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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1912
Page
7
A businessman recounts a message from the Atlantic Monthly about a young employee who sought a raise. The adviser urges improving value first, then cutting waste and boosting productivity, concluding the man remains unproductive and stuck at the same pay for years.
A Pearson's Weekly excerpt explores how bravery shifts with context from winter slips to postwar resolve. It cites a bold 1870 French assault turning to cowardice in a theater panic, where men trampled others while fleeing danger.
A scorching cyclist pedaled toward Stratford-on-Avon bent over his bars with beads of sweat on his face. He asks a passing youth if he is headed to Shakespeare's house, and the youth replies that Shakespeare is dead and to take it easy.
The article surveys ancient dietary lore from Greece and Rome, noting beans’ reputed stupefying effects and hens’ egg-laying being influenced. It recalls Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Alexander the Great, and Galen, praising cooks as guardians of mankind and citing Antony's lavish tip to win Cleopatra’s palate.
The May 5 anniversary recalls the 1760 murder case of Laurence Shirley fourth Earl of Ferrers. He killed his steward and faced trial by peers in Westminster Hall. Dressed in fine clothes he rode in his landau to Tyburn and was hanged with a silk cord using the new drop. The event ended England’s era of peer executions.
A Boston Herald note explains Western Australia households where wives manage most tasks and husbands are called grasshoppers. It suggests this term links to grass widows and seaside retirement for wives left alone, noting the male role shifts in domestic life.
The account describes Korean wedding customs with faces painted white and scarlet lips, eyelids glued shut, and the wife deprived of sight. It portrays women as forced to hard work and treated poorly by husbands, named only by their status until producing a son, then as mother of that son.
A warden harshly reassesses a refractory convict in a German prison. He contemplates bread and water but learns the inmate already endures two fast days. The warden then considers a cookbook as a new punishment.
J M Rice recalls formative years toward authorship contrasting with his later life. A tailor friend recalls his life, ambition, and the pull of Grub Street as he aged, a portrait of striving and fear crossing into memory from the Argonaut.
A learned hobo shares knowledge with a companion asking about dog bites and hydrophobia. The companion jokes about water sickness, while the hobo asserts hydrophobia is a scientific fact and the exchange notes humorous ignorance.
The arrival of Princess Charlotte of Mecklenbourg-Strelitz in London to marry George III met a surprised crowd. A caller asked what the crowd cried, and the duchess of Ancaster translated that it meant God save your majesty in a quick, composed exchange.
A Success magazine passage notes money cannot buy all joys and asserts priceless scenes like a child's welcome and a sunset. It promotes a well furnished mind as a gateway to inner play and reflection whenever desired.
A narrator recalls buying a pocket index of names with distinguishing traits and cross references. He describes how naming, faces, and observed details formed a memory system that rapidly grew beyond the book and allowed him to recall many people he met each day.
An Atchison girl believed her heartbreak would end life and contemplated suicide. A physician cites a chocolate remedy as a cure for morbid thoughts, arguing feeding the appetite can curb desire for death. A friend’s box of chocolates lifted her spirits. the idea emphasizes eating as therapy.
Popular Mechanics notes ghee, prepared from butter, remains fresh for up to 200 years. The process involves boiling to remove water and curds, skimming until clear, then cooling the clear liquor into granulated form. Instances claim ghee found in deserted castles over two centuries old.
A playful exchange traces a baby’s quick wit as adults test his senses. The child names eyes for seeing, nose for melting, mouth for eating, and ears for washing, delivering a brisk, humorous moment reported in the Delineator.
A humorous exchange shows a father explaining that a man remains a bachelor until marriage. The son asks what the husband will call himself afterward, and the father declines to answer, staying coy about the label.
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