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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1894
Page
4
Royal Baking Powder Co announce their product from 106 Wall Street New York. The notice highlights the brand and its widespread availability in the city.
An ex resident of India describes two methods to kill crocodiles. He favors using a large hooked baited rope line to drag the animal into shallow water where it can be held and hauled out by several men. References to massive jaws and trophies inside a crocodile are noted.
An Englishman in New York argues that money dominates social discourse in American life from homes to clubs. He notes money is rarely discussed in civilized parts of the world and questions whether such openness fits gentlemen of high society.
Fragmented text references a long baked genius with cotton in his ears and a music teacher, mentions New Vow Wrelbly. No clear event or persons identified.
New York student Jud Wilkie returns after a year of hitchhiking and working around the world. He left penniless August 14, 1883, surviving on farm work, river trips, and stints as a barker and porter before finishing in New York with health restored and weight regained.
A Baltimore professor reports chickens converse in meaningful chatter and hens react to danger, while roosters vary in crow and form a dawn telegraph. He notes chickens sense taste and vision but lack smell, and they ignore ammonia hazards.
Miss Isabel McGallon a public school teacher gently steered a nervous suitor into proposing by using a fire drill. She rang the gong and cleared the room then gave him time to speak before the pupils returned, sealing the moment with a betrothal kiss as they reentered the hall.
The Chicago Herald reports a major firm faces cedar scarcity and is cultivating forests of Juniperus virginiana in Germany at Schloss Stein. The firm has long operated nurseries and plantations in Bavaria using seed imported from Florida.
A brief humorous remark exchanges a quip about dogs having more sense than their masters. Snaggs suggests dogs show greater sense, Cragge agrees with an anecdote about his own dog, while Lonadon Million notes the laughter at the exchange.
A North Carolina anecdote about St Jacobs Oil cures and poker using coffee beans illustrates a railway president observing workers at Wilmington and Weldon railway. The scene shows executives, bean chips, and light humor as the president departs with a kind smile.
An old note mocks ancient geographers who pictured the world as a cube and cites Toltec beliefs. It then skewers a modern beauty college teaching feminine expression, voice, and even how to pronounce potato, with tongue in cheek about music and sleep for graceful poise.
A milliner notes the Dase turban as a neat low crowned model with a rolling brim that flatters slender faces. It resembles an English walking hat but widens at the sides and is paired with a graceful veil, ideal for tailor outfits and travel. Originally named after an actress.
An article cautions kidney disease readers that conditions like Bright's disease diabetes and albuminuria are dangerous but can be checked by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. The piece notes its usefulness for constipation biliousness dyspepsia nervousness and malaria prevention and hints at a promotional broker's sampling pamphlet from Atchison Kansas.
Mrs. Potter Palmer urged a $93 000 appropriation for the board of lady managers including a $10 000 allotment for souvenir coins. The plan envisions 40 000 25 cent pieces with Queen Isabella on one side and the Women's Building at the fair on the other, to be called the Isabella coin. The sale price remains undisclosed. The item is noted in the Washington Post as part of a broader discussion on commemoratives.
The Baluban people of central Africa are noted for their iron casting and forging skill. They build tall cylindrical conical clay furnaces with layered clay and wooden bellows. They fashion hunting and war arms and craft iron collars and bracelets.
A London Tit-Bits excerpt reflects shifting age perceptions across generations. It notes teens see twenty five as old while fifty still feels young and compares milestones from adolescence to a century milestone with humorous observations.
James Payn relates in the London Illustrated News how a rival claimed he could tell by a player's face when holding a foot hand. The accusation angered the player who challenged it with a partner, only to be met with the remark that no expression had ever been noticed in his countenance.
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