Dress Skirts on Sale for Ladies and Misses
A large line of ladies and misses dresses skirts offered at prices from 50 to 7.00 dollars. The collection features a range of styles suitable for everyday wear and special occasions.
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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1910
Page
3
A large line of ladies and misses dresses skirts offered at prices from 50 to 7.00 dollars. The collection features a range of styles suitable for everyday wear and special occasions.
A list of grocery items including cranberries celery fruits olives pickles canned seafood such as lobster shrimp crab oysters salmon French sardines mincemeat chocolate cocoa pork and beans canned soups French peas mushrooms asparagus mustard salad dressing chile sauce catsup oyster cocktail apple butter pickle relishes Worcester sauce olive oil grape juice honey split peas pearl barley sago tapioca peanut butter Tabasco maple syrup.
A period-appropriate catalog lists a wide array of gift ideas from fancy neckwear and silk waists to perfumery and doilies. The notice urges early shopping while the assortment remains robust for the holiday season.
Fifty guests attended a Friday evening event where Miss Jessie Britt introduced Miss Elva Best in a piano recital assisted by Mrs. George E Allen. The program featured classical and modern pieces and showcased Miss Best’s promise and Mrs Allen’s cultivated voice. A social hour followed with punch served by Miss Mina Langton and Miss Nellie Angus.
George Sallee returns from Idaho. Mrs. M F Rich visits relatives in Portland. Miss Josie Rich visits relatives in Forest Grove. S Boatmann begins trapping with good results. Alma Matthey visits P Strait home. Frank Nelson markets corn fed turkeys last Friday. Mrs. N P Nelson visits her mother Mrs W R Carter. J M Deakins clears orchard land for winter. Jackrabbits plentiful and provide sport for hunters and dogs. Shooting match at Yambill attended by nimrods. Prof R N Hutchins suffers from poison oak.
In the meantime the children are enjoying a longer Thanksgiving vacation than usual.
A mix of culinary tips and curious items: salting coffee for flavor, adjusting lamp wicks, dipping pork in flour, salting fish for overnight storage, baking tips to prevent burning, and a note about a banknote from the Chicago fire. Also describes a compressed air engine used in the Simplon tunnel and a courtroom exchange where a witness refuses to answer yes or no.
The text notes a Chinese decree in 1882 banning new paper made from manuscript or waste paper in Peking. It mentions street waste-paper boxes for saving fragments and documents, highlighting reverence for written material and its remains.
An impassioned orator asks who will speak the truth aloud yet a donkey nearby punctuates with a single hee haw. The crowd laughs briefly but the orator recovers and declares only a jackass would attempt such a claim.
A New York hotel guest who spoke with a multilingual parrot impressed bellboys with her tips during a recent visit. After the guest left for the train, managers learned of the conversation and the parrot's fluent speech in several tongues likely influenced her generosity.
An owner’s parrot in a New York hotel room learns to shout Give the boy a dime after three days of voice training by two bellboys. The trick succeeds when a bellboy delivers a package and the bird loudly orders payment, causing the startled woman to pass a coin. The owner remains modest about the feat.
An Irishman Pat arrives in England for work and meets a landlady who jokes about two more sleepers. Pat locks his door yet wakes to a knock and is told the lodgers are there. He questions how many are in the room and dismisses them.
In New York novelist Miss May Sinclair met Mark Twain at a dinner party. Neighbors awaited a conversation between the aging figures but minutes passed in silence until Twain gently reproached the younger woman saying, Do not be so boisterous.
A newspaper note recalls Whitefield’s stance on marriage and refusing a marriage proposal. He told a couple he sought a mistress for his orphanage and blessed God that he was free from what the world calls love.
The excerpt shows a domestic moment where a husband wishes guests gone but cannot dismiss them, and a wife suggests piano playing as a distraction. A Wiltshire squire meets a farmer John who plans to marry again next Tuesday, noting his four marriages and the profits from wives.
The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune portrays Turkish prisons as overcrowded single big cells where natives and foreigners mingle. It notes ill lighting, cigarette fumes, and a rigid justice approach, with foreigners held until language barriers are resolved. A second prison near Plevise features an open court design with a ramshackle lower cell room.
A mother praises her son Georgie to the new minister Mr Pinkley. Georgie responds with politeness and bold language, declaring the minister looks kind and earning a nickname. He then asks for a nickel in a playful exchange.
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