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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1915
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR lists officers in the First District with names Willie C Hawley N J Sinnott and Thied District figures. The garbled text includes Salem The Dalles and Portland references.
Bobby, dressed in ragged trousers, rides in a shabby hansom to a conservative uptown street. He arrives at a grand house and insists on seeing a woman believed to be at home, persuading the butler to admit him for a private word.
Bobby Shacklett returns to Mary Wadsworth with lost funds and a confession he fears to name. She pressures him, claiming to know the whole story, while the butler below stairs talks of the scandal and a tramp. The scene unfolds with tension over love, money, and secrets.
The piece discusses farming risks from weather pests and market failures. It notes farming as a stable business despite hazards and contrasts merchant failure rates. A reflective farm perspective on resilience and economics appears in dated prose.
The article recalls brutal acts by Malagasy officials against orchid collectors. A German fancier was captured, oil poured, and burned alive in the forets. Another collector was left to die, suffering madness months later.
Dr James Frederick Rogers cites tales of Dickens Scott Wordsworth and Tolstoy among others noting daily walking ranges from five to over a hundred miles. The piece argues great men often had strong physiques and that imitation risks fatigue or harm.
Fragmented historical notes recount Daniel O Connell's early schooling in France, legal career after returning home, and his role in the 1798 rebellion era. The text cites his imprisonment in 1844 and death in 1875, with Gladstone hailing him as a world renowned popular leader.
In Mrs. Alec Tweedie’s account Thirteen Years of a Busy Life she recalls a journey from New York to Mexico. She notes packing jewelry including her ring and watch chain and a maid’s panic over their disappearance while traveling.
A description of scientific instruments that detect tiny tilts in the earth. The text notes an instrument can observe shifts as small as one three-hundredth of a second of arc, illustrating extraordinary precision in measuring plane tilts.
A fragmented exchange contrasts clerks and a professor on earnings and irony. The dialogue hints at scrutiny of pay and value in work, with a wry tone typical of opinion satire.
A garbled note reads like a humorous miscommunication about buying eggs. The speaker scolds the recipient for purchasing many eggs instead of one, mentioning an “aid lay” and a suggestion to buy a dozen. The fragment ends with unclear phrases and no clear event or names.
The article explains several submarine periscope styles from simple tube designs with prism tops to panoramic versions with fixed tubes and crank operated prisms. It notes advantages and limitations such as image clarity depth cues and horizon surveys, plus a brief humorous interjection from the Birmingham Age-Herald and a jokey exchange about clothes.
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