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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1912
Page
8
Multiple short classifieds note loans with attorney in McMinnville and job asks. Listings include furnished rooms, best rooms at Hotel Clark, exchange options, farm rent near Newberg, plant sales, haulage and moving, sale of brood sows and pigs, poultry trades, cattle and dairy exchanges, acreage near city, and a Portland residence with a wood shed priced at 750 dollars.
A local ad promotes violin lessons with a bold claim that violin is the king of instruments. The teacher, Oskar R. Janovsky, offers instruction at Kienle Music Co with sessions on Mondays and urges readers not to waste time.
Describes Argentinian pampas trees such as the ombu and palo borracho. The ombu remains useless yet astonishing, its hollow trunk shedding powdery fragments that vanish in open air as new shoots sprout. The palo borracho yields a hardening wood and a milky unripe fruit, used by natives and Europeans alike for practical uses.
The writer recalls John Wesley criticizing French as inferior to German or Spanish. He claims French poetry is inferior due to awkward measures, rhyme schemes, and alleged vulgar rhymes, comparing composing in French to making music with a bagpipe.
A strict housewife warns Maude about deductions for broken items. Maude, disenchanted after two days, laughs and says she already broke a hundred dollar vase and will leave at week’s end if four dollars can cover it, proving she is not intimidated.
A family friend arrives unannounced with a dinner invitation, stating he came to make his dinner call. The family protests noting prior lateness, while he maintains he intended to remedy that defect with a prompt invitation.
A cooking school girl mocks a student for lemon tart skills while another retorts that it is unnecessary to make the tart. The exchange underscores tensions over pastry technique and taste.
Observation suggests inexperienced swallows often falter with pills while cherries, though harmless, risk choking on pits. Fear disrupts nerves, making practiced motions falter in presence of observers. Automatic muscle memory aids habitual acts. conscious effort interferes, as shown by musicians and stair walkers under scrutiny.
The article notes Emperor Valerius ordered red uniforms to intimidate foes and recalls Roman legions sometimes wore bear skins or figures on the battlefield to appear more formidable.
The hump stores fat as nourishment to sustain the camel during scarcity. It is a reservoir of fat not easily used by heat and serves as a reserve in wild and domestic camels. A dromedary can endure long periods on this fat alone until the hump is exhausted.
An American and a Scotsman trade remarks on North Scotland frost versus U S cold. A humorous image recalls a man tumbling from a hill frozen midair, with the Scotsman declining to admit the gravity would not allow it and the American claiming gravity was frozen too.
The piece portrays an elderly man described as original and endearing. He is noted as a wartime private, not a top player, outperformed by others in fighting, not handsome, and never successful with girls, explaining neighbors’ curiosity about his company.
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