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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1905
Page
7
A historical note catalogs frequent postpaid demands by contributors to The Older and His Almanac. Examples from 1806 to 1814 show editors insisting on postpaid or wrapped submissions, with lines praising or rebuking correspondents over postage costs and reader queries.
An English peddler seeks a dog of mixed features describing a creature between a greyhound and a bulldog. The dealer replies that they do not keep such dogs and simply drown them, illustrating a blunt view of dog breeding and sales.
The article notes 104 monuments completed in Germany honoring Prince Bismarck, with 44 more either under construction or planned. It highlights the widespread commemoration of the chancellor across cities and regions.
A collage of light jokes and exchanges from various papers features quips about marriage proposals, heritable fortunes, hotel life, parenthood, and clever one liners. Punchy lines involve authors, editors, and everyday characters from Boston Cleveland Indianapolis and beyond, capturing vintage humor.
Charles Wellington Furlong reports in Harper's Magazine that he located the wreck of the American frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli Harbor after a century. He describes divers and a cutter working amid eel-grass and fossilized timbers as they logged the site and noted the wreck’s burial depth.
A Washington Star quote shows a mechanical genius questioning the success of his new device. He praises its simplicity and effectiveness but doubts whether he can craft enough persuasive appeal to attract stock subscriptions.
There Are Others, Rhymer I say, off man, are you ever troubled with writer's cramps. Spacer says the check failing to arrive adds to the strain and humor.
A fifty year old scene recalls Justice William T. Spear, famed as the Town's Mind in Plymouth Massachusetts. He faltered speaking for a moment before declaring I am not here sir to be barked at by every puppy that crawls into the town house, then he resumed guiding the town calendar.
The Kansas lawsuit against Colorado ditch owners seeks to stop water withdrawals from the upper Arkansas River. In Hutchinson, depositions were taken with Colorado backed by four lawyers and Kansas by two. Witnesses from Garden City, Great Bend, Larned and Hutchinson favor Kansas, despite the river’s variable flow and flood conditions.
A terse quarrel erupts with Mrs Jawback James deriding a partner as a fool. The husband retorts that marriage unites them and predicts events. The note then reflects on hard things to understand including mules women gasoline engines automobiles and wireless telegraphy.
The text cites cases on municipal contracts and public duties, including a city's right to purchase and operate assets, Bowden v. Kansas City for a ministerial fire station duty, and a carrier’s liability when redistributing goods under orders with bank transfer rights, noting notice and conversion issues in National Newark Banking Co. v Delaware, L and W R Go.
A New York Sun tale has a sleepless man rely on the city directory to cure insomnia. He trudges through A to J Archibald Guifkins and learns his name is missing, provoking frustration and a long wait to leave the book behind.
Brondaxe of Lidgerwood recounts a Dutch traveler who refused to pay 85 cents fare to Hankinson, offering to walk if asked for more than 25 cents. The conductor halted the train and ejected him, then the man sprinted ahead of the engine as the engineer blew the whistle. He declared he would not come back.
A humorous exchange in Houston features a young man admitting to smoking. The officer teases him about carrying cigarettes and asks for one, the youth acknowledging a craving and offering a smoke to quell it. The quip captures streetwise banter from the era.
A terse Philadelphia Ledger remark records a heated exchange where one person accuses Flanagan of lying and another confirms the accusation citing Flanagan. The terse dialogue captures a charged confrontation in a brief, quotable exchange.
A London and New York comparison discusses merits of electric omnibuses versus self propelled carriages. It notes narrower streets favor omnibuses, lower initial costs, and the trolley's greater capacity, while electric lines require tracks and power houses. It concludes with freight rate discrimination and calls for measured, just rates.
A brief quip from a blind beggar to a policeman who taunts him about reading a paper. The beggar says he is blind for business hours, but off duty now, delivering a dry punchline amid idle chatter.
The Philadelphia Record notes France aims to teach every French boy the automobile and its principles. Technical schools offer detailed instruction and Paris leads in automobiling. Public hospitals will gain self propelled ambulances and a fast car will serve the municipal laboratory for street bomb investigations.
A Philadelphia Ledger fragment shows a betrothal clash as the mother pushes for a wife while the girl counters with resolve to be a good husband. The note ends with stray lines about a patent remedy, priced at 2% cents.
A Glasgow Times piece notes a father demonstrating a horse trainer technique then contrasts it with a child's question about spanking. It mentions Winslow's Soothing Syrup as the best remedy for teething children.
A former zoo star elephant, dethroned by a new camel, expresses jealousy by lifting andaiming its trunk to spray water on the watching crowd around the baby camel. The incident reflects the animal's competitive reaction to the new attraction.
A city man staying with a farmer cannot grasp why soil is plowed before planting. The exchange with the granger reveals rural logic and practical farming know how as the hired man turns the soil to ready crops.
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