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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1916
Page
4
A Brooklyn Eagle excerpt describes two French travelers in Dakar facing bizarre colonial rules. They must file stamped paper applications to the governor and chief colonial physician, then receive two noncommissioned officers bath tickets before they can bathe, with processing taking two to three days.
A humorous weather note in which a gardener and a mistress discuss the forecast, referencing a paper that mentions the word forecast. The exchange highlights the playful tone of a London Punch cartoon style.
A British mint report notes finger grease accelerates coin wear by chemical action. Fatty acids corrode copper in gold and silver alloys, forming salts and loosening metal. dirt on bronze coins contains copper as fatty acid salts. Handling detaches dirt, causing weight loss. initial rapid wear is mechanical, later chemical action accelerates deterioration.
Bremen is a republican free city with a mayor comparable to a president and a sixteen member senate. The Hanseatic League, once a ninety member coastal federation, was centered in Lubeck and acted to curb piracy and govern trade. Hamburg and Lubeck joined Bremen in forming a new Hanseatic union after 1660.
An old lady in a railway car overhears a golfer recounting a string of comical calamities on each hole. He describes diving into a blackberry bush, getting stuck atop a tree, tossed into a farmyard, snagged by wire, sinking in mud, and more, ending with regret that golf is an old man’s game.
A Pennsylvania property owner, aiming to teach arbitration, asks a tenant to agree to abide by his decision before he will arbitrate. The tenant, William, hesitates and asks to know the decision first, highlighting skepticism about self appointment as arbiter.
In a Chicago Journal excerpt a farmer who bought an abandoned property explains selling quarry rights and renting surface for golf to monetize land. He aims to lease air rights to a wireless firm, asserting intensive farming can pay off.
A watch owner reported a theft to police who later, seven years later, summoned him to testify about the robbery. The long gap raises questions about the efficiency and reliability of the proceedings under Spanish law.
A Topeka Journal snippet records Mose Semaine expecting to work, but receiving a reprieve after learning his wife died suddenly this morning. The brief note notes the emotional shock and a change in plans.
A playful exchange about liking La Boheme hinges on the dressing, as Toledo Biade and another speaker discuss preferences in a lighthearted dialogue. The fragment hints at culinary metaphor tied to art music.
The Pittsburgh Press notes a tense exchange as an old man fears the funds will be exhausted before he can access any of them.
A historical overview describes Mecca as a city of mystery with strict entry for nonbelievers and a focus on holy sites. It notes the Kaaba housing a sacred stone, the pilgrim routes, and the 1908 pilgrim railway improving access though danger still looms for outsiders.
The phrase codfish aristocracy marks a distinction made by early Dutch settlers between the Knickerbocker families and the down east merchants rich from whale and cod fisheries, the latter dubbed the codfish aristocracy.
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