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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1918
Page
2
An invention found on a captured German Gotha helps raiders aim bombs. A gimballed telescope, a vertical spirit level, and a prism project a view ahead of the aircraft to judge where to release ordnance. Air density and drift can still cause errors in targeting.
Fragmented quote hints at legal phrasing about swearing to tell the truth. The exchange mentions a Louisville Courier-Journal lawyer, suggesting a discussion of courtroom testimony and media involvement in legal process.
Mrs G B Tucker of Portland visited the Frost home. Miss Erma Kane attended a basketball game in McMinnville. Miss Freda Kane at Behnke Walker College spent the weekend at home. Delegates including Miss Nellie Craw Ruth Kane and Claude Wright plan to attend the Christian Endeavor Convention in Eugene. Esther J Clark connected with Ellison White Chau tauqua worked in Portland visited Eves and Heskett. Advance Club held monthly meeting with officer elections and an interesting program. Red Cross Auxiliary will sew Tuesday all day. Cannery meeting at Newberg represented by Rex people and lunch served. Friends of Mrs Frank Johnson (mae Maude Wright) regret her illness. Mrs E Wright has been in Newher daughter.
G N Hesgard now works in Portland shipyards and DeVere Fendall spent Tuesday and Wednesday there. Mrs George Bush and Mrs W C Finch were Portland visitors on Friday last. Frank Roland enlisted in the navy to help defeat the Kaiser. Laurence Boyd to lead C E services next Sunday night on What My Church Stands For. Local Red Cross Unit meets weekly with a box social Friday at No 10 schoolhouse to aid the Red Cross. Rev F C Stannard spoke on The Wages of Sin Is Death and plans to boost church membership and attendance were discussed. Mrs A C Seely resigned as church treasurer. W C Finch named acting treasurer until March elections.
Our snow has vanished and children express disgust. Illness befalls T. E. Hobson. Mrs. Ralph Gillis visits in Portland with her father Nealand. Della and Freda Parrish visited Par rish family after returning from Portland. Mrs. R. L. Jones and granddaughter visit Ross home. Arthur Parrish returns from Oregon City mill work. Volunteers helped build a playshed but weather delays finish.
A roundup of U S wartime and civic facts including troop equipment costs and production shifts, postal savings deposits, U S chemical self sufficiency, Japan rice land, Esperanto origins, U S Army oaths, shrapnel history, and park land plus sheep mowing use in over 150 U S cities.
The notice lists multiple marriage announcements including Lola Avarilla Essley to Walter Everette Swartout Flora Wilma Sears to Samuel E Cummins Melissa Elaine Vaile to Robert W Russell Cora Agnes Ornduff to William Earl Etzwiller Vera Irene Gustafson to Harry W Alsop Lula Marie Way to George H Clark Lena Irene Hallin to Molan Francis Kelley.
A short quip from The People’s Home Journal imagines a father saving a dollar each Saturday. Willie replies that the father would never reach a thousand dollars because he would spend it on buying an automobile once enough is saved.
A five year old Ruth returns from her first dinner away from home and tells her mother she behaved well. She recalls saying to Mrs Brown that she enjoyed herself and complimented the dinner, sparking parental praise.
A brief quip echoes farewell between a speaker and Jonah the fish. The line jokes about avoiding internal injuries as the goodbye lands with a humorous maritime or nautical tone.
In New York courts the odd tale unfolds of George Ley Peace Butler known as George Vernon who died with Laustania. His will named $103,588 for relatives though his real estate was $47. The executor continued rifle contract talks with Russia and profits matched the devised sum exactly, yielding $12,733 to each of five heirs after expenses.
The Chicago Journal notes Canada’s fur farming shifts from speculation to production. Prince Edward Island fox ranchers yield many skins at times up to 1500 dollars per pelt, with about 4000 fox pups raised. Westward figures are unavailable. Some seals, fishers, minks, beavers and martens may be domesticated later, making fur farming potentially important even if it stops with foxes, reindeer, or Karakul sheep.
A humorous exchange notes that girls ignore mandolin melodies but rush out at a horn honk. He comments that real music fails to move them, while the horn provokes a visible reaction from the listener, reflecting light entertainment rhetoric of the era.
An old classified style notice from W.S. Stull advertising a garage at 2nd and College offering repairs vulcanizing and auto livery care with phone numbers Black 198 and Blue 186.
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