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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1911
Page
3
Complete line of spring dress goods priced from 10 to 50 cents per yard. Ready made pillow slips are 15 cents each. Readable text emphasizes value and availability though some words are garbled.
An American describes evading freight trains into Hermosillo, facing twenty days or a twenty dollar fine, sharing a jail cell with six starving prisoners who smoke cigarettes. He endures sunlit labor on a street paving chain gang, frijoles for supper, a ragged quilt, and a Sunday street sweeping duty before a Gringo friend helps him return home to a proper dinner.
In a Success Magazine anecdote Chief Justice Taney, while driving through Tennessee mountains, asks a colored mule rider to fix a broken buggy shaft. The boy uses a hickory withe to repair it and quips that some folks know more than others, prompting the judge to reflect on humility and practical skill.
In a Leech biography a humorous episode from a lesson with Queen Victoria is recounted. The rowing master and the queen both bend to retrieve a fallen pencil, colliding heads. The queen quips that such head-bumping could speed her improvement under his tutelage.
Ngalyema, an African trader, visits a camp where Stanley has set a trap. A Chinese war fetich is struck, unleashing a deafening roar and a storm of approaching voices that drives the painted warriors into panic while Ngalyema and his son cling to protection and flee only after the danger passes.
In an Ohio court during cross examination a lawyer pressed a witness on the meaning of the word impossible. The witness responded with a sharp quip about the lawyer’s mouth and ears, turning the moment into a memorable exchange.
A London Globe recounts a case from 1866 where the Grenadier Guards failed to recover a cowskin allotted for rations after the battle of Soor. Despite lengthy inquiries and fourteent months of correspondence, the government insisted the colonel be held responsible for the skin’s value, finally paying 3 thalers and dropping the matter.
An unruly classroom in a large school tests a French instructor known for quirks. In a heated moment he punishes several pupils and, amid heat and trouble, snaps that the entire class should go to the bottom.
Advice from Farm Journal on orchard care and pest control. Guidance covers brushing and rubbish burning, protective gloves for spraying, shallow root care, timing for plowing around trees, planting berry plants, canker worms, tar bands to trap pests, pruning currants and gooseberries, and preparing for codling moth control with spray pumps and attachments.
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