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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1911
Page
4
The Newberg Graphic urges parents to avoid cheap shows and instead arrange wholesome educational entertainments for children, pointing to lyceum traditions as a standard of consistent quality.
Complaint filed at the Graphic office over the Blaine Street sidewalk between Second and Fifth. Pedestrians have been seriously injured, and authorities must address repairs before tragedy repeats.
The city council grants a franchise for a new telephone line in Newberg. The Graphic offers no criticism but hopes any disputes with the county line people and Newberg Telephone Co. are amicably settled. Past poor experiences with two lines concern residents.
Towns surrender lyceums to cheap shows, but Newberg aims to keep its elevated, instructive entertainment. The community is urged to patronize the booked lyceum course this season to uphold the town’s reputation for quality cultural offerings.
The Willamette Valley explores beyond timber into agriculture and processing. Creameries and condensed milk plants lift farm mortgages while horticulture expands, forage crops boost livestock potential, and market gardening, irrigation, and new crops show rising revenue. Water resources and awaiting demand shape future development.
The speaker notes the agricultural producer is in a crude formative state and believes its future potential is immense with proper development of its resources. It emphasizes untapped capacity and the need for focused development to realize a giant outcome.
Circuit court actions include Bechtel and Robertson of Sheridan discharged from jail for exhibiting obscene pictures. Victor Gross indicted under local option laws. case postponed to next term. Monday, Laughlin vs Spaulding Logging, $500 awarded. jurors oppose employer liability act. McGinn vs Wiberg and wife ongoing deceit suit with contested land descriptions.
Presbyterian Church will observe Rally Day with a Sunday School program next Sunday morning at 10. A Rally Day sermon from Eph. 4 1 16 will be preached during the regular service and Genesis 3 1 15 will be the evening sermon.
Public notice invites all to attend a Sunday service at 11 a m titled The Grandest Theme of the Ages and an evening session Guarding our Greatest Treasure ensuring welcome to everyone.
Describes historical water ordeals used to test guilt, including sinking or floating tests in Dalmatia and Russia, rope and bread trials, boiling water in Persia, and Tibetan arm tests with black and white stones. Notes a 1745 Prussian prohibition and lingering practices into the 19th century.
A fragmentary reminiscence on toasts at historic dinners mentions a bread morsel as a symbol of honor and notes famed speakers like Fader Se ry and Alphonse Karr. It reflects on law, equity, jurisprudence, and a physician dinner toast proposing "the health of the sick."
The Mexican Herald notes a perpetual banana harvest: a crop of bananas is picked on an ave every fifteen days year round. Each plant bears many stalks from one root, with one or more bunches cut from a stalk while others remain. In July and August cuts occur every ten days, and in December and January about once a month, averaging eighty days for the year.
A schoolteacher spots bright pupils solving a math puzzle about a rich man who leaves 1,000,000 dollars. One fifth for the wife, one sixth for the son, one seventh for the daughter, one for the brother, and the remainder to cover certain purposes. The prompt asks what each recipient gets, with a lawyer assisting.
A child peers at a nearby large building and asks Ruthie, who explains that the place houses orphans. She notes many boys and girls live there and mentions that Mr. and Mrs. are dead, hinting at a somber origin.
Harper's Weekly explains limits of the human eye and the fly's compound eye. It notes that a fly’s eyes contain thousands of lenses and that each lens forms a separate image, with overall vision depending on the optic nerve. The article discusses measurement claims and concludes higher animals do not surpass the simple eye for very small objects.
The ancient dog days defined the hottest summer stretch from July 5 to August 11. They derive from Sirius rising as the dog star after a period close to the sun, a time once linked to malignant influences. The concept spread worldwide as superstition and credulity.
Two children play in a yard as Taylor insists on her game because she is the visitor. Constance weighs parental teachings against yielding to Taylor and suggests returning to their own home to choose a game. The Indianapolis News reports the incident.
An engineer substitute, trying to run trains, misread the track and overshot then undershot a station. The station agent calmed the crowd by joking that they would shift the station, while the young man made a third attempt.
A witty fragment presents a logic joke about a person claiming to be sitting on their hat, proving the thief paradox. The speaker, Tahu Gee, muses on perception and deduction, illustrating logic’s power in everyday confusion.
The New York Globe describes the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence as cut off for five months each year by fierce seas. Seven thousand Acadians and English live in a remote archipelago of thirteen islands linked by treacherous shorelines. The report details coast wrecks, wary isolation, and the bird rock lighthouse outpost with four residents year round.
Suetonius notes two lavish feasts. Aelius Verus hosted twelve guests at a cost of 6 000 sestertia about 242 500 dollars. Vitellius fed his brother Lucius at a feast costing just over 200 000 dollars with 2 000 fish dishes and 7 000 fowls among other courses.
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