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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1912
Page
8
Kimono fabrics and bath robes offered at 124c per yard with wool challies and percales in multiple widths. Shoes sweaters and blankets advertised with family sizes and colors. Groceries promised to meet customer wants with fresh clean items at Baird's Newberg.
For sale two choice O I C male pigs offered by S P Van Dyke at the cor North and Grant streets. Also an exchange notice from White & Company at 705 First street seeking small farm trades for city property. W E White will arrange deals.
Advertisement announces personal bonds as savings, urging readers to obtain bonds from New England Casualty Boston via agent Donald M. Wall at 207 First Street.
The partnership between Doctors Rankin and Doolittle is dissolved by mutual consent with Dr. Doolittle retiring. Books and accounts are with Dr. Rankin. debtors are asked to settle promptly to close the business. John S. Rankin M D L E Doolittle M D
Mrs King of the King Millinery Parlors successor to Mrs Hannon announces a Fall and Winter opening on Friday and Saturday. The new up-to-date styles will be on display with a full stock for Newberg ladies and surrounding area to inspect.
A young woman explains a lazy afternoon in the hammock with Robert Browning as her aunt scolds her for unbecoming conduct. The aunt threatens to write if such scandaldous behavior continues.
A curio from Switzerland, Valais women wear trousers for field work and daily life, while men rest. The piece notes the inverted role, with women in masculine garments yet preserving feminine behavior and manners, including riding sidesaddle and deflecting skirts.
A Puri report describes the Hindu festival of Juggernaut with a massive eighteen foot idol, a car wheels of eight feet diameter, and the annual procession where pilgrims pull the royal cart two miles to a garden rest. The piece notes reverent rites and the dramatic crowd scene as wheels sink into sand.
A historical note describes priests accepting minimal ritual contact as service and hired workers completing trips so journeys of two miles take two weeks. The text hints life hazards and suggests a decline of the festival due to these delays and dangers.
A west side laundress prints and distributes an odd notice about washing umbrellas. She explains customers surrender umbrellas for a thorough scrubbing with hot soapy water, soft brush massage, and glycerin on the ribs, then dried in sun to look like new.
Two anglers compare their catches and claim ever longer lengths. The tall narrator boasts a trout and a salmon stretching to his arms, while the short man counters, finally admitting defeat as he laments their arms are longer on the other guy.
A brief description of tailor methods for sewing on buttons. It notes doubling thread, tying knots, holding knots with teeth, twisting and waxing the thread, crossing a pin to set twist, then removing the pin and wrapping thread to form a stem.
A National Magazine note explains a sewing method that makes it easier to button garments. It describes sewing buttons in a way that allows more than one garment to be buttoned on the same waist.
A newly enrolled volunteer begins a drill with showy bravado but panics when a blank cartridge fires. The captain confronts him as the man runs away, insisting he is practicing as he would in real combat. London Answers notes a separate anecdote of a letter to French poets found in Paris.
The piece cites Bahrein in the Persian Gulf as the hottest area with yearly mean temperatures implausibly high. It notes July to September as unbearable for locals, with night readings around 100 and dawn temperatures around 140. It mentions straw chewers, straw in ears, and hiring fair customs in England and France as historical curios.
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