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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
4
The Newberg Graphic notes very high Chicago temperatures and mocks speculation on the Chicago convention outcome. It jokes that if Mayor Gordon is to be photographed driving the silver spike for the Oregon Electric rail in Newberg, he should buy a new high silk hat now.
Several dark horses are groomed and stabled near the action in Chicago, ready to be led into the ring at the psychological moment. The delay must be irksome.
The graphic suggests that if the Chicago convention stays united the final nominee will likely be neither Taft nor Roosevelt. No charge for the suggestion.
Ladies are specially invited to attend the Single Tax meeting at Duncan's Hall Saturday afternoon where W. S. U'Ren will speak as the apostle of this theory in Oregon. It is expected a speaker will be obtained to represent the opposing side later so you may hear both sides.
The Department of Agriculture issues the 1911 Agricultural Year Book a bound volume of hundreds of pages with information on agriculture horticulture and stock raising. Each senator and farmer can obtain a copy by writing to a member of the Oregon delegation.
Reports say Southern Pacific bought the Commercial Livery corner for a depot site while Oregon Electric reportedly purchased a Newberg site but the location is secret. Both parties appear to delay final decision as to depot grounds.
The Oregonian’s critique is rebutted by accounts of F C Randall who was found submerged after inhaling powder fumes. Dr Doolittle treated him for four hours using modern methods, with factors like a weak heart reducing his recovery chances. The piece also praises Abigail Scott Duniway, veteran suffrage leader, while noting her aging, serene endurance awaiting the November election outcome.
Fernwood prepares for a local celebration with J. C. Hodson delivering the address and amusements planned. The piece notes residents can walk the distance and praises John Illig for election to the school board citing his business sense and prior board experience.
A traveler recounts an eastern earthquake in Calcutta during June a Saturday evening. The group of pajama clad men on a hot roof fled as walls cracked plaster fell and the cathedral spire toppled, leaving terror and chaos in the streets.
The Amazonas rises in the Andes and flows to the Atlantic at the equator. It drains about 2.368 million square miles, larger than Russia in Europe and Austria Hungary, and stretches nearly 4,000 miles. It is navigable 2,300 miles from the sea and grows wider in the eight month wet season.
A fragment notes Eugene Field as a struggling newspaper man who accepted a dinner with a renowned epicurean hostess. Rare strawberries, out of season and costly, are served. The hostess comments on the fruit and the exchange ends with a puzzled remark about eating them.
Icelanders have a distinct snuff habit with bars of snuff made like plug tobacco sold to natives. Most are addicted and use it in this form. They grow a long thumbnail on the right hand to scratch off the bar and place snuff on the nose with the left hand.
A note recalls an old English statute making it illegal to sing whistle or bum the Dead March outside a church or cemetery. Historically strictly enforced, the rule could lead to censure of a soldier found performing the tune outside a military funeral.
A historical explanation of why trade winds blow from west to east near the equator. The article describes earth’s rotation, vertical air movement due to solar heating, and how rising warm air and cooler air from higher latitudes create consistent easterly surface winds, constrained by the planet’s rotation.
A muddled excerpt discusses air speed, wind behavior at sea, and the term step related to family roles. It cites Roger Loden in the New York American and references the London Chronicle on the word origin of step as in stepchild and stepson.
In Jerryville Georgia a light hearted spree ends in trouble as a man named Mark vows to leave the town for good after a misadventure involving snakes and ruined fellowship. Residents console him predicting a quick recovery from his vagabond turn.
In a South Africa visit Trollope speaks at the Cosmopolitan Club before Lord Carnarvon Lord Der by Froude and Lord Wolseley. He dozes briefly mid conversation then awakens and declares with gusto that he disagrees with every speaker, asking what was said.
The passage explains stepmother as a woman who has stepped into the place of the true mother. It notes the word step derives from the Anglo-Saxon steop and reflects how most people would understand the term.
A farmer on his first visit to a fashionable London restaurant asks for the dish closest to roast beef. The waiter offers classic French dishes such as potage, fricandeau de veau with croquettes, and rasole de boeuf. The farmer requests the option that most closely resembles roast beef.
In the damaged text a ship emits steam or gas from a smokestack with visible air disturbance. Details are fragmented but imply a brief plume or fog rising after departure or movement. No clear entities or events are identifiable.
The Old Man of the Mountain led a feared group called the assassins who ruled by secret murder for about two centuries. They followed the chief’s orders for rewards and spiritual rewards while striking as required.
A little girl tells her mother a lunchtime ache and suggests a remedy. Her father, a congressman, returns home with a bad headache and the daughter offers a playful, hopeful cure.
In a town a man who lost three wives debated erecting separate headstones for each. To save money he carved a single large stone with the Christian name centered, commemorating all three wives with one monument.
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