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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1912
Page
7
The article discusses Delta Cephei a double star system whose combined light outshines the sun at peak. It explains two suns orbiting each other and a thick atmospheric veil of metallic vapors that can obscure brightness, with heat dissipating as they move.
The Washin patent office displays pens from ancient styluses to steel quill tips, noting failed efforts to replace ink with durable points. Canewdon in Essex once marked a pivotal English victory and church founding, lending its name to a rural deanery that covers nearby Southend.
A Chicago Record-Herald report outlines how some groups punish marriage. England’s All Souls College evicts fellows who wed and fines them with a Latin cup inscription. London’s Bachelors of Piccadilly expel members who marry, while German Junggesellen clubs fine from hundred to a thousand dollars and stage a mourning dinner.
A medieval concept of a lift used in Paris in 1653 earned fame and later waned after a Versailles incident where a worker became stuck for hours. The primitive device used a chair on a rope with a counterweight. In 1860 a modern imitation emerged, precursing hydraulic and electric elevators.
Franz Abt, the composer, walked home in Brunswick when a friend asked about news. Abt replied he had just taken dinner, then explained he ate a turkey with only two at the table, the turkey being his companion.
Rudyard Kipling visited a bookseller and, after asking about a volume, quipped at the shopman for not reading his own books. The bookseller replied with a wry analogy comparing himself to a druggist who would not take his own medicines.
A mid age spinster’s hansom ran late and she threatened to miss her train. She demanded the cabby’s name, but he refused, joking that she could have a number instead and that the name belonged to another young lady.
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