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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1913
Page
8
An illustrated tale from Harper’s Weekly describes a monkey facing a deadly cobra. The primate probes the snake, seizes it near the head, and endures the hiss as the cobra coils around the arm. After a dramatic scramble the monkey rubs the cobra’s head on the ground and escapes with chattering companions.
The piece describes the fata morgana an eerie sea mirage seen off Calabrian shores and between Italy and Sicily. It imagery shows cities temples palaces and ships sometimes in place sometimes inverted sometimes at an angle and has long been linked to omens of calamity. A quoted exchange recalls a sleepless night after denying a woman a small sum with the woman later revealed as a wife.
A contemplative meditation on the spectrum of silences and speech. The author notes silences that jar the senses and those that soothe and deepen connection, praising gentler, kinder silences as eloquent beyond words.
Price Collier in Scribner's notes German and Bavarian promotion delays and low officer salaries. Lieutenants earn 300 to 600 dollars yearly over decades, captains up to 1275, generals around 3495. Promotions vary by region with Bavaria and Württemberg faster than Prussia. Practical pay supplements, travel discounts, and free rail travel accompany service.
John Leech and a Millais family guest stayed at Carouge Hall in England. A supposed haunting led them to camp in a dim corridor after Millais woke fearing a giant. An earthquake report later suggested the tremor was the ghost. The piece also recounts a legend of tea's heavenly origin told by a London Chronicle note.
A Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post piece recalls a tense scene outside a leading Gew theater. A writer, tasked with composing about a show, confronts a disheveled visitor who argues the visit was for work not amusement, prompting a sharp exchange.
A four year old boy pleads with his mother to hitch Prince to the new rubber tired buggy for a ride. She objects, saying the father would not want the buggy in the mud. The child quips that it has wub baha on for mud traction.
An excerpt from London Strand Magazine discusses how sap travels from absorbing roots to treetop and beyond. It notes that capillarity cannot explain it and cites internal stem pressures reaching 120 to 300 psi. The piece highlights intricate, minute plant engineering and the limits of human understanding.
Birds in nature consume large quantities of food with rapid digestion. Doves with 600 peas in a crop, a bird eating 180 beechnuts at a time, and a robin taking over two times its weight daily illustrate extraordinary appetites. The little Trojan Horse statue in Mexico City, known as The Iron Horse, sits in Plaza de la Reforma and has a history of site changes and unpopularity among locals.
Annie Vinson writes in Atlantic Magazine that mistresses find housekeeping wearisome and many maids ready to work for little, while few provide good conditions. Maids complain of tiresome duties and unfair management, with both sides seeking high pay and minimal effort.
A London Telegraph report describes a yeomanry squad well out of practice causing bruises during drills. A recruit accuses a comrade of cutting his head, while the sergeant urges that now is a good time to do something in it.
A brief notice advertising The Graphic and Semi-Weekly Journal available at two dollars per year. This item highlights the paper’s pricing and offers a subscription option to readers.
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