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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1912
Page
3
A fragment discusses rebuilding devastated forests with active reforestation and taxation, noting that permanent scientific forestry could shift burden and help forests share taxation over time. It cites a Technical World Magazine perspective on long term forest recovery and policy.
A partial report describes a scene in which a person in an apartment building, a maid, and a guest interact at the door. A woman instructs another to tell a man to wait, saying she will return shortly, as voices and actions appear unclear from the damaged text.
A shipwreck survivor, reaching a telegraph station, sent his brother a note saying I am saved. Try to break it to my wife. The dispatch reflects his shock and the strain of sharing perilous news.
A fragmented note from a revivalist periodical urges April sowing to stay on time for spring crops. It warns May delays, suggests waiting until June, and ends with a farmer calling for buckwheat sowing as a remedy.
A husband protests when his wife returns an overcoat given to a tramp and reveals he hid a hundred dollars in the pocket. The wife answers with a sharp memory of a similar ruse two years earlier and hints she will shop for her dream tomorrow.
A Rehoboth Sunday Herald column recounts an English maid aged twenty nine promised to a groom for years yet unable to save $350 for a trousseau. The fiancé delays marriage over money worries, while the bride-to-be endures frugality and weariness, highlighting social expectations of bride wealth and preparedness.
The nests of the jungle fowl in Australia are the largest and heaviest on record, forming moundlike structures about fifteen feet high with a circumference of 150 feet. Built in sheltered spots, they are woven with leaves, grass and twigs by the fowl. Bush turkeys build pyramidal colonies with nests so large that moving them reportedly requires six or seven men.
The city of Ispahan, famed as a rendezvous, once boasted 173 mosques 48 colleges 1800 caravansaries and 273 public baths. Early eighteenth century traveler Chardin noted its wealth and grandeur before Afghan vandalism altered its fate.
Fragmentary text notes water ducts destroyed and bathers killed in a historic event. Mentions Ispahan and a large city with squares, with references to Tend and Sat plane and vanished structures.
An inquiry by the forestry service in Washington DC cited lifespans for several trees. The pine can live up to 700 years, silver fir 425, larch 275, red beech 245, the birch 200, ash 170, elder 145, elm 130, and oak heart rot begins about 300 years. A holly near 410 years old was noted in Germany.
Dean Ramsay recalls an Edinburgh old lady who had her maid report her health to the doctor every morning with compliments. One day the maid brought Miss B s compliments and the lady died that night at a stated hour.
A Minneapolis Journal discussion explores the growth and shapes of crystals, suggesting they renew their activity after damage and possess a remarkable force guiding particle arrangement. It notes crystals may seem to renew youth through crystallization, unlike animals and plants.
A Saturday Evening Post excerpt explains a two shell game setup labeled cloth and roll out. The cloth uses eight dice with a losing space no 23 and conditional bets designed to trap a greenhorn. Dealers manipulate dice counts to hide results while boosters herd players toward the losing number 23.
The London Mail lists techniques for memory aids. A businessman uses pepper on a handkerchief to trigger recall when reaching for it. Another method attaches finger rings to a key ring so missing rings prompt the user to think of the task.
A sportsman and estate keeper Sandy McKay fished a highland loch with poor results. After hours the gent offered rays, and when no whisky was available the keeper quips that the trout won t bite just as well with sherry, echoing the day s failure.
A Charleston resident kept duties to help the sufferers during the quake while sending his six year old son to his grandfather in New York. Three days later the grandfather sent a taunting telegram urging to "send us your earthquake and take back your boy."
A fragmentary dialogue featuring a sister reproaching a prodigal at a ball. The exchange centers on a coat ticket and a misplaced garment, with reference to a ball at McPhearson's and a troosere. The text captures a tense domestic moment.
The crew of a whaling vessel wrecked off Cape Parry during dense fog endured a perilous escape. Captain Tilton nearly lost his life as the Alexander struck ice, filled with water, and the crew and boats fought to shore through 400 miles of open sea. They reached the Mackenzie delta after days of exposure, traveling about forty miles daily in open boats.
The text explains how baptismal naming influenced religiously linked names like John and Jordan. It links William to William the Conqueror Robert to sympathy for a son’s misfortune and Thomas to a murder tale. It notes Richard I crusading fame and Paladin tales boosting Roland Roger Reginald, while Charles James George rise lagged until Charles I execution and the Hanoverian rise.
Napoleon meets an old one armed soldier who explains he lost an arm at Austerlitz and is not decorated. The monarch twice offers honors, joking about lost limbs, and the soldier immediately cuts off his other arm with a sword.
An eastern college graduate applies for work in a Michigan lumber camp. He works on a cross saw with an old lumberman who handles the other end. After two days the young man tires and the older man tells him to keep his feet off the ground while riding the saw.
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