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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
5
Locals and personal notices cover visits to Newberg from McMinnville Portland Salem and Woodburn. Included are holiday gatherings church events New Year celebrations and various travel and illness updates among residents and visiting relatives.
The Farm and Home editor urges husbands to modernize homes to ease daily chores and protect wives from premature aging. It cites long- standing duties like fetching water, stairs, and lighting as wear points and recommends self watering devices, in house water systems, acetylene or electric lighting, heating upgrades, and a small gasoline engine to run laundry and sewing machines as profitable labor savers.
A caucus will be held at Odd Fellows hall on Tuesday at 7:30 to nominate a ticket for city offices. J. D. Gordon is listed as mayor candidate.
The Civic Improvement Club will hold a Friday meeting on January 3 at 2 30 PM in the Commercial Club parlors. All members are urged to attend for the regular officer election.
A speaker pleads that the faithful dog stands by a man through all trials. Nearest friends may betray, bodies may fail, fortunes fade, but the dog remains in loyalty. The poem depicts a dog guarding a pauper master, guarding sleep, and following unto death with steadfast, watchful love.
A Spanish tradition described shows young men winning affection by secretly sending notes to their beloved. The practice hinges on discreet communication and social norms surrounding courtship in public and family settings.
The text appears as a garbled excerpt mentioning a bear and a watchful stance near a window. It lacks coherent names, dates, or places to form a clear news item or event.
A humorous exchange features Jessor lamenting dwindling hair as he jokes that remaining strands are of a very rare species. The line captures the light tone typical of Harper's Weekly cartoon captions.
The story recalls a housekeeping bride who wants a plant on the dining table. A late arrival by a colored maid brings a remark about adding greenery. In the dining room the centerpiece is a vase filled with romaine salad leaves, creating a humorous contrast with a refined setting.
A curious scene unfolds in a small village grocery. A visitor asks for all the stale eggs as he boasts of playing Hamlet that evening in the same town, provoking light banter from the shopkeeper. The Philadelphia Ledger records the humorous exchange.
The piece praises desert nights as beautiful yet cold, noting warm beds and blankets make open sleeping feasible. It imagines Mars over Arabia and Jupiter above the Sahara, with a dreamlike sense as the dark expanse and beds float beneath planetary skies engage the sleeper.
A travel vignette describes the journey into hills where fatigue and unconscious drift until dawn. Light returns with quick businesslike movement, the sun rising behind low rocks and startling all with a sharp beam as the camp stirs to wakefulness.
An old suburban life tip says a clock kept running with a kerosene soaked cotton cache on the floor of the case will shed dirt from the works. After four days the mechanism should appear clean and like new, the cotton dark with loosened particles.
In tropical waters a jellyfish is described as highly intelligent, sailing with a hoistable sail found around Polynesian islands and northern New Zealand. The sail is a transparent membrane, distinct from the jellyfish body, showcasing unusual navigation behavior.
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