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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1913
Page
6
Chicago Tribune examines Anglo-Indian paupers in India, arguing many rely on charity due to aristocratic pride rather than vice. It cites English colonial influence, limited available work, and sanitary conditions as key poverty causes affecting families and the female labor market.
Parisians cherished sundials with a famed noon spectacle at the Palais Royal. In 1782 the Duke of Orléans kept the dial and added a sun‑triggered powder magazine, later replaced by a sun‑driven cannon. Buffon devised a solar dial in the botanical garden with a globe on a hair dropping onto a gong.
A London Spectator remark cites diverse world changing discoveries including electricity wireless telegraphy steam and microbes. The most surprising claim notes the earth moves around the sun as the universe’s vast fact beyond any small holding.
A Louisville Courier-Journal tale notes a man staying late and requesting music. After bringing out a graphophone around 11:30, the man asked for many records, including Home Sweet Home, revealing his growing amusement and curiosity about the device.
A London Telegraph item recounts Swabbs marrying a widow after being told she possessed an ocean of money. He soon learns she has no bank account, only a notion of money, a deception he uncovers promptly.
A farmer praises his hired man as a great inventor, jokingly claiming he invented petrified motion, while a city boarder asks what he invented and the judge weighs in with the punchline.
The Boston Transcript notes that hiring a personal lawyer is pricey while retaining one’s own counsel incurs no cost to the client. The remarks frame the financial realities of legal assistance.
Harper's Weekly describes anchor ice forming at the bottom of fast flowing streams where current disturbance prevents surface freezing. Water contracts and expands differently with temperature, causing ice to start at the bottom while surface water remains unfrozen. Observers note ice coatings on boat hooks and water mill wheels despite open surface water.
Frank Putnam argues in National Magazine that German youth respect property and law due to universal military training and strict punishment, noting thousands of miles of public road fruit trees where authorities sell the crop to fund road upkeep, unlike American youths who would seize fruit and risk damage.
Frederick Townsend Martin warned at a luncheon that society is uniform in a lack of culture. A newly rich society woman told her daughter at Fifth avenue that chatter about Ibsen Shaw and Tolstoy is improper, as strangers might think she once worked in a book shop.
A Suburban Life note praises flax as a garden plant, describing airy green leaves and pale blue blossoms. It claims flax grows almost anywhere with close sowing in well-worked soil and ample watering.
A humorous note from Ladies' Home Journal asks why girls close their eyes during a kiss and the editor replies that a reader’s photograph might help reveal the reason. The exchange reads like a lighthearted advice vignette from a periodical.
A reader quotes a Washington Herald line about rewriting a novel where the hero starved to death. The author now revises for self-satisfaction and gives the hero a banquet in every chapter, changing the tone and outcome of the tale.
Dialogue from the Brooklyn Citizen sketches a couple debating engagement and finances. Madge questions marrying an economical man while Dolly concedes yet finds being engaged to one tiresome.
A fragment from Shakespeare appears as a quoted line about prood ents ap bimecif, reflecting archaic diction and stylized phrasing. The text resembles early modern English with possible typographical errors or mistranscription.
Milk is our most valuable food and best supports organs when raw and from a healthy cow. Boiled or sterilized milk allows typhoid and other bacteria to persist, so raw milk or buttermilk is preferred when possible. For intolerant individuals, milk can be diluted with alkaline water, thickened with flour, or mixed with eggs to improve digestion and strength.
Harper’s Weekly notes the Eskimo lamp likely originated south of its current range before emigration. Lamp form grows more specialized with latitude, southern Alaska at a two inch wick edge and Point Barrow to northern Greenland reaching seventeen to thirty six inches. Lamps serve melting snow for water, cooking, lighting, warming, drying skins and in the arts, and symbolize the family unit with the head of each family owning a lamp.
David Grayson in the American Magazine extols the campfire's charm as a lively and reflective companion. He describes flames dancing and sparks flaring into the night air while opening forest vistas and casting somber mystery.
A Canadian woman tried to correct a servant's visitor rules by prompting him to usher her in. The next day she found the servant outside the door, replying that he had fooled her yesterday and would fool her again today. Judge.
A damaged OCR passage quotes a judge discussing a Southern stereotype. In Mobile a colored youth allegedly refused pay for small service, replying with a demand for the speaker’s clothes, highlighting racial attitudes of the era.
An old Philadelphia North American item describes two tapeworm species solium and lata and a home method to expel them. Starve the patient for 48 hours then drink cocoanut milk followed by a powerful laxative to flush out the worm. The approach is touted as safe and effective.
The essay describes how the term toast originated in medieval banquets with the loving cup. A piece of toasted bread floated in wine or mead as the cup circulated around the table. Each guest sipped then passed the cup along until it returned to the host for the final toast.
A biographer recounts Tennyson writing Crossing the Bar in the 181st year during a visit from Aldworth to Farringford. He notes the poem formed quickly after dinner and reflects on the Pilot as a guiding force. A few days before death he opposed placing the poem last in his editions.
A boy named Freddie reports the neighbor offered a penny to reveal his mother's remarks about her. Freddie's mother praises him for not speaking, and he jokes that he told the neighbor what his mother said was awful and worth half a dollar.
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