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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1918
Page
6
United States officers and legislature figures include W. T. Vinton of McMinnville and Ire C. Berber of Willetttina among the listed cadets and officials in the period’s parliamentary record.
Newberg Lodge No 104 A F and A M holds regular meetings on the second and fourth Thursday evenings each month. Visiting brothers are welcome. By order W H Woodworth W M John Larkin Secretary.
Shiloh Relief Corps No 26 holds meetings on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays at 2 30 PM in the I C O F Hall. Officer slate includes Mrs Minnie V nee President and Emma L Snow as Secretary.
An article by A. J. Sack states Russia including Siberia holds 1.125 billion acres of timber equal to 63 percent of world supply as a debt fund. Hardwood Record notes limited U.S. inflow except for Japan’s oak, with Russian lumber competing in western Europe eastern Asia and Pacific markets impacting global lumber trade.
Louis Shortridge has donated and transported about 1000 ethnological specimens from southern Alaska to the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The collection includes ceremonial poles, totems, lurid masks, and buckskin and Hudson's Bay cloth costumes. The pieces span a century or two and reflect diminishing tribal interest as natives adopt civilization.
The Hartford Courant editorial discusses revised barley use citing Bible times and Judges about Gideon. It posits barley bread as dense and potentially useful as a projectile while noting prep difficulties for bread. The Waterbury American comments on the piece.
A Scribner’s writer cites Heinz’s 1300 ivory carvings as among the finest collections in the U S. Ivory works span prehistoric to Renaissance periods and reflect global artistic development. Surviving pieces from Gothic to modern eras show remarkable continuity despite European upheavals.
Merle Sidener reports on a Los Angeles booster scene from a Western trip. An Oregon colonel from Portland was guest of honor at a LA banquet and urged a coastal piping joke suggesting sucking the ocean into the city. The quip drew mixed reactions among locals and visitors.
A high school graduate works as an indoor mechanic for the Santa Monica telephone system. She handles line work and pole climbing as well as men, aided by a love of mechanics and electricity. She plans to stay until peace returns and then pursue college education.
A young woman in a new car blasted her horn as she passed halted traffic on Market Street and Broad Street. The officer explains he halted her escape, thinking she signalled for him to move the Kinney building.
In Indianapolis reports a lively East Tenth line debate about city car service. Boasts compare Central guards College Illinois and South side lines for worst performance. A resident recounts a jiggle on a car that knocked a pencil from a neighbor’s pocket as the group drifted away.
A bootblack myths his customer with a joke about his cigar brand. The youth claims to smoke Robinson Crusoe often, then reveals he named the brand himself because Crusoe was a castaway. The customer is amused by the meta pun.
Frontline officers recall a famed Paris bootblack nicknamed the mud specialist who can identify a soldier’s trench section from mud on his feet. He reportedly rarely errs and can locate a man’s battle station from Ypres to Verdun by the mud’s distinctive marks.
Edward Barrett state geologist at Thirty sixth and Meridian streets gave up a seat on a Meridian Heights car. A young couple, seated apart, swapped seats after his gesture. They thanked him aloud saying it was kind of the deaf and dumb man to give up his seat as the car rattled on.
A column recalls a French colonel who repeats the same three-part family question to officers. To mock the routine, subalterns reply that their father is a shoemaker and mother a laundress, noting their sister is flighty. When the colonel presses for the sister, he learns the full reply and confines the officer until the sister behaves.
A New Jersey editor, a sportsman, received a reader’s request to dynamite a stream. He advised using four sticks of dynamite tied around the neck with a fuse then fleeing water to avoid harming wildlife.
Lieut Depret Bixle a French army naturalist and aviator notes insects chase captive balloons as they rise to nearly 3000 feet. Grasshoppers cling to the balloon basket and fall when the air thins. Swallows reportedly enjoy the pursuit and catching the insects.
Henry P. Talbot describes military gas actions in Atlantic notes detailing lachrymatory and sneeze gases that irritate eyes and nose, plus burning agents causing long term incapacitation. Mustard gas is highlighted as particularly destructive and linked to casualties in recent attacks.
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