraper Beginnings in New York and Earlier Plans
The text notes an early skyscraper at 50 Broadway designed by Bradford Lee Gilbert, but references earlier efforts by Jacques Perret of Chambery Savoy as the credited planner of an eleven story building. Perret's concept described a 106 by 140 foot structure with 12 foot thick walls, intended to house about 500 people.
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New York
Broadway
Bredford Lee Gilbert
Jacques Perret
Chambery
Savoy
Perret
Indelible Blueprint Ink Substitutes on Paper and Fabric
A column reviews an ordinary blueprint powder as a cheap durable alternative for permanent marking. It explains applying by hot iron or washing to fix, producing a blue shade, and notes glycerine may be added for stamping. Tannin can erase traces if desired.
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Anne
Unique Manchester man adopts unheard name Gagadig Gigadeb
An elderly Manchester resident born John Smith sought to escape mistaken identity tied to common names. After repeated fear of being confused with other John Smiths, a banking embezzlement report misattribution spurred him to reinvent himself as Gagadig Gigadeb, a name many say he truly achieved.
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Manchester
England
Gagadig Gigadeb
John Smith
John Smiths
The Value of Calm Living Over Constant Excitement
The article states that people who stay calm live longer and conserve vitality, while excitement wastes energy and raises the pulse. It notes excitement harms both physical and mental health, though occasional excitement can help slow pulse when naturally low, urging a steady, tranquil bodily state.
Marriage of Adele Sparks Travel Efficiency
A witty remark credits Adele with marrying a shipping clerk to speed her travels. The judge notes the joke hinges on the clerk packing trunks, implying practical time saving. The quip plays on leverage of spousal labor for global mobility.
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Adele
Improvised chat ends in misread romance quarrel note
The fragment records a curt exchange where Miss Prue Dent Papa accuses improvidence and vetoes a marriage. The conversation ends with confusion and a tepid farewell as one speaker laments financial hardship and inability to proceed.
Touch That Failed Mrs Winke
In the Somerville Journal a curious exchange centers on an attempt to touch for money that backfired. The dialogue quotes Mrs Winke and Mr Winks with a dismissive note on the failed attempt.
Those Husbands Whose Trickster Jests Stir Up Quiet Gossip
A playful dialogue fragment shows a man recalling a neighbor's quip about where a wife might keep street car fare, the other neighbor replying with a sly answer and a lighthearted admission of wanting to pay.
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Wanabe
Fragmentary Quote Reflects on Love and Choice
A damaged line contemplates love and employment, suggesting tension between affection and inability to love. The misread wording points to a puzzle-like fragment attributed to Mee terlinctk. The fragment hints at emotional conflict within a personal or literary context.
Spreading Adder Known as Bluffer and Poseur
The spreading adder is described as a sly creature that pretends to be dead when trapped. It can hiss contort and roll over to avoid danger and many believe it is poisonous, though it cannot harm a person if picked up by the head. The reptile, about thirty inches long, is reddish brown with blotches and lives in dry woods and sandy hillsides feeding on toads and insects. It is also called the blowing viper or the hognosed adder.
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Ming
Philadelphia
Split Tips Leave Waiters Poor in Chicago Trade Dish
An excerpt from the Chicago Tribune discusses a veteran waiter's view that servers rarely keep tips. He explains a fivefold division among head waiters captains cooks and others, noting risk of discipline if tips are hoarded. He cites typical weekly earnings around six dollars.
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Obiago Tribune
Strange postage knowledge noted by a clerk
A New York Sun excerpt explains how letter postage works in practice. It describes a letter with three one cent stamps that wrongly used just one extra cent, when the rate requires a two cent increase for weight over an ounce.
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New York Sun
Jenkins Ear Sparked A War In Early 1730s
The Jenkins Ear episode began in 1731 when an English ship was boarded by a Spanish guardship. Captain Robert Jenkins had an ear torn off, prompting appeals to Parliament in 1738. The dispute over the incident helped trigger war and was later verified by admiralty records as of 1890.
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Jenkins’ Ear
Robert Jenkins
Ior Theanvenues
Ton Pardo
Jenkins
Admiralty
Definition of an Ohm and standard units
An Ohm is defined by an international congress as a unit with a mass of 223.0248 grains and a height of 41.8503 corresponding to the temperature of melting ice. In the Bureau of Standards at Washington four standard ohms are made and kept so well that their recent tested average deviation from the mean value was less than .0000 ohms.
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Internationsl Congress On
Bureau of Standards
Wash
O&m
Muelo and Dancing Dance Music Generations
A remark on the idea that writing successful dance music across generations does not require the family to be dancers themselves. The statement notes three or four generations producing music while none could perform a dance step.
Musical Lessons in Pronunciation Peculiar to Wagner Chopin and Cello
A fragmentary note on how mispronouncing Wagner as Wagner and Chopin as hello leads to a sense of complete understanding. The text blends language quirks with a playful take on musical names and identity.
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Wagner
Chopin
Cello
Una
Eleke
Quote About Troubles From Milwaukee Journal
A fragment quotes a Milwaukee Journal remark on how some people face troubles that are smaller or larger than themselves and how others bear burdens greater than their own.
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Milwaukee Journal
Can You Tell a Story's Author by Sex
A reader recounts a dinner experiment where nine participants guessed the author’s gender from twenty text extracts. Of 180 guesses, all but eight were correct, yet none could define what distinguishes male from female writing despite high accuracy.
Inflammable Bombs and Zeppelin Incendiaries
The article details the construction of incendiary bombs used by Zeppelins. It describes a conical bomb ten inches wide at the base wrapped in tarred rope with a metal apex handle and a flat base cup holding a pierced funnel with ignition device. The funnel is filled with thermite which ignites to molten metal at around five thousand degrees, dispersing by concussion and producing smoke from padding and steam-like vapors.
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Zeppelin
Hazardous Film Waste Causes Nauseous Fumes
The Philadelphia Press notes that certain film shavings expose workers to nauseous fumes, as celluloid clippings are sometimes added and a small amount of gasoline is used in processing or cleaning operations.
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Philadelphia Press
Buildings and Their Many Flaws as Described by a Judge
A judge critiques buildings as contrivances of trouble, despair and pleasure, noting they are built of brick mortar cement wood steel and mortgages. He warns against building on sand, observes public versus private use, and laments lack of foundation amid risks from rats fires earthquakes and rent collectors.
Uranus Found by Sir William Herschel in Bath 1781
The British planet Uranus was discovered in Bath in 1781 by Sir William Herschel who became astronomer to George II. Its great distance and dense atmosphere obscure rotation and axis, while inhabitants if any would endure near zero temperatures and a year of over 80,000 days, suggesting tax exemptions.
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Bath
William Herschel
Georgeii
London Mall
Bronze Bull Invention of Perillus Stirs Ancient Tyranny
In 570 B C Athens reputedly saw Phalaris of Agrigentum praise a brazen bull devised by Perillos of Athens to roast victims inside a hollow chamber. The device vented screams like a mad bull, and Phalaris is said to have killed the inventor before the tyrant’s later downfall amid a popular uprising.
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Perillae
Perillus
Athens
Phaiirs
Agrigentum
Phalaris
Phalaria
Venison cuts and dishes described in old style text
The passage explains venison parts and their best uses. It notes the haunch is prime, the shoulder or neck suitable for many dishes, the loin as chops and cutlets, and the breast best for soups ragouts and pies.
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