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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1911
Page
7
A Prussian cavalryman named Fritz faced a runaway horse racing toward a French battery. The horse’s wild dash exposed the guns to capture and led to a dramatic prize seizure. Fritz, keeping calm, gained control, earned praise, and was promoted to captain.
A man vouches for a candidate for a scrubwoman job and asks the examination superintendent how honest she is. The superintendent notes she is so honest she returns to the desk any item that looks valuable left in the wastebasket, night after night, until returned.
The earliest banknotes appeared in China around 2697 B C as flying money. They resembled later notes with bank name date note number and official signature. Printed in blue on mulberry fiber paper, some notes survive including a 1399 B C specimen in St Petersburg’s Asiatic Museum.
An old country couple rides a tram through London and waits as conductor calls names at each stop. A man alights at James Street a woman at Victoria Street two men at John Street. The wife asks if they should alight, but the husband reminds her to wait until their names are called.
A London dealer buys showy British uniforms to sell to African chiefs, sparking comic tales of natives wearing mismatched outfits. Stories recount a French general’s coat and a hussar’s uniform tight enough to suffocate, and chiefs arriving in pink satin, a Gainsborough hat, cavalry boots, and tin necklace.
Denver was founded by prospectors who settled on the site in 1858 and built cabins. Rapid growth led to incorporation in 1859 in honor of General J. W. Denver, with reincorporation in 1861 and becoming territorial capital in 1867.
In tropical South America and some Pacific islands the jacana displays a famed love dance. Males perform intricate wing spreading and feather displays to impress their chosen mates as the breeding season nears.
Preparatory to leaving for the season a Girard building lawyer entered a Chestnut Street shop and asked for rubber combs. The clerk offered a thin man's comb but the lawyer demanded a comb for a fat man with long teeth.
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