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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1912
Page
3
Readable catalog style listing shows Hosiery for ladies men and children with deals like 3 pair for 25c and individual prices for ribbed dress hose and summer vests. Men's underwear and dress shirts offered with discounts including soft collar shirts at 1.00 each, reflecting a mid century sale tone.
A New York Press report describes facial perception, an alleged sense by which blind people discern objects by skin contact. It notes fog dampening impressions while darkness does not, and mentions distinguishing shops from homes and doors from windows. It also cites W H Levy’s anecdote about bats navigating with leather-covered eye sockets.
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals held a signed memorandum reading Everything is Lou's valid as a holographic will. Decedent wrote it in a railway record book while widow Lula survived him. The case cited is Smith versus Smith 70 Southeastern Reporter 491.
The document cites a California case where Sophie Loeper is named heiress. It notes the will language was sustained in Clark versus Ransom, 50 California 595, and references a Louisiana docket Succession of Ehren berg, 21 Louisiana Annual 280.
The article describes a pure white marble “Little Emple” of the Lord's Prayer in Palestine. It sits where Christ is believed to have taught the disciples and bears the phrase “Our Father which art in heaven” in many languages on walls and columns.
A simple description explains forming a glass tube with a bulb, sealing and cooling to create a thermometer. It describes filling with mercury vapor, and using ice water to mark freezing and boiling points, with 212 degrees determined and the rest graded by calculation.
Two suffragists chat at a club about personal matters. The humor centers on a misheard question about a husband and the remark about repairing khaki riding breeches, as reported by the New York Tribune.
A clipped Philadelphia Press fragment shows a joking exchange about carrying something to a meeting. The lines suggest light office chatter with a sly reference to a prior item, capturing a moment of informal banter amid weather talk.
A Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post excerpt recalls a conversation between Frank Hall and Mrs. Reynolds about a planned portrait of Bright and its impact on Gladstone. Bright fears a radical change within his old ally, while Gladstone mourns their severed paths over a single issue.
Admiral Robert E. Peary was in the smoking compartment of a train leaving New Orleans for the north when a fussy young commercial traveler, clearly on his first trip, entered seeking to make...
A wealthy, eccentric earl learns an overdue tradesman's bill in a West End shop. He warns that a bill of exchange may overdue, but a tradesman's account never and then pays the debt, adding he will take another hat as well.
A remarkable comedy describes The Visionaries by Desmarets protege of Riche lieu. Each character experiences a vivid hallucination revealing vanity and folly from cowardly conqueror to boastful poet and lovestruck romantic.
A Chicago Record-Herald quote reflects a disbelief in miracles until a recent scene. Four musicians in a club debate Wagner’s merit, illustrating contemporary views on art and belief.
A brief dialogue reveals Hettie praising Harry as trustworthy and clarifying that Harry told Clara about his honesty just last evening. The exchange centers on belief in Harry's word and personal assurance between the speakers.
A survey of historic Manx legal quirks notes bans on Scots entering Scotland and Irishwomen moving on, plus the eat the meat before the broth habit linked to coastal raids. It covers parish clerks whipping dogs, a punishment on pulling horse tables, and peculiar property rights for widows and married women.
Greek painter Polygnotus who died around 426 B C is credited by Pliny with giving life and expression to pictures He reportedly opened mouths and showed teeth and first depicted women with expressive features shaping early Greek painting legends.
The Bankipur granary in Bengal built in 1783 never served as storage. Its 12 foot thick masonry walls rise 90 feet high with a 43 foot base circumference and a capacity near 130000 tons. An exterior staircase leads to a top platform and a central removable stone, forming a famed whispering gallery.
A gunner in the Resolution stood ready as the ship passed De Grasse's flag. A shot severed his leg, yet he tied the wound, tucked his limb to the gun, and fired the piece, shouting that his foot would be first aboard the Ville de Paris.
An ancient marvel, the Colossus of Rhodes stood about 105 feet tall, erected by Charles of Lindus around 280 B C. It stood fifty six years before an earthquake in 224 B C toppled it. Pliny noted the fallen fragments as wonders. In 656 A D Saracens conquered Rhodes and sold the pieces as metal using 900 camels.
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