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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1917
Page
4
Tailored suits and coats offered with satisfaction guaranteed by Mrs E B L Terrell at 911 East Third, corner of Center. Local dressmaker advertises high quality garments and personalized service.
The article traces the origins of bottles to animal skins used as early receptacles for liquids, noting a single leg opening and cord closure. It discusses why such skins could not hold fermenting wine, references biblical allusion, and mentions early glassmaking in Egypt as rare and localized.
The New York World reports in praise of Hungarian letter boxes used in cities and towns. The design allows dropping letters without lifting parts, with brass flaps and a hinged slot. Carriers retrieve mail with a locked steel bag that opens only at the post office, keeping letters secure during collection.
A Serampore Bengal letter describes a native servant carrying a longhorn beetle by its feelers with a stone weighing about a half pound for forty yards. The beetle measured two and a quarter inches long with feelers three inches long and a body section of seven inches in circumference.
The London Chronicle notes a British officer’s confusion over the word some in 1850. Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff records at a City Club dinner with Hudson’s Bay Company where Sir John Macdonald joked about Dominion inclusion and calling themselves some pumpkins.
A thermometer that falls without breaking can be repaired by placing it in a saucepan of cold water on the stove. Heat until the mercury is forced to the top then remove from heat. As it settles the mercury will descend the column unbroken.
Parlor philosopher says the little things irritate most. Mere Man notes neighbors with seven children and a ten year old. Town Topics item reflects urban wits and everyday annoyances.
A compact reflection quotes Schiller on friendship and duty, contrasting affection with obligation in a concise literary observation.
A historical quotation notes that the sharpest hate comes from envy and patience is tested by those who covet us. The line reflects a moral stance on social hostility and personal virtue.
An odd mix of notes describes the ostrich as quarrelsome and largely untameable yet capable of nest building and nurturing, with male ostriches racing at dawn and dusk before performing a grotesque minuet. A British Columbia case highlights the jury’s duty and the judge’s admonition on conscience and crime.
Sardinian dancing features shuffled footwork with couples on separate sides of the circle. A man walks between positions to guide the las la while men and women stay on their respective sides. Dances occur on Sundays or feast days in village plazas, not in large towns.
A freshwater spider in British ponds appears to swim and feed like a fish yet breathes air as land spiders do. It builds a sack as a home under water, vents air through trips to the surface, and uses the sack as a portable air supply for life underwater.
Three rival tailors on the same street display boastful notices. Brown proclaims “the best tailor in the world,” White counters with a suit boast, and Green, seeing them, prints “the best tailor in the street” on his board prompting London ideas on pride and commerce.
A cornet virtuoso explains the dread of losing teeth. Without natural cuspids and canines the cornet is unplayable, ending a player's embouchure and career in a stark warning about dental loss.
The article traces wood engraving’s six centuries as the main method of illustration and its decline with the advent of half tone engraving. It notes the role of photography chemistry and electricity in speeding plate production from original image to press in about twenty minutes, and the broader economic and aesthetic shift in publishing and daily business life.
A reflective piece compares adult restraint with the playful release of children and lambs. It notes a mother finding joy in watching lambs, suggesting lambs offer an outlet for lifelong youth when older people cannot rely on children for expressive vitality.
A fragmentary reminiscence describes a fifteenth gambler in Henry IV times. It notes a shady “smart set” bridging schemes with Sora and money, and claims households used to search the poor for cards or dice. The passage reflects historical gambling culture and social scrutiny.
The article discusses Dumas in Le Vicomte de Bragelonne introducing the prisoner as Louis XIV's brother, a theory now seen as Voltairean invention. It notes historians’ shift to a view that the prisoner was likely an obscure Italian adventurer known as Count, with surprising deference shown to him.
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