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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1910
Page
3
The article unveils Benjamin Franklin called Richard Sanders maxims from 1758 Pennsylvania almanac. It lists short, practical aphorisms on thrift, time, industry, diligence, money, and discipline intended to guide plain readers and support the idea of circulating Wise adages on bonds and deposit cards.
Clarence True Wilson argues against women's suffrage at a YMCA ball in Portland. He critiques the use of the phrase taxation without representation and contends it does not apply to individual voters. The address analyzes historical context and aims to refute suffrage arguments.
The text argues women are not represented by husbands or relatives, and questions whether taxation equates to voting rights. It notes many without property or vote still pay taxes and that corporations and foreigners pay taxes but lack votes. The Oregon State Association opposes extending suffrage to women.
Astrology described as an ancient practice spread from Chaldeans and Egyptians to Hindus and Chinese and then to Rome. It faced banishments and persecutions yet persisted through Ptolemy and the Islamic world, with universities in Bologna and Padua teaching it and Napoleon among believers during later periods.
George Ethelbert Walsh reports from Washington Star on a London University scale system that weighs a seven thousand millionth of an ounce to prove light and gas have weight. A sealed gas tube is weighed in a dark underground chamber with a silica beam scale, measuring imperceptible forces from sunbeams and invisible gases.
In Central Park Standish and his wife encounter a cigar case in a bypath and face temptation after prior near misses. She urges restraint while he debates returning it or keeping it, only to discover the item matches his own, revealing a moral clash over honesty.
A Francis Pigon tale parodies truth through two sides of a remark. A kingly claim about subjects meets a blunt keeper’s wit, contrasting honest dread with confident bravado. The gamekeeper notes a noble lord’s poor aim and sharpens the joke with a cleaner miss.
In The Parson's Pleasance Rev P H Ditchfield recalls the Low C Lancastrians’ choir devotion. A duchy doctor on a bridge spots a man waist deep in water and asks why he stands there. The man replies he must sing bass in Handel's Messiah and cannot reach the lower C without catching a cold.
Viewpoint of Office Boy recalls a caller asking to see the editor and being told he has just gone out for the third time. The boy shrugs and suggests the editor was born under a lucky star.
A thrifty resident of Chatville refuses to celebrate paying a druggist by drinking at a soda fountain. When offered free drinks, he asks for a bottle of ink instead, sticking to his principle of avoiding unnecessary spending.
A well known poem tells how Achmid guards his wondrous mare. When a robber steals the horse, Achmid and his tribe pursue but spare the mare to keep her fame intact. Achmid signals by pinching her ear, and the mare remains renowned.
Erfurt features beautiful public parks along the river Gera and a large municipal workforce of landscape gardeners and laborers. The city owns Steiger Wald for public recreation, a forest extending for miles in the surrounding region, while bridges and river life create a Venice-like image.
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