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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1917
Page
2
The article traces six centuries of wood engraving to modern photo engraving. It notes the half tone process began in 1881 and surged in the 1890s with electrotyping, transforming illustration quality. It highlights rapid press preparation today versus days in the past.
The piece notes older people seeking outlet for joy in Lambe spring area and laments reliance on animals to express life. It contrasts youth and aging, arguing adults need direct avenues for happiness rather than comforting pets to animate vitality.
In the time of King Henry IV England the Simaart faced similar games of chance with counters nails and points rather than cash. Historians note scholars playing for money were expelled by charter. Hospitals instructed sisters to seek out dice and ecards among the poor.
The passage discusses the iron masked man in Le Vicomte de Bragelonne and notes Voltaire may have invented the tale. It mentions the legend of a brother to Louis XIV and references historians, Count Ki as an Italian adventurer, and the prisoner’s treated status.
Fragmentary OCR reads a quirky dialogue about a glass eater in a circus sideshow and a troubled applicant. The garbled text includes phrases about deception, a Romanesque reference, and a manager to take her place, reflecting a chaotic newspaper clippage.
A shrewd man confronts a widower with a wry hint about a forthcoming marriage. He claims to know from the widow’s account on her fingers, implying a secret engagement or elopement. The exchange hints at social intrigue surrounding Miss Gaussip.
A feature describes the ostrich as fierce and stubborn yet capable of loyalty. It notes the bird’s resistance to kindness, its solitary mating, and a comical daily routine of racing the enclosure and performing a grotesque minuet before sunup and at dusk.
Sir Matthew Begbie, chief justice of British Columbia, faced a man charged with killing another with a sand bag. The judge scolded jurors as a “horrible farce” and dismissed the prisoner, telling him to sandbag jurors who deserved it.
Sardinian dancing features a shuffling foot pattern with partners holding hands and circling the group. Men and women stay on separate sides and Christmas and feast days host dances in village plazas rather than large towns.
A freshwater British Isles spider shows fishlike habits and air breathing. It constructs a sack like web under water, anchors it to reeds, and carries air down in during surface trips. Once the sack fills, it enters to live quietly until air runs out.
Three rival tailors on one street post notices declaring themselves the best. Brown proclaims he is the best tailor in the world, White boasts the best tailor in London, and Green counters with the claim of being the best in the street.
A cornet virtuoso warns that losing teeth destroys embouchure and ends a cornetist's career as he explains the great dread of the cornet.
A North Carolina health bulletin warns that 72 to 78 degrees is too hot for daily work. It advocates a cool dry air, with 50 to 68 degrees as ideal for mental and physical tasks, noting performance varies by season and activity.
The Kansas City Star reports a prophecy and plan for a spring feast of death in a Michigan prairie camp of Romanian gypsies led by Queen Mary. Stella Stankovitch, 101, mother of Queen Mary, died in a tent on the plains. The queen promises an outdoor free feast with lamb pork cabbage sauerkraut and fruits between Easter and May.
John Leech, famed Punch humorist, died of angina pectoris after ceaseless work and street noises. Organ grinders near his studio allegedly provoked his condition as lawmakers debated street noise suppression.
The Philadelphia Ledger quotes a father and son exchange explaining dreadnaughts as large heavily armed battleships. The boy asks about a superdreadnaught, and the reply notes it is even bigger and more powerful designed to intimidate dreadnaughts.
The excerpt features Fielddule asking why Singleton never married. Singleton replies that society viewed him as unfortunate and not in need of reform or a desirable husband, reflecting a literary exchange about personal worth and social perception.
A London Telegraph line notes a woman's suspicion growing after she faced paying the minister, implying concerns about a marriage tied to money. The fragment hints at money worries and marital motives without further context.
The text compares lifespans of crustaceans and amphibians noting crabs may live about fifty years while oysters average four years. frogs tend to die earlier than toads with toads living up to thirty years.
A remarked aphorism by Gautier notes that white men should show the same numbness to moral tortures as red men do to physical comments, reflecting 19th century racial rhetoric.
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