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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1911
Page
7
A Philadelphia Inquirer excerpt recalls how a mother's ridicule tempered a boy and a girl into keeping their ambitions and habits private. The narrator recalls dreams of leadership and military service quenched by parental mockery and persistent secrecy within the family.
Finnish observer Mr. Laine suggests thunder jars rain drops to gather as a heavy eastward thunderstorm near Vasa produced a brilliant double rainbow. With sun unclouded, the rainbow faded as thunder shook the air, challenging the idea that lightning alone forms rainbows and rain.
In New York after a rehearsal Brignoli received a standing ovation for singing a favorite song. He invited the orchestra to a champagne supper at the Everett House and offered to meet them there. The extravagant event cost Brignoli $500.
A clergyman, preparing his Sunday sermon, is called away on mercy. His unfinished line reads I never see a young man of a peer physique and the promise of a glorious manhood almost realized that my heart is filled with rapture and delight. His daughter enters the study and writes beneath it My sentiments, papa, exactly.
A Scotsman near death is urged by a friend to forgive a longtime neighbor. On meeting at the bedside the two reconcile, and the dying man jokes that if he recovers, the gesture will have been for nothing.
A fragment recounts a younger Dumas judging a would be humorist with the remark about a man always on and thet in a playful, satirical tone. The passage hints at literary careers and social banter without full context.
Harper's Weekly notes that blows to the head or eye often cause a star like vision or a veil across the eye due to eye lobe compression or eyelid relaxation. It explains vertigo stems from semicircular canal disturbance affecting balance and vision, linking eye nerves to inner ear behavior.
A garbled quotation centers on the Humorous Suabians with a Max Nordau remark and an anecdote about a Suabian maiden named Gretchen. The text shifts to a mother calling Gretchen to shut the front door, revealing a fragmentary dialogue and no clear news event.
The narrative recalls Chief Tamanend or Tammany, a Delaware leader famed for wisdom. As he aged his people left him in New Britain, Pennsylvania, where he attempted suicide by stabbing, then burned himself with leaves and died. He was buried at the place of his death.
The Kongo Free State was unknown to whites until 1876 when Belgian authorities began control. It was recognized by European powers as a state in 1885. It spans a riverbank strip and about 802,000 square miles with a mixed population of a few thousand whites and about 16 million blacks. The climate is harsh for Europeans, though sanitation could enable safe white settlement.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote depicts a child redefining charity at home by accusing Aunt Jane of vanity and Aunt Jane’s bucketful of hair and three switches while Uncle Jim is described as nearly bald. The vignette captures family humor and sharp wit in a domestic moment.
Mrs. E Ripley recalls childhood in New Orleans era when a penny bought small treats and a picayune covered a tiny newspaper. She notes the shift in value over years from picayune to modern prices.
A quip circulates about early ocean sounding using steel wire. Professor Silvanus P. Thompson or Lord Kelvin cites that the scientist advocated moving away from steel wire. A story recalls William White’s shop where piano wire was shown for sounding.
A noted West country leader unexpectedly receives a peerage after repeated electoral defeats. Lord Beaconsfield notes the move was a strategy to remove a persistent detractor who harmed the party. The passage is from Under Five Reigns.
The Hampton Roads clash marked the first real test of ironclad ships like the Monitor and Merrimac. The battle proved wooden warships obsolete against armored craft, transforming naval navies worldwide since 1862 and ending any era of wooden combat ships.
Casey bought a livery stable and had a painter craft a sign showing him astride a mule. Finnigan teased, asking if the figure was him and prompting playful banter about the man on the back.
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