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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1913
Page
7
Report describes composition dolls produced in German factories. It details mixing rooms for rag content, mold pressing, head creation, eye socket cutting by hand, painting and glazing, limb molding, and rosy facial coloring. Eyes may be fixed or movable with balancing of lead, and wigs are real hair from China.
A trolley car accident leaves a patient awake to amputation of his right hand. The nurse consoles him that he will cope with his left hand. He mourns the loss of a forefinger string his wife tied to remind him of a task he cannot recall.
A short humorous anecdote recalls Kipling selling a book at a shilling a word and a Fleet Street humorist sending a shilling for one word with a reply of Thanks. It then moves to a French joke about the Marquis de Favieres trying to borrow 500 louis from Barnard, who offers more and confirms recognition.
The passage traces manna origins to tamarisk sap exuded by insects. It notes trees producing manna such as Sicily’s flowering ash, Australia’s eucalyptus, bamboo in Inca, and the sugar pine and common reed in the United States.
E. Alexander Powell recounts the early exploration leading to Rhodesia forging from a waterfall discovered by a Scottish missionary to a British colony. It tracks the Zambezi falls named Victoria, the rise of Stanley, and Cecil Rhodes's prospecting venture that yielded a £6 million company and a treaty with the Matabele guiding British expansion northward from the Orange River toward the Nile.
The term chores, often plural, is a respectable English word with forms like char and charwoman in England. Cornwall dialect uses chores similarly to modern usage. All derive from the Anglo Saxon cerr or cerran meaning to turn over.
A stranger in a dusty rig praises land around a farm as the owner asks $1200 an acre. The buyer reveals he is the new county assessor and notes he is jotting details in a book.
A Washington Post quote contrasts economy with charity. A speaker likens scientific management of spending to a skinflint millionaire who only supports foreign missions to stretch funds.
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