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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
7
A vast two fence system stretches over 2100 miles across the continent to halt a migrating rabbit horde. Workers used tar coated netting, buried edges, and high top wires while boundary riders patrol each section twice weekly. Camels, bicycles, and horsemen convey crews across arid regions.
The London Spectator notes the boomerang's clever shape suggests mathematical insight yet criticizes its makers as uneducated and poor. It questions claims of older civilizations being the creators and instead asserts the weapon evolved from empirical throwing practices.
A memory test involving drawing a watch face reveals widespread errors in incidental details. Of 200 participants only eight omitted VI and twenty one wrote IT for IV, suggesting impeachment based on inability to report incidental features is not justified.
A Montreal Herald note recalls a humorous exchange where a Chi lady’s Swedish cook and her neighbor discuss language quirks. The maid asks about the ring and ear hello with the family term hoosit used as a greeting. The piece blends small talk with comic mispronunciations.
A brief dialogue from the Yale Record shows a mother and child discussing conscience and self doubt. The exchange hints at inner virtue within Willie while addressing appetite and restraint in a family moment.
Retold Paris tale shows a countess averting a duel by presenting a divine apple sculpture. Envious rival and suitor debate its realism, split opinions lead to laughter, the countess defuses the quarrel, and both gentlemen withdraw. Parrot and gilded cage witness the event.
A haberdasher asks if the red necktie is for the husband. The wife confirms and asserts he will wear it, adding he must have it because he is dead. The lighthearted exchange captures a grim joke from the London Answers.
A Westminster Gazette note recalls Tudor breakfast customs with ale as a staple. It records Henry VIII era maids of honor receiving loaf and two gallons of ale daily, plus wine, and cites Lady Lucy’s hearty morning meal of beef, loaf, and ale, followed by a gin cut of mutton and porridge.
A short quirky snippet describes a waif named Pete thrown into country life. The boy, served a new laid egg for breakfast, finds it tasteless and smell-less. The magistral tone notes his silent, obedient adjustment to bread and butter as his simple daily fare.
The article explains that filibuster derives from French flibustier or freebooters, once used for independent robbers. It notes English speakers later corrupted the term into filibuster while French members of the profession used the original form.
The Count recounts a daring 1848 Brescia street chase as bullets fly and he navigates a house to deliver a message to the Austrian garrison. He recounts escaping a deadly fusillade and guiding a companion through a half-open doorway while sharpshooters fail to halt them.
Old John Bates, an upholsterer famed for his silence, rarely spoke with customers. After decades of terse exchanges, a patron noted he once said hair was best, later correcting himself to cotton and lamenting that talking had been his ruin.
A fragment from a youth column shows Ruth Kingly pleading with her father to stay home. He explains he must travel for work with a large corporation to support his daughter and her mother, noting insufficient local jobs. Ruth points to a sign she has seen about work opportunities.
A pretty woman peruses a dog show and asks a passerby to direct her to the kennel. The other woman offers to help and mentions the ocean greyhounds exhibit, reflecting a light moment from the National Monthly.
The passage surveys 19th century ideas on sleep. Claparede Koelsch and others propose sleep as a self cleansing, waste removal process to prevent exhaustion. They compare metabolic byproducts to ashes from combustion and argue senses resist rest, necessitating an opposition current called sleep.
A Philadelphia editor recalls Walt Whitman in his Camden home saying he works for George W. Childs for 50 dollars a month. He rides horse cars, talks to drivers, and sizes winter overcoats for delivery, easing Childs’ tasks with measurements.
A London tale recalls a young singer praised for talent before an elderly woman who offered advice. The hostess pretended the critic was Mme Goldschmidt, later revealed as Jenny Lind, the famed Swedish Nightingale.
A quirky historical snippet shows a boy racing home to avoid his father, insisting he would rather face his parent than the minister, highlighting a stubborn adherence to the saying of choosing the lesser evil.
In a terse court opinion Judge questions the credibility of Fappeseer Peekhead’s piece. He notes the author’s blunt stance on marriage and men’s choices, suggesting the article bears little truth or relevance to the case.
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