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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1912
Page
7
A resourceful wife keeps her husband at home by simulating smoke in the living room. She explains that nightly outings ended after she created the faint odor of smoke with a lit cigar and two armchairs before the radiator.
A loving woman in the southland refuses to use a phone, causing a household to fall ill with no one able to summon a doctor. She panics when calling Central and whispers the word Hurrah to the telephone operator, revealing the era’s exchange system.
A customer confronts a jeweler about a clock bought twenty five years ago. He reveals he was told the clock wound weekly but discovered it runs eight days. He estimates wasting about five hours winding over a quarter century and leaves saying the merchant should warn buyers.
A quoted New York Times exchange describes a naturalist guiding a skeptic on an expedition. The prank tents atop an ant hill reveal ants as industrious workers, persuading the narrator to accept a new view of nature and learning.
A brief note from London Answers about how people default to a personal catchphrase. It suggests common exclamations like Great Scott or Good gracious and notes many speakers end sentences with you know or you see. It also points to overuse of words such as logical and illogical.
The text notes that many insects possess both simple and compound eyes. Compound eyes contain numerous hexagonal facets, each a cornea belonging to a distinct eye with its own pupil iris and lens. Counts vary from 50 for ants to 4000 for houseflies and up to 25000 for some beetles.
The discussion explains how deep rock salt evidences ancient seas that have since vanished. It describes salt layers, minerals like bromine and iodine, and signs of ancient life including frog-like reptiles and duck‑footed lizards. The note cites paleontological clues from Germany, England, and other regions.
The dugong a Pacific and Australian coastal whale is cited as the basis for mermaid and mermen legends. It reaches eight to twenty feet, has a humanlike head, lungs, and bears long hair or beard in the sexes. When wounded it noises loudly, and its flesh is said to taste like bacon or beef depending on the part.
A London Fleet Street tavern nicknamed the Devil and St Tan fed many with good food and drink. It became shorthand for neglect as patrons abandoned the business, leading to the phrase Gone to the Devil used in offices when occupants left.
The article traces the etymology of ship from a hollowed log origin. It cites the root skap meaning to scrape and shows linguistic evolution through Teutonic skepa, Middle English schip, Chaucer shippes, and German schiff, linking word forms to wooden boats and hollowed vessels.
Desaugiers, seeking to view the Tuileries siege at midnight, faced two armed revolutionists who demanded his cockade. He paused then produced a witty reply, claiming he had left the cockade on his nightcap, a clever explanation that defused the moment.
A Berlin journal Prometheus notes Africa letter describes the fahaka, a balloon fish. It fills its body with jellylike substance except the underside, has sharp prongs on the exposed area, and surfaces at high Nile water to puff up then roll over with prongs up. Both fish and humans avoid it due to painful wounds.
A London Chronicle tale recalls Bjornson the Norwegian poet who found his greatest pleasure in fame when a Right wing delegation damaged his home in Christiania and, fleeing, began singing the nation’s song in tribute to him.
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