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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1913
Page
7
Describes women wearing masculine clothing in various regions and historical periods, from Paris to Alpine dairy workers to ancient warrior bands. Notes bands of brigands in Greece Spain Albania dressed in vivid skirts rivaling opera chorus costumes, with pride in their attire and a playful, sensational tone.
An Exchange report explains three types of heavy coastal guns. Barbette guns fire over embankments, older designs feature notchable parapets, while the latest disappearing guns retract behind a wall after firing. The gunner controls operations from a side platform as electricity and mechanisms ensure rapid, safe positioning.
In New York a man who paid $4,000 for a cocktail unknowingly proves a point about executive judgment. A company hires a deputy manager at $6,000, tests his focus at lunch with a cocktail, and discovers the value of restraint over tippling when a telegram declares the job too big for a boozer.
A note on eucalyptus as a rapid growing, durable reforestation tree. It reportedly grows five times faster than other species with seedlings averaging six inches per day. A California tree reached 125 feet in nine years, though frost limits where it thrives.
In a northern England football match a loud spectator taunted the referee. The official confronted him and declared he had been watching for about fifteen minutes. The reply admitted the misperception with mock humility.
A fragment from a Chicago Tribune item features an indignant wife pondering what she would have done if she lived in an era when men began to earn bread by their own labor. She imagines starting a nation store selling handkerchiefs as a witty alternative.
A fragment recalls a generation's drive to earn and endure. The speaker notes how youths burn the midnight oil while an older father toils through nights, aiming to fund education or passage to Florida and a union.
A jester infiltrates the office and forces a card, mocking adulteration claims. He sketches watered wine and sanded sugar as scams, prompting amused exchanges about grocer and wine swindles in a Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote.
In Fukui Kotei’s feat, described in Japan and Its Art, he exhibited speed by painting a picture for each of 1,224 guests in a single summer day from sunrise to sunset. He completed the works using two brushes for Prince Arthur of Connaught during a Garter mission visit.
The Christian Science Monitor describes an oiling method for Panama swamps to curb mosquitoes. Oil tanks atop watercourses dispense oil drop by drop as heavy rains wash oil into lower swamp areas, creating a protective coating where mosquitoes breed most.
A schoolteacher asked John D. Rockefeller for a recipe for contentment. He replied that one should never borrow trouble or lend money, emphasizing restraint and prudence as keys to inner peace.
A garbled passage cites romantic vows and ominous lines about sealing doom. The text mentions a diamond circlet, ringing hopes, and a dialogue between lovers with a reference to a father and a Spooner.
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