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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1917
Page
3
Charles M. Schwab recounts how he boosted a steel mill’s output by using chalk marks to ignite competition between shifts. He tracked heats with a W for six, then a T for ten, and the night crew matched or beat the day crew, transforming a poor producer into the plant’s top mill.
A Popular Science Monthly excerpt notes the honeybee sting, though small, can kill a man. It details the three-part shaft with a sheath and two barbed lancets, which remain embedded, forming a hollow tube for venom. Two sensitive projections sense contact with a stingable object.
Charles Frohman as treasurer of Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels devised a publicity stunt in small towns. He displayed a three foot iron safe marked Treasurer, Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels, placed it for crowds, then pretended to deposit two or three $100 bills and retrieved them later, proving an effective ad ploy.
In Washington's administration a $500 prize sought the best house design for the president. James Hoban, an Irish immigrant from South Carolina, won with a plan featuring many wings and colonnades. Public reaction led to a simpler two story White House completed in 1800, with Washington laying the cornerstone in 1792 and the building finished the year of his death.
A compact compilation of quotes on liberty and equality from Mirabeau and Turgot. It contrasts practical experience with philosophical deduction and notes the imperfect pursuit of equality by people.
The text notes the north south span of England from John o Groats to Land s End. It states about 480 miles as the crow flies and rounds to a longer figure by common travel routes. The passage comments on direct distance versus typical overland paths.
A humorous exchange shows a specialist inquiring about the patient’s heart irregularity with concern. The patient jokes about the potential bill, highlighting lighthearted tone amid medical setting.
A Detroit Free Press passage recalls a youth wrestling with violence and pride. A boy admits recognizing wrong in fighting yet persists when faced with an opponent he believes unbeatable.
A Detroit Free Press fragment recalls a quip about two living cheaply as one and asks how many years ago a man lived to frame the remark. The lines hint at historical debate over frugality and shared fortune.
A concise aphorism from Goethe notes that firmness and resolve mold the world to the individual. The line emphasizes willpower as a driver of personal influence and achievement.
Taft writes on presidential isolation and constant Secret Service protection. He notes the tension between security and privacy, the vigilance during travel, and the lack of true privacy even in comfort, while acknowledging safeguards against assassination and the need for public leadership.
A humorous exchange where a patron jokes about hearing the late wife knocking. The retort by Puck frames the comedic conceit around a spectral visitation as a playful theater bit.
A brief outlook quotes Fielding on human nature noting how people who cause harm often harbor lasting resentment toward their victims.
Reports in the New York Tribune describe the Edmunds law of 1887 clarifying congress power over electoral college returns. It outlines procedures when states issue multiple or contested certificates and the method for counting or selecting votes when state determinations vary or are unclear.
The piece notes inverted writing in The Idylls of the King with The Passing of Arthur ending the series, written in youth and later integrated. It also cites David Harum where early chapters were written last to introduce key characters, creating a notable topsy turvy authorship record.
A Labrador larch grows only nine inches high with a trunk three-eighths inch wide. Drought like cold and dry air slow growth. the tree shows thirty two years of ring growth, indicating very short, cold summers compared with Alaska.
A manufacturer seeks a slogan showing their phonograph records never wear out. An advertising man puffs a cigarette and time passes as he suggests the line that their dance records will outlast the best hardwood floors ever built.
The New York Medical Journal cautions that grit between the teeth when eating raw vegetables, cabbage or fruits indicates inadequate cleaning and raises safety concerns about consuming them raw.
A Louisville Courier Journal reader recalls a wife who insisted on exchanging goods she buys. He mentions swapping a silk dress for a meer echaum pipe after a single failed attempt.
In a short exchange from the Boston Transcript a young widow recounts how she encouraged Jack to propose. A friend reveals she told him the widow pursued the match, not the other way around.
A siege lasting twenty four years ends when Turkey takes Candia from Venice in 1600. The historic conflict marks a major shift in control of Crete, with Ottoman forces securing the island after a prolonged siege against Venetian defenders.
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