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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
2
E. W. Hodson, a pharmacist, urges customers to use the Parlor Pharmacy calling it the only town shop that would rather close than sell impure medicines. He emphasizes that only registered pharmacists with experience compound medicines, promising savings for customers.
A long list of property transfers shows Mary Blanchard to O C Peter son and others, with many deeds across multiple parcels in townships, including 3a, 34a, 50a, 60a, and 57.84a. Sums range from 10 to 10000 dollars, with buyers and sellers including Evans, Growdon, Talbott, Craft, and VanOsdel, among others.
Sauerkraut term prompts debate as locals joke about new nicknames and evolving slang in a small town exchanges.
A fragmented line notes a person named Bo ce now down the street repairing gas pipes. The text provides no clear date, place, or organization.
The article explains a new safety brake for electric tools with strong motors. A small resistance and switch trigger magnetic braking that instantly stops the tool when the operator leaves the handle or releases the switch, preventing unmanageable spins and potential injuries.
Siam now buys large amounts of foreign paper while local production suffers. Historically the bark of the khoi tree yielded cardboard like paper used for record books, and talipot palm leaves bore sacred Buddhist writings in Cambodian and Laos Pali scripts. International universities hold copies in gilt-edged, gold-lacquered volumes.
Do you plant a war garden asks Mrs Starton Stripes. Mrs Fadhunter replies her gar den costume was late causing worry the grapefruit and olive seeds will not sprout this year.
A municipal pipe organ valued at $85,000 combines cathedral organ and orchestra features. The largest pipe stands two stories high and weighs 1,260 pounds, while the smallest pipe is as thin as a straw and weighs half an ounce. The instrument allows orchestral effects and popular recitals, with tones imitating violin flute clarinet oboe and strong diapason color.
The journal Die Hilfe quoted by Gertrud Baumer notes German women discussing ships sunk by U boats and the resulting food losses. It emphasizes reverence for bread amid hunger while highlighting the harsher cost of war in human lives.
A WWI supply sergeant describes a humorous moment in France with a Chinese laborer who could not speak English yet whistled a line about Ireland. The writer notes the man is still living and that he has not told Irish soldiers about the episode.
Leipsic publishers hired many printers from Russian prisoners and pressed to print Russian books quickly. Shipments are already moving in carload lots as demand outpaces supply.
A dialogue highlights advice from the department of agriculture urging beekeeping. It notes a beehive as a solid investment with profits even when stung, underscoring practical benefits of keeping bees.
A cryptic remark notes that the speaker is powerful yet his means are hard to discern, suggesting a foggy barrier around his resources. The line hints at influence and opacity, inviting scrutiny of the underlying support behind the claims.
A witty exchange compares diamonds and coal, noting carbon as common material and mockingly equating a ton of coal to precious jewels in a lighthearted dialogue.
Brand Whitlock recalls the dead city Liège after a single night of German attack. He describes absolute devastation with 4000 inhabitants displaced, ruins of houses, charred beams, blackened windows, and burned trees, noting the total collapse of civic life and monuments.
A dialogue fragment portrays a woman describing a simple cleaning method as easy and nuisance free. The exchange contrasts the caller’s insistence with the respondent’s confident approval of the method.
British military authorities fitted grease traps to collect fats from soldiers mess tables and dishwater. Each man yields over an ounce daily. A tin-lined box with two compartments and a partial divider gathers fat as water drains through a strainer into a vat, forming a skimmed crust as it cools.
A Creek Indian from Mi Okla. earns $177 daily from oil land royalties while serving as bugler in the Three Hundred and Fiftieth machine gun battalion at Camp Grant. He is described as the division’s richest man despite a paltry pay.
A Kansas City Star excerpt shows a judge replying to Lester with a cautious wartime forecast. The judge predicts the case will be continued for a time then Germany will be convicted of disorderly conduct.
An examining officer questions Private Hank regarding a brutal assault on a sentry. Hank, a former gue house gang member, explains he struck the man after a sexual challenge.
A fragmentary dialogue hints at a family conversation about war and duty in Losiaville era press. The lines convey tension between a father's protective stance and a child’s desire to join. The snippet offers a glimpse into local wartime sentiment and youth enlistment.
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