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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1919
Page
6
A businessman adopts a personal doctrine of stewardship and opens a ledger account labeled Special to dedicate one tenth of profits. The practice funds church building, missionary support, and other good works. He credits the arrangement with renewed vigor, a purified life, and a view of God as a silent partner in all ventures.
An old newspaper rite used the number 30 as a signoff after each night and day’s copy. Editors and staff recognized 30 as finishing all earthly matters and even life, a symbol drawn from journalistic tradition.
American soldiers in France purchase a range of souvenirs from Paris shops. Items include brooches with city arms, the Lion of Belfort statue, Bartholdi’s Liberty statue replica, the Lorraine cross, Red Cross dog charms, and lucky white elephant tokens, reflecting wartime memories.
The city of Augsburg loses the historic hotel des Trois Maures once famed for Punger's life saving I O Us and Marie Antoinette’s connection. The inn and its lilies are erased in a new upheaval mirroring the French queen’s fall a century and more ago.
A sick Indianapolis merchant's wife asks her seven year old son Teddy what he would do if she died. His reply hints at family concerns and future arrangements as he contemplates life after illness.
Commander Towers defended a transit aviation method at a New York banquet while recounting a comic telegram error. A drummer named Jones received news his wife was ill during travel. A hired girl delayed sending a telegram about the birth and illness, leading to fresh distress when the message finally reached him.
The Journal of the American Medical Association warns Asia harbors plague and pests worsened by war conditions. Cultural resistance to slaughter of vermin hinders inoculation and destruction efforts, keeping plague entrenched in India, Hong Kong, Bombay, and raising risk of Pacific coast transmission.
The article examines evolving slang among soldiers and students, noting meanings behind terms like joint dope and four flushing. It contrasts educated vocabularies with improvised coinages born from necessity, trench life, and urban underworld usage.
A London Daily Chronicle note recalls a 19th century incident at Doctor Johnson's home in Gough Square where soldiers in a group read from a famous dictionary. The reader is identified as Jamaican by birth, echoing a former faithful servant to Johnson and a past salon tale involving Barber at sea.
Irish relic the golden bell, said to descend from heaven and grant information when needed, was sold at auction in London. A thief stole $1,700 in saddle bags, authorities failed to recover it, and a priest vowed to the bell. a man later returned the money claiming it was all safe.
Fulmeno the pit pony at South Kirby colliery marked twenty years of continuous service since April 1899. The Lincolnshire handicap winner in 1886 has never had a day of illness or an accident and still retains good eyesight.
Theodore Dreiser, described as a novelist of repute, notes long novels. A Greenwich Village talk leads to a quip about sermons in stones. A young Indianapolis sculptor adds that precious stones are small and require cutting.
The article traces early ideas of submarines to John Wilkins and Cornelius Dreble in 1648 England. It cites Wilkins calling the craft an Ark for marine Navigation and notes experiments during the civil wars. London readers encounter the tale in the Pall Mall Gazettes.
A British farmer reports Belgium’s livestock is depleted as Germans leave Menin area. Tillage and farming halt. allies relief plans to send dairy cattle to restock peasant farms harmed by requisitioning and theft. First consignment expected within weeks to aid farmers marching toward Calais.
William Brake of Eastern Avenue observes a large fishing worm and mishears a neighbor woman digging as the worm’s strange noises. He reports the odd encounter to his mother, noting birds, crickets, and spiders as unfamiliar sounds this year.
The Rocky Mountain News notes that wartime taxation has shuttered about 1,000 great country estates in Great Britain. It states roughly sixty resemble private palaces needing 200 to 600 staff each, with many more workers employed for grounds, gardens, parks, coverts, outbuildings and stables.
London transit reform cuts ticket waste with simplified system for omnibus passengers. The measure saves about 100 tons of paper pulp annually, per reports circulated by the Indianapolis News.
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