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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1911
Page
7
A legendary frontier duel between Choctaw chief Carpenter and Price unfolds at dawn by a plum tree. Price fatally shoots Carpenter after a tense standoff as a crowd gathers to witness the fatal encounter.
A French inventor, M. Paul Cornu, creates an unusual clock using a dial above a fuel reservoir. Alcohol in the reservoir feeds a small flame that heats air beneath a seesaw so it moves every five seconds, powering the clock hands.
A Cleveland teacher writes a grammar issue on the board as a student points out that the down stroke on the g lacks heaviness, revealing a light hearted lesson about handwriting and sentence correctness.
A motorcar swerved into a corner and knocked down a pedestrian carrying a basket of potatoes. A bystander remarked on the escape, and the victim quipped that his potatoes saved him from injury. The report appears in the London Mail.
Two youths trade playful bragging lines about having a lead and a grand baby in their playful banter. The exchange suggests a light humorous scene centered on friendly competition and imagination.
Frederic Taber Cooper notes Balzac worked through obsessive revisions, turning manuscript drafts into a chaotic eruption of edits. The process transformed or destroyed episodes, crosses, and symbols as the writer battled to align thought with execution. Balzac’s brutal self-editing was legendary.
A nervy agent hawks unusual goods to a grouchy suburbanite with lines about hatracks and a toothbrush whisk broom. The scene escalates with boasts of a top floor mop across seven states before a bulldog breaks loose.
The text highlights Apelles and Zeuxis as the two greatest ancient Greek painters. It notes Apelles born at Calophon and a contemporaries with Alexander the Great. Anecdotes describe his horse painting and a remark that the horse knew more of art than the king. Zeuxis is described as a close second with a cherry feeding tale.
A traveler reports Aztec ruins showing a chief’s tomb with a carved head wearing spectacles. The glasses, no glass in the era, were likely for protection against weapons, fashioned from solid material with a sight hole, suggesting they aided vision.
The tale recalls Sir Richard Burton seeking a haunted London house said to be cursed. Burton and a friend confront a ghostly warning, ring bells and race stairs, then burst in to find his dog dead and Burton shaken beyond words. The house is torn down soon after, and the mystery endures.
The article notes that before Charles I the Scottish parishioners had no church pews and sat on the floor. It recalls that attendees brought candles and candlesticks for evening services and cites Paterson on a Glasgow church that still observed separation of services in his day.
The piece traces early reception of the potato from 1584 imports to eighteenth century cultivation. It notes high prices, slow adoption, and commentary by Mortimer's Gardener's Kalendar comparing potatoes to Jerusalem artichokes and suggesting limited use for swine. It also mentions Scottish religious writers opposing the potato for not being biblical.
The physiology of ants reveals strong memory as ants recognize nest mates after long separations. Sir John Lubbock kept an ant away for a year. upon return the original nest welcomed it, while an outsider was hostile and slain.
The quibble argues in wrath David declares all men are liars. If true, David is a liar, making his statement false and paradoxically says not all men are liars. The logic spirals around self reference and truth value.
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