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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1916
Page
4
The notice lists the Newberg Graphic as a Thursday publication with office in the Gee Grepase Building at 600 First Street. It provides contact names or codes Odloe and White and notes a residence at Blue 8. It indicates postal registration at Newberg Oregon.
Massachusetts judge George D. Alden will lecture on The Powder and Match at Wood-Mar Hall. The speaker’s prior Newberg talk The Need of the Hour impressed readers, and he is regarded as a top figure among visiting speakers. A 1916 Christmas note hints at public interest and costs.
A writer notes plans to hold the national convention in Chicago on the same dates as the Republican gathering and hopes both sides pick the same candidate. The writer suggests the Colonel as a possible choice but argues parties traditionally nominate a ticket member from their own ranks.
The grippe kept the Graphic editor away from a Willamette Valley Press Association meeting held at a local venue. J G Eckman of the Telephone Register appears to have been the county’s sole representative.
The article notes Judge Alden, praised for wisdom and bloodline to Mayflower Pilgrims, as having strong magnetic stage appeal. It marks his second Newberg appearance, with connections to Longfellow through his father and a family history tied to New England’s development.
The New York Times listed a hundred needy cases and readers donated a total of 29844 dollars. Among the beneficiaries were an elderly couple in a two room rear tenement needing six dollars and fifty cents a month to cover rent, hoping to keep their home together.
A humorous article argues there is no true ideal husband. It satirizes married women’s claims and notes small faults reveal imperfect taste and habits, from casual sloppiness to misaligned etiquette, concluding such perfection does not exist.
The article describes Bagdad as the ancient city immortalized by Haroun al Rashid and linked to Basra by a 220 yard bridge over the Tigris. It notes a five mile brick wall, about twenty mosques in use, and crowded dirty streets with vaulted interiors, citing Pearsons Weekly.
An excerpt discusses the French view of nurses and servants, portraying the home as central to moral and spiritual life. It suggests a deep affection between masters and servants, with love and sentiment sustaining master servant relationships and shaping French literature’s portraits of intimate bonds. The piece cites J. Frapes Cooke in New Republic.
A quotation urges clearing homes of superfluities to foster art at home. The rule states hate nothing in houses unless it is useful or believed beautiful, attributed to William Morris in urging practical aesthetics.
A mosaic of happiness is built from small stones joined by art. A disconsolate man laments heavy debt while a cheerful stranger jokes about unpaid money. The line on time reads that there is only the word Now.
A fragment describes Japanese sword making as a ritual process. Charms and paper talismans guard spirits during polishing and sharpening. Finally swords are presented to the goddess of Shinto with offerings as part of the kiessen ceremony.
A fragment describes a ceremony where prayer is read and blessing invoked before the work proceeds, noting offerings of sake and sweets as part of the ritual.
In a Birmingham Age-Herald look back fragment a speaker notes how a car gives pleasure and wonders how life existed without it. The other narrator jokes about a pedestrian covering territory and references a veteran group with a hint of wartime slang.
A fragment from Meg Pendorfer Blaetter presents a comic exchange about promised dowry money. The dialogue contrasts a father's pledge of 20 000 marks with the wife’s insistence on 2 000, highlighting a humorous dispute over a trifling sum.
A cavern on the Donegal coast named McSwine's Gun is a vast sea inlet where tide rushes in with cannonlike force. The roaring water can be heard twenty or thirty miles away, admired by those who pursue grand enterprises, even in failure.
A vivid sketch recalls Victor Hugo rebuking a guest who spilled temper at a reception. A forgotten umbrella prompts a backstage scene through an open vestibule door showing a sincere apology from the visitor. Later, a remark by Stevenson about writing real women is noted with Trudeau.
A poet dismisses a man as not a true Bohemian and calls him a poseur. The dialogue depicts scornful mistrust and questions the subject's worldly debts amid a fragmentary news fragment.
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