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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1912
Page
6
A simple oil on water experiment yields ever changing circular and oval film patterns. Using different oils creates distinct designs, and transferring the pattern to paper and ink produces white oil designs on a black background. Each drop appears unique, offering endless varieties to preserve.
Frederick the Great kept a chocolate ritual in his breakfast room at Sans Souci. A giant spider’s web painted on the ceiling marked a near murder moment when a poisoned cup was nearly served, prompting the king to memorialize the web and spider figure in the room.
In a cozy boarding house room the star boarder asks the landlady to marry him. She declines, noting four years of prompt payments and no complaints but says he is now too old to be put on the free list.
Mark Twain recalls war hardships with a siege era joke. He quotes a Frenchman who boasted about eating more than twenty dogs during the siege of Paris, inviting shock at his claim and the woman’s icy reply.
A Washington Herald joke exchange features a young man with prominent socks and a girl with matinee hair arguing over a fortune teller. The man cites a prophecy of marriage while the woman retorts about inheriting a large fortune, noting the teller gave no such information.
The article describes early New England taverns as legal necessities under town oversight. It notes licenses, roles of officials, and use as meeting places. Laws from 1634 to 1664 aim to limit drink, require good beer, regulate consumption, and curb disorderly singing.
A small boy guards the front door and confronts a visitor who seeks Margaret. The visitor asks if he is Mr. Hamlin, but the boy insists he is not and explains he would earn money by revealing her arrival, preferring not to tell the wrong person.
A list of prominent writers and poets whose names begin with H. Mentioned are Thomas Hardy, Rev E J Hardy, Joseph Hook, Silas Hook, Fergus Hume, historian David Hume, Hugo Hatton, Holmes Hatton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Laurence Housman, Hazlitt, Theodore Hook, Basil Hood, Thomas Hood, John Hobbes, Bret Harte, Andrew Harraden, and Edward Harraden, among others.
The article paints St Kilda as Britain’s most remote inhabited island. Far out in the Atlantic about seventy miles west of North Uist it measures seven miles around and is ringed by sea cliffs. Eighty residents live there with no horse, tree, or bush. women do most work, no tax collector, and inhabitants are said to reach a hearty old age.
The cravat traced to Croats in the Balkans known as Cravates. They wrapped shawls around the neck and shoulders. During Louis XIV's reign the Croat fashion influenced regiments with shawls at the neck. The style evolved as the shawl shrank to the narrow cloth strip we use today.
In a Chicago Record-Herald style vignette, William H. Packingham enforces strict access rules with blanks for visitors while his wife bursts through the door, flouting guards as “rules are off” when she appears. Bunch McGavick reflects on the boss’s leniency post intrusion.
A Civil War surgeon, famed for his florid rhetoric, faced scorn from a colonel who used the surgeon’s tent as a mess table. The surgeon protested to the general, lamenting no fly between his head and the star decked heavens, and the reply ordered a fly to be placed there at once.
Oregon Agricultural College opens the fall term on September 20 with courses across agriculture sciences engineering arts and professions. The catalogue and illustrated literature are mailed free on application to the Registrar in Corvallis Oregon.
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