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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
4
The Newberg Graphic outlines its weekly Thursday publication schedule and office address at the Graphic building on First Street White Street Kesinehoe Blige. It notes post office registration and second class mailing status for Newberg Oregon.
In the April 1 1920 issue discussions focus on Wilson and the third term idea while a Hoover for President meeting surfaces. The Telephone Register outlines a county bonding plan for 340000 for road construction sparking debate over usage and oversight. It urges clear aims and careful supervision to avoid waste and delay.
The county court asks voters to approve a 340000 bond issue to build permanent roads over four to eighteen years at 5 percent interest. The plan aims to finish unpaved sections, boosting commerce and migration, but voters face a quandary as defeat would keep roads incomplete and slow growth.
The article salutes Jim Roach as a living symbol of spring and old printing craft. A veteran journeyman printer, he traverses 14 states, reads type marks, and treats advertising as sacred script, preserving craft knowledge from a bygone era.
A Devon belief holds that the battleship Montague wrecked off Lundy Island was lured to the rocks by the spirit of Sir Francis Drake whose ghost could not break the sight of the Spanish flag raised for a royal marriage. The tale was recounted at an Exeter Women’s Institute meeting.
A saying asserts that a man is judged by the number of bottles his ash heap contains, reflecting a paradoxical measure of character.
French schoolchildren gave the Statue of Liberty. American pupils will donate one cent and upward to Frederick MacMonnies’s memorial statue at Meaux. costs estimated at 250000 dollars. Albert Sterner designed the poster. Fundraising runs the week of March 22 with broad participation. Contributions received at National Headquarters New York.
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