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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1913
Page
6
The article explains that cork and wood float due to trapped air, not lighter material. As depth increases, water pressure squeezes out air, causing submerged timber to sink. the buoyant balance depends on air pockets and depth-related compression, highlighting why ships survive surface yet fail when deeply submerged.
A Windsor garden party anecdote shows Sir Henry Ponsonby sending a universal note of thanks to entertainers for the queen. The letter praised the troupe of geese and wished the performers safe travel back to London in good health.
Tungsten, a dense metal, withstands extremely high heat without melting, enabling incandescent lamp filaments. It can scratch glass, is alloyed with iron to produce hard self hardening steels, and tungsten steel tools resist temper loss at redness. Magnetic tungsten alloys are used in ice industry components. Metallic tungsten is prepared by electric furnace reduction.
A Mexican snail from the glandinidae family gains note for cannibalism and is proposed as an import to France to curb the pest snail problem. An adult glandina reportedly ate ten snails in one day.
Lawrence Hodges notes from the Chicago Record-Herald recount a professor of physics explaining how a baby’s body scaled by cubic weight on two feet length would weigh about one sixteenth a five foot man while surface area scales raise heat loss. He cites heating and cooling differences, feeding needs, and a practical cloth saving example.
The New York Commercial argues that structural strength differs with ship size, noting that a row boat can withstand end stresses while large vessels like warships or ocean liners would break under similar strain. The piece cautions that ideas that work in small models may fail when scaled up.
The New York Tribune quotes an American in Manchuria praising Dairen bean mills which produce about 63,000,000 pounds of bean oil and over 10,000,000 bean cakes annually. Most bean cake goes to Japan, which last year imported about ninety percent of the oil by products. Japan also bought over 100 tons of beans in natural form.
A wife complains to a neighbor that her husband is a very mean man about some things and deaf to her pleas. The neighbor suggests she address the other ear, noting one ear is good, though the wife says he won’t reveal which. The brief comic exchange appears in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In a Pittsburg Post item the pretty teacher praises the boy but he says he didn t know of a reward and admits his big brother did the sums. The exchange ends with a humorous note on honesty.
A fragment from the Washington Herald recounts a ticket office moment with dialogue about a woman delaying a purchase and a girl at the window ahead of her. The piece captures a brief social vignette in a newspaper style.
A brief note recalls Higgins and Wiggin s old classmate Whis wire now thriving in literature. He shows a lively imagination and is said to be doing splendidly, specializing in excuses for married men Chicago News.
An old saying inverts challenge by urging individuals to become the defining force in their life. The adage frames adversity as a mirror, suggesting growth through self-directed effort and resilient action.
A Chicago News description details Lapland customs including reindeer skin boots with upward curved toes for skiing. Nomadic Lapps gather twice yearly at Easter and midsummer for fairs with weddings and funerals. Social equality persists until men acquire their own herd.
The New York Sun reports that within two weeks of Mahmoud Shefket Pasha's assassination the Turkish authorities executed thirty-two men involved in the conspiracy. Turkish custom permits wide retaliation for the murder, extending to those remotely connected. The piece recounts a legend of royal danger and a chain of executions including a lodge of 118 members and a eunuch who claimed the rockfall was an accident.
The article notes that the famous blind fish from Mammoth Cave avoid light and die when placed in brightly lit aquaria. It suggests that light is directly fatal to these sightless cave dwellers, a common trait among cave inhabitants.
An aside of devout thanks to God for existence and rational nature, for life’s joys, means of improvement, and the loves entwined with his own, honoring the time and country of his life and the beloved.
A sailor on leave narrowly escapes danger when an omnibus rounds a busy London road and a quarrel erupts with the conductor. The sailor rains rebuke on the driver as a sharp exchange follows in a brisk street scene from London Tit-Bits.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note explains methods to suppress a sneeze by pressing the upper lip or the chin area to halt the nasal irritation. It discusses the olfactory and fifth cranial nerves and why pressure prevents the air expulsion, with caveats about timing and appropriate contexts.
The artist James A McNeill Whistler is described as prone to conceit but often mischievous in talk. At a house party an excited guest praised his work after a river trip, prompting Whistler to quip nature is looking up.
A brief exchange shows a potential suitor asking for objection to marrying a daughter. Mr Comrox candidly replies no objection but warns that presenting himself as a friend will be misread by his mother and the girls as lacking social standing, prompting caution about appearances.
Polo, an eastern game long favored in Persia, Tartary, and India frontiers, shares main rules across regions. Similar sports exist in China and Japan, reflecting a widespread polo tradition.
A playful remark about a wife running a strict home routine. The husband must punch a time clock in the hall when leaving at night and upon returning, reflecting a humorous domestic vignette from a Los Angeles Times feature.
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