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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1891
Page
4
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery as a universal blood purifier available year round. It claims effectiveness against blood taints and humors, stresses no alcohol or sugar, and touts safety for adults and children while listing skin diseases it purportedly cures. It ends with a proverb about men with shovels in their mouths.
Cold damp weather dulls body functions and worsens digestion and elimination. Reinforce health in winter with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters to improve appetite, strengthen the stomach, lift the spirits, and renew the body.
A jumbled old ad page touts Branson's Pills Brancrine Pills as safe cures for fever lungs and digestive ills. It claims quinine is harmful and lists other products like Doublins Electric Soap and Oregon Blood Purifier with vague health promises and no clear medical validation.
Mrs. Michael McCarthy of Portland visits Dr. Toel to remove a cancer growing three months. The doctor claims to remove cancers painlessly by electricity and advertises specialties in nose throat neck skin urinary organs and female diseases. Office at 704 Washington Street Portland Oregon.
An old sailor Bauche recounts seven days adrift from St. Malo after a gale near St. Pierre aboard the Mathilde. He keeps a cabin boy’s body from sharks, survives by improvised tools, and is rescued by Capt. Paderson of the Vindmir before returning to St. Malo via New Orleans.
The Chicago Herald reports a Pompeian kitchen cast showing a suckling pig mold in a cooking stove, preserved by lava as Vesuvius ash buried the city. The family planned a roast when the eruption struck, sealing the fate of the meal and its cook.
In a Paris Letter, Emile Zola asserts he is a socialist at heart and foresees a social upheaval beginning in Germany before the century's end. He cites the misery of miners and workers, noting 1789 aided peasants but harmed the ouvriers and hopes for a bloodless transformation.
Paris letters report a robbery at the residence of Cora Pearl yielding 120000. A captured robber served five years and later tried to recover the value in Germany, revealing an accomplice. The effort may recover the fortune but too late for Cora Pearl who died in destitution. Also notes a cementing mixture for iron works and a Montreal wedding of Rev John Prince and Mrs Cynth Wood after eighty years of secret loves.
Neat bracelets form from linked small nugget finish gold circles with a pearl centered in each piece. The design emphasizes delicate linked rings and a single pearl as focal point.
Miss Fanny Fuller and Mrs Guyton start a Bellamy inspired co operative boarding house at The Roby in Decatur. Fifty four members share meals for 2.75 per week with a resident superintendent, two cooks and three waiters, using a common stock of china and linen. Guests pay per meal and the project aims to abolish cooks in private homes and solve the servant girl question.
Robert Watts died at Felixstowe aged 78 after a heroic bid to rescue a crewman on Easter Tuesday. He joined a boat on Skipwash Sands twelve miles out and endured over ten hours of bitter cold before being found dead the next day.
A Chambers Journal piece surveys English word counts from 100000 versus 40000, noting derivatives inflate vocab totals and referencing Marsh and Johnson. It cites Shakespeare about 15000 words, Bailey about 86000, Johnson under 100000, and discusses philology progress and a Berlin surgical congress report.
Advertisements tout the Histogenetic System as the greatest invention of the age with testimonials from Seattle and Sacramento. Claims include rapid scarlet fever recovery, eye cure notes, and various medical products. Providers promise free consultations and emphasize exclusive agency distribution.
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