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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
3
The article discusses hair care rules including brushing daily, washing frequency, and avoiding harsh soaps. It warns against wetting and slicking hair or exposing the head to direct sun, citing Dr. Woods Hutchinson on sun exposure and hair vitality.
The Rev Mr Pomfret recalls a moment that touched his congregation when Mr Elton’s reaction in church drew his attention. He then learns a light moment reveals Simeon Davis misplaced belongings as an umbrella left in town six weeks prior.
The article notes that global rainfall totals 29 000 cubic miles yearly, with 6500 cubic miles draining by rivers. Each cubic mile carries 762 000 tons of dissolved matter, amounting to 5 000 000 000 tons annually to the sea, excluding sediments. New Orleans records 98 369 000 tons of dissolved salts as chemical erosion product.
A lecturer recounts a leading lad told by her manager. The manager enters a room with a large bouquet and whispers about the florist bill. The scene ends with a plan to display the bouquet throughout the week.
A humorous look at a provincial pantomime failing to amuse the crowd and a manager's eagerness to salvage the show. Disraeli’s famed flattery proves risky yet effective in navigating political dangers and social banter.
A portrait emerges of Robert Buchanan a writer famed for constant financial woes. The text recalls his frugal dinners cab rides and trains and his habit of boasting debts and debts paid with whimsical excuses. It notes his generosity when fortunes rose and his talent for telling white lies about money.
A Java published guide notes a sanitarium with a resident physician offering daily treatment and medicaments. It lists lodging prices for children under ten, describes warm baths, and claims cures for malaria chest ailments and skin diseases. It also mentions excursions with saddle horses and tandees for reconvalescents.
A passenger train stops in a rural area on a summer afternoon. A young man volunteers to amuse passengers and encounters a country lad on a stump. He taunts the boy with a rude remark about fools and laziness.
A classroom scene shows Miss Whackemall asking pupils which country lies opposite the globe and imagining a hole through the earth. A student jokes about exiting from the far side, while the teacher presses for the correct answer.
An angry composer rebukes a critic who labeled his rhapsody a bum tune. The critic denies misunderstanding and defends calling it a vagrant melody as the exchange turns into a heated disagreement.
In a tale from St. Paul Pioneer Press Mr. Brownlee struggles to change a ten dollar bill for a $3.79 vase. After visits to multiple shops and a bank he finally secures change but learns his wife spent the money on other purchases, leaving no vase purchase.
A neighbor recalls a young Abraham Lincoln at home on Eighth Street reading a book with one arm around a baby buggy. She later saw him as president in Washington and remembers his cordial greeting to a girl named Annie.
A Manchester firm received a business Arabic letter translated by a Syrian interpreter. The translation included a request for the price of ring two water sheep with specified dimensions. The translator doubted the meaning of water sheep, later found to be hydraulic rams, leaving firm heads puzzled until the synonym was identified.
Two friends argue over ownership of an umbrella. One claims it as theirs while the other asserts the opposite. They debate who the initials L. B. belong to and note they borrowed the umbrella from someone else. Lippincott's sources the exchange.
A British scientist notes varied animal defenses from sharp teeth and tusks to stinging secretions and horns. He explains hollow horned ruminants like the cow, solid-horned deer, and the unique horn arrangement in rhinoceroses.
An old lawyer John Strange arranges a plain funeral with a gate inscription reading Here Buried an Honest Lawyer. He tells his wife to leave the name off and says those who read it will supply it, thinking Thats Strange.
Mrs Oldwoman lies ill and explains to a friend that her daughter Harriet married one homoeopath and Kate an allyopath. She worries that calling either “son in law” will upset the other spouse, and if she recovers without using either, both will be mad, leaving her with no option but to endure.
An excerpt notes the paradox of male admiration shrinking after marriage. It describes a husband praising a wife’s flower in her curls before marriage, then failing to notice the same adornment afterward, highlighting inconsistent perceptions in romantic relationships. From Woman’s Life, attributed to Annesley Kenealy.
The fez crosses class lines in the Turkish empire and even beyond. It likely derives its name from Fez in Africa and is known as tarbosh in modern Levant. Not ancient in Ottoman times, it was adopted by Sultan Mahmud II from the Greeks.
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