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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1911
Page
6
Chess prevails in Strohbeck where all ages play the game from schools to inns. Graf Gunnelin’s dungeon chessboard legend explains the town’s enduring passion and the jailer’s role in teaching the game.
Railroad workers recount a Kansas train crash where rails spread and cars derailed, a porter warned of repairs, then a passenger cried out with neck and chest pain. The piece also notes the thistle as Scotland’s national badge arising from a Danish night march that trod on a thorn and inspired alarm and defense.
Maurice Maeterlinck argues that restraint and inward focus forge enduring achievements. He cites that notable men avoid speech while shaping plans and reveal clearer purpose once noise is removed.
A witty exchange arises over Mrs Whinger’s health in the Birmingham Age Herald. The dialogue mocks enjoying bad health while noting her penchant for detailing symptoms.
In the Gainesville area, alternating prairie and lake scenes appear as seasonal watercourses. The Sink near rock walls holds underground rivers that shift drainage. other sinks stay round and small. Devils Millhopper north of Gainesville and a Brooksville pool draw locals with mysterious, dangerous pools and whirlpools.
Darius of Persia received a cryptic message from Idanthuras of Scythia containing a mouse a frog a bird an arrow and a plow. The army’s wisest men debated its meaning once thought to signal surrender but the intended interpretation warned that without flight like birds burrowing like mice or diving to water they could not escape Scythian weapons or flee the country.
The ship’s log says the wickedest sea is not the Dover strait nor the Cape Horn routes but lies in rounding the Cape of Good Hope near the eastern parts of Cape Colony.
The text notes palaces of the period boasted grand decoration but poor comfort. Windows were small, furniture was splendid yet uncomfortable, and fires were rarely lit except in bedchambers. At Versailles in 1695 water froze in the king’s glasses at table.
A nervous man entered a grocery with his baby and a kerosene can on his arm. He set the can on the counter and told the clerk to “sit there a moment” while he spoke to the baby and added that he intended to fill this thing with kerosene. The incident left the clerk dazed and unsettled.
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