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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1894
Page
4
A New York owner attributes near tragedy to his poll parrot which loudly alarmed him when smoke appeared in the neighboring house. The bird’s frantic cries likely saved property and may have saved lives a few months ago.
A Harlem family records a neighbor asking a young woman to play Wagner from 2 to 8 pm so the land lord can hear and grant a rent reduction. The piano playing is framed as a scheme to lower the rent, highlighting the landlord-tenant tension.
Fragments depict a burglar moving through a house while occupants sleep. He freezes as a voice laments revealing a failed attempt to steal jewelry. He escapes via window and roof, leaving no booty. The scene shifts to cryptic exchanges about literature and a grand political figure.
A damaged text fragment describes a contrast between peaceful pastures and a dreadful tale of carnage. The stanza images a bleak gray desert and a bleached skull pile, evoking haunting violence amid tranquil landscapes.
Lyng-Lan, a Chinese court musician, seeks a universal law of music. After thwarted rulers and magical rivers, he frees Sing-Lee with seven bamboo notes and a swan ride. Their escape leads to royal approval and a marriage in defiance of law.
A letter to Figaro contrasts Midway crowds with Parisian gatherings and cites Eugene Field’s quip. It then shifts to medical nostrums for liver illness and dyspepsia, praising Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, Allcock’s Porous Plasters, Braxpectn’s Prize, and Brown’s Bronchial Trache for coughs and throat diseases.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant laxative that cleanses the system and relieves colds headaches and fevers. It claims benefits for kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them and notes the product is sold in 50c and 1 bottles by druggists and made only by the California Fig Syrup Co with its name on each package.
One Tuerk water motor, new and capable of producing from ten to fifteen horsepower, available at a sacrifice. Interested buyers should address ALMER & Rey Portland, Dr. for purchase details.
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