West Chehalem Notes and Social Gatherings Featured
Sunday visits unfolded among Hawkins See ly Amoth and Anderson households. The Worden brothers batch at Chehalem Center as DeVere Fendall tours The Dalles grafting trip. West Chehalem band entertained at Ewing Young school with strong solos and a lively minstrel show. Granville Everest’s leadership praised. Fernwood visitations and local gatherings pepper the weekend.
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West Chehalem
Ewing Young School
North
South Side
Granville Everest
Local Visitors and Illness Reported in Community
Mildred Baker visited the Hobson home Sunday. Daniel Wohlgemuth visited friends at Sherwood Sunday. Florence Felts of Newberg spent Thursday night with Jos Powell. Miss Beryl De Pord of Newberg visited W A Parrishes Sunday. Hubert Rollins of Donald visited friends at Fernwood Saturday and Sunday. Irene Powell has been sick.
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L. M. Metcalf
Ray Newby
Ross
Nex Ross
Portland
Fernwood
Joseph Powell
Mildred Baker
Hobson Home
Daniel Wohlgemuth
Sherwood
Florence Felts
Newberg
Jos. Powell’s
Beryl de Pord
Hubert Rollins
Donald
Irene Powell
Sunday Guests and Weather Affect Local Activities
Miss Ethel Evans visited Mrs. Mabel Rich Sunday while Susie and Lucile Evans stayed with Mrs. Kate Rich. Miss Esther Burnham spent the weekend at her Newberg home. Miss Elizabeth Kirkpatrick went to Portland for work last week. Stormy weather caused student absences and bad roads halted church services last Sunday.
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Ethel Evans
Mabel Rich
Susie
Lucile Evans
Kate Rich
Esther Burnham
Newberg
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick
Portland
Local People and Visit Notes From Portland and Newberg
W G Warnack transacted business in Portland Saturday. Mrs John Pettingill of Newberg was a Rex visitor Sunday. Mrs Erma Kane visited friends in Newberg. Dr A M Davis of Newberg was a Sunday visitor at John Winters home. Mrs Ford Boyd of Salem visits her parents A L Jenkins. Mrs A H Dean and daughter Dorothy visited Portland from Saturday to Monday. John Winters Charley Rein and August Schaad ship potatoes weekly at 1.35 per hundred.
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W. G. Warnack
Portland
John Pettingill
Newberg
Erma Kane
A. M. Davis
John Winter
Ford Boyd
Salem
A. L. Jenkins
A. H. Dean
Dorothy
John Winters
Charley Rein
August Schaad
The Family in China and Multiplied Wives Customs
A reflective piece describes Chinese family life, noting how official wives keep track of many children across secondary wives and how lineage and names are shared. It contrasts Western sympathy with Chinese practices and ends with a brief, unrelated historical note about winter 1741-42.
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China
Teai An
Wo Kee
Ma la
Sin Yun
Sih Peh
New York
An Icy Record of New England's Coldest Winter
A study notes 1741 42 as New England’s coldest winter since Plymouth. Snow fell by Nov 13 1741 and the cold persisted into April. Ice stretched across rivers and sounds, with travelers using the frozen highway on the Charles river and ice linking Fisher’s Island to the mainland.
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Tower of
Springfield Republican
Alonzo
the Annale
New England
Plymouth
Boston Post Boy
Charles River
Boston News
Stratford
Long Island
New London
Fisher’s Island
Thompecs
Dorchester
Conn
Connecticut River
Dream-powered prowess in sleep aids strategic mind
The article notes Fry FM's unusual condition where his work appears in his head during sleep after waking from bed. It cites Sir Phones Browne who claimed he would rather work in dreams, believing his mental faculties excel when his body is asleep.
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Fry Fm
Phones Browne
Child Contemplates Family Dilemma After Scolding
A mother questions her daughter’s thoughts after a morning reprimand. In the afternoon the girl sits in silence gazing out a window, then bemusedly reveals she is thinking about six or eight bridesmaids.
No Wedding Presents in Hungary Crowds Gift Customs
The article notes Hungarian wedding customs where friends give sweet ring shaped cakes to brides and grooms. Guests receive cracknet biscuit like rings about ten inches in diameter as part of a home making aid tradition.
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Hungary
Wager Gives Rise to Spencer Short Coat and Skirt Style
A tale of a third Lord Spencer who cut the tail of his overcoat to make a very short coat. The fashion spread as the garment and its feminine counterpart were named after him.
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Spencer
Lord Spencer
Cere
Photographer and Father Exchange Lighthearted Loure
A photographer asks a young man to place a hand on his father to improve the picture. the father jokes that it would be more natural if his hand were in the photographer's pocket.
Motion Pictures History and Early Inventors
The text traces early motion picture devices such as thaumatrope and zoetrope, noting the first photographic motion picture exhibition in 1870 in Philadelphia. It describes pictures shown with music and mentions inventors who contributed before Edison’s 1889 modern apparatus.
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Er Heyl
Philadelee
Edison
Napoleon and the five essentials for a soldier
A quotation sets Napoleon’s Day with guidance on a soldier’s gear. Five items are essential: a gun, a cartridge box, a knapsack, four days of rations, and pioneer tools. The knapsack should be minimal, containing only a shirt, shoes, a collar, a handkerchief, and a flint.
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Napoleon
Now Johnony and the Thrifty Builder
A teacher asks a student how to build a $1000 house with only $700. The pupil replies he would marry a girl worth $300 to cover the shortfall. Kansas City Star.
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Johnony
Kansas City Star
A Smooth Approach in a Humorous Insurance Sketch
An affable stranger compliments a weary man and jokes about selling life insurance. The man laments being half dead, prompting the quick quip that a policy cannot be issued to the near-death. The exchange captures a light, humorous moment from a Louisville style page.
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Laouisville
Impossible Feat
A brief Baltimore American note reports a quip where a father asks a son to walk into the house and hang up his hat, and the son Timid Suaiter replies I know I can’t, you are sitting on it.
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Suaiter
Baltimore American
Actress Rose Coghlan Survives Theatre Fire Like A Dress Shield
In Scotland Rose Coghlan recalls a near fatal theater fire sparked by a gas footlight. Wearing Louisa Thorn ton’s bridesmaid costume, she was saved when a cloak shielded her as flames frightened others and caused a rushed escape from the stage.
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Rose Coghlan
Louisa Thornton
Colleen Bawn
Scotland
Anne Chute
Louisa
Rose
Hardress
New York
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Prof. Hawkins
Mrs
A.C. Seely
B. F. Yergen
E. G. Fendall
BE. L. Amoth
E. H. Anderson
Oliver
Floyd Worden
Chehalem Center
DeVere Fendall
O.A. C
Dalles
Family Sunday
Wade
Chilldren
Mars
Motion Pictures
Newberg Feed & Seed Company
Pri
John Gower
Afewters
Oregon
Yamhill County
Ee McMinnville National Bank
U.S. National Bank
First National
McMinnville
Lescos
Cash and Exchange
U. S
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