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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1912
Page
3
One lot dress goods value up to 50c yd now 25c yd All Wool Dress Goods 15 percent reduction for this sale only Ladies Muslin Underwear 20 percent off Hosiery three pair for 25c for women and 3 pairs for 25c for men Children fine ribbed hose 15c a pair Summer Vests 3 for 25c Knit Drawers 25c a pair Union Suits 50c Dresser Scarfs Lunch cloths 25 35 and 50c each Men Underwear 25c Shirts or drawers Men Dress Shirts new soft collar regular 1.25 at 1.00 each
A poor fruit retailer and her three children face eviction when their damp room is sold for rent. A tiny dimmed St Jerome painting inherited from a relative triggers two bidders, first a painter then a connoisseur, finally selling for a sum that pays off debts and leaves some surplus for the family. The painter notes the bidder’s greater wealth would have denied the sale.
Fragmentary OCR notes show a phrase about a sum “had it under a thousand” with an incomplete context or event. No clear names dates or places readable to establish a full incident or report.
Mr. Wackhard urges his family to break moody silences at meals by telling stories and keeping lively talk. He threatens a strap if they do not laugh and be jolly, but the attempted cheer seems forced and awkward.
After a days absence in London Gilbert returns to the Savage club and recounts meeting Wilson Barrett in Hamlet. The tale is told as a witty Stratford era mot about theater culture and Gilbert’s humorous description of the performance as “very funny and not at all vulgar.”
A description of a Mexican courtship where a suitor walks the street opposite the woman’s home and stares at her window for days. If his appearance pleases, she appears at the window, then he meets her father and they arrange marriage. The practice is nicknamed the bear.
A fragment recalls a father and son exchange about disobedience and punishment. The father's reminder that he learned hard lessons mirrors the son's complaint about being punished. The terse dialogue hints at a generational gap and parental discipline.
An aging man on New Year s night recalls a father s choice at life s crossroad and longs to return to youth. He fears the dark path he chose, but wakes to find his dream was a warning encouraging virtue. The piece urges those near life s threshold to choose the sunny road.
A native Chinese tale explains the Pleiades birth when seven sisters vowed not to marry. The eldest is betrothed and jumps into the Yellow River, followed by her sisters. That act supposedly creates seven bright stars seen in the sky, explaining the Pleiades.
A Chicago News report describes the Veddas of Ceylon, their hunting grounds, communal and private caves, shared food practices, and the role of women and children. It notes honesty, privacy of cave floors, and how communal property governs game, honey, yams, and fish.
A tale from Reminiscences of Yar row recounts a Scottish farmer who bought a barometer at a public sale. He tries it, finds it useless after a minister asks for his verdict, and recalls his experiment with a long glass tube and a hole, leading to no measurable weather insight.
A Chicago Inter Ocean quotation highlights a husband praising his wife for distinctive writing habits. He recalls she uses ordinary paper with standard folds, reads in order, numbers pages, and never underscores a word, claiming no other woman writes this way.
The sea depth is commonly two to three miles but Guam sounding reports extended to 31,614 feet about six miles. Land average is 2,300 feet while the Himalayas top about 28,000 feet, showing sea bottom depths far exceed the loftiest summit above water. Indigo blue seas remain deep and vast.
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