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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
4
The Newberg Graphic condemns city officials and organizers for allowing questionable concessions during the Regatta. The paper calls it a disgrace to the city and urges closer oversight to protect Newberg's reputation in the future.
The National Republican Convention starts in Chicago with national attention. Reports say leading candidates may be eliminated early after balloting begins and a dark horse candidate could prevail. Several contenders are mentioned but reporters avoid naming a likely winner. balloting is expected to begin Friday.
Celia Cole urges seeing relatives as individuals with hopes and struggles. In Dundee observations note summer produce at Otterbrook, social visits, a wedding anniversary, a church revival ending, nurse graduates in Portland, a Dundee Woman's Club plant sale, and a notable recital by Prof. J P Powell with praise for teaching singing at sight and community uplift.
Popular Science notes diamonds were unknown to ancient civilizations from Egypt to Rome. Henry D Morse of Boston pioneeredBalanced proportions that maximize brilliancy, fixing a six tenths table depth and two thirds depth below to achieve living inner fires.
A biographical sketch recalls Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ardent tobacco habit. He allegedly never used the same pipe twice and demanded access to a pipe wherever he traveled, even requesting a pipe in his room during a 1876 visit to Gladstone.
An eighteenth century Italian musician Verretto in London offered Stradivari violins at £4 each but could not sell them. Today those violins fetch $10 000 to £20 000, illustrating money’s growth via compound interest and the shifting prestige of Stradivari.
In a northern Mexican village the parish priest depended on a servant to ring the noon bell. A late strike emerged as the cook called for tortillas, forcing the mozo to fetch them and delaying the climb to the belfry. The tale attributes the delay to everyday interruptions in a small community.
Marshal Foch faced a looming retreat at Verdun as M Poincare of the French Academy praised his actions. A flurry of decisive orders was drafted on paper and delivered, steering French forces to reinforce the line and avert disaster.
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