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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1911
Page
7
A boastful notice emphasizes superior quality and value in our food, claiming customers pay standard prices for top goods. The statement implies confidence in merchandise quality and affordability compared to rulers or financiers.
A brief customer inquiry requests the addition of bath fixtures and plumbing work for a new home. The note emphasizes interest in proceeding with installation and emphasizes a desire for the contractor to consider their project.
The article describes driver ants in Africa as voracious scavengers that destroy fatty matter in broods of poultry and even force evacuations. They travel in organized columns with generals and captains, build bridges and tunnels, and can be repelled only by fire. A bungalow is burned and a feverish malaria bout ensues after a night of raids.
In Java’s Madura Island residents eagerly await the annual Krapen oxen race. Magnificent decorated beasts dash as drivers, perched on narrow planks, urge their creatures to leaps and speed. The victor earns a handsome prize amid large crowds.
The piece explains Visible Speech, a symbol system for human voice sounds by Alexander Melville Bell first published in 1867. Bell claimed fifty symbols cover all languages with thirty radical alphabetic characters picturing sound organs. Consonants use curves and vowels straight lines to form a complete alphabet.
The text traces headwear from bare heads in early times to the introduction of hats after the Norman conquest. It notes medieval nobles wore varied headgear while commoners mainly wore their natural hair, except on special occasions, and links modern baldness to hair habits of later periods.
A New York Sun report describes Canton public executioners who use a two handed sword to decapitate condemned prisoners. An American visitor photographs the austere official and learns the blade weighs ten to twelve pounds and requires only one stroke.
A London Chronicle note describes mourning stationery with black edged border sheets prepared by hand. Each sheet is bordered by a narrow line inked along the edge, a process praised for its precision and speed by stationers.
A veteran cabman spilled water outside a hall and used a soaked umbrella to create a rush for cabs. As guests arrived, a scramble began and every cabby present secured a fare, turning a slow night into full work.
London Notes and Queries recalls a belief that a drowned man's body would float on the ninth day. Sir Thomas Browne references this idea in his era and a discussion in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica touches on it. Also noted is the notion that sea drownings leave spirits to wander for a hundred years due to improper burial rites.
The Big Ben bell in London nicknamed for Sir Benjamin Hall, the first commissioner of works when cast. The 13 ton bell marks time for Londoners though noted for its discordant tone in early accounts.
In a village tale from Mr. Woodgate's reminiscences the two spaniels search a flooded pool for their missing master Austin Woodgate after a hat sinks in the New pool. The dogs persist through many hours, ignoring calls until Austin returns, then they safely come to supper.
A curious Japanese timepiece displays an ornate rear hillside scene. A golden sun traces hours on a silver wire as a bird sings each hour and a mouse ventures from a grotto into the garden.
In 19th century New York at 327 Pearl Street in Martin Morrison’s Porter House tavern seafarers favored the famous cut. A pilot’s order led Morrison to slice a sirloin for broiling, earning the nickname Porter House steak as patrons spread the tale. Morrison then instructed his Fly Market butcher Gibbons to prepare sirloins accordingly.
A sharp-witted clergy man tells of a steamboat encounter with a famed sharper who asks for a sermon. The clergyman replies that the sharp would have heard one last Sunday if he had been where he should have been, in the county jail.
A fragment recalls a tale where a great lady defines accident as a Seine fall and misfortune as a more severe outcome, told in the era shortly before Napoleon III seized the French throne.
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