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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1909
Page
2
In a tense room scene Wheaton guards a brown parcel as Margrave closes in demanding the bundle. Fenton interrupts, Wheaton reveals Evelyn Porter’s certificate, and Margrave mocks his position while planning to exploit the stock and Miss Porter.
A New York Sun writer notes a heated scene aboard a car where women and many men discuss how to handle a mischievous boy. A calm gray-haired woman remains unruffled as others argue about discipline while one speaker recounts raising thirteen children.
A man limped into the police station with a black eye and a bruised arm seeking protection. He addressed the officer as captain and asked if he was a married man or a umpire, signaling a quarrel amid open season for baseball.
A quirky dialogue shows a narrator bragging of tracing ancestors who were crooks to prove personal virtue. The exchange blends pride with a hunt for family misdeeds, reflecting themes of heritage and reputation.
The Portsmouth dockyard near Portsmouth England employs 8 000 to 8 500 workers who stream in and out at shift changes. The yard dates to 1843 with expansions in 1864 and now spans 300 to 400 acres with basins docks and shops including 120 fires in the large smithy and a dozen seven ton steam hammers. It houses seventeen dry docks some large enough for Dreadnoughts and King Edward ships, plus basins rope mast block making boat sheds stores gun mountings and coal yards. The commander in chief admiral’s houses and naval study and navigation facilities complete the extensive complex.
A humorous collection of brief sketches as Lusitania passengers wait for porters in New York. An energetic Adams-like porter proclaims his Cunard adoption while spinning boasts of escapes, followed by other city anecdotes. A band leader and a busy professional play out comic misperceptions and quips, ending with a Presbyterian clergyman’s quip about the Assuan Dam.
Mrs. La Touche of Harristown in The Letters of a Noble Woman plays with numbers, claiming arithmetic is not exact science. She quarrels with sums, noting perceptible mutations and hidden laws of numbers that ordinary accountants miss. If you add from bottom to top and then from top to bottom the results differ.
A woman questions her new servant with the line Did you wash the fish? The reply mentions washing anything that has always lived in the water in a humorous exchange.
A moonlit winter wedding turns tragic as a mother reveals she is the bride’s mother and the infant dies. The couple die by suicide or tragedy, leaving two graves and a tale of a fatal wedding whispered by firesides.
Mississippi Valley Historical Society officials visited St. Louis University to inspect the Kaskaskia records dating from 1695. The archives cover baptisms marriages and burials of old Kaskaskia near Peoria and later Kaskaskia along the Mississippi, now stored in a fireproof iron safe.
The Brooklyn bridge area marks the rise of Gustavus Lindenthal from journeyman to renowned engineer. His works include the Manhattan bridge the Williamsburg bridge and the Queensborough bridge and beyond to the Hell Gate bridge linking New York New Haven Hartford and Long Island Railroads for a direct New England to west rail route.
Orme complains of sameness in Jack’s dancing and suggests variation. Jack asks how to change the routine. Orme counters with a playful jab about stepping on his left foot to mix it up.
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