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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1894
Page
4
An Art Amateur critique argues the boundary lies where poets separate from verse writers. It notes amateurs labor toward criticism while artists sketch boldly, with time spent dictated by opportunity and inspiration rather than future needs.
The late Senator Stanford, famed for cheerful giving, prefers funding work over cash. He spots a half clad cab driver and tests the horse for a ride to the capital. The driver’s fortunes shift from winter hardship to spring prosperity under his generous act.
An Auburn Bulletin recounts Edward Donnelly who saved an 8-year-old boy from drowning in the East River in April 1849 and later suffered paralysis from the cold plunge. He details his illness, treatments, and eventual improvement after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, with his wife Amanda Grantman contributing to the account. The piece praises Donnelly’s bravery and presents the pills as a life changing remedy.
The Philadelphia Press recalls the Irish pianist John Fiekl who studied with an Italian Clemente and lived in Russia. A priest asks his final question about faith, and he replies he is a pianist before dying. Also noted are Baroda’s 500-diamond royal collar and Otan the orangutan’s arrival in Philadelphia. Belgian and Dutch women are praised for their snowy linen via borax cleansing.
Zimri Dwiggins once built a banking empire in Oxford and through Indiana towns. He led the Columbia National bank in Chicago and a chain of Indiana banks before a state probe exposed methods misusing depositor funds. The closures left Todlawans with lost savings and a financial collapse across several small institutions.
A Paris debate on anarchist arrests sparks a riot as socialist deputy Thivrier shouts Long live the commune prompting expulsion. He is escorted out as the chamber clears and police eject him. Thivrier, a wine merchant turned politician, rose from coal mines to wealth amid working-class ties.
Tin asks a philosopher how he gained his deep understanding of men. The savant replies that his close association with and constant study of women shaped his insights.
A narrator awakes to total silence and a room transformed by deathly stillness. He fears madness but discovers the cause as his clock has stopped. The scene shifts to a child’s reading with a czar told of threats, ending with a royal crown quotation.
A Chicago Tribune snippet notes a quirky exchange about an old chinchilla overcoat. Noa and Shadbolt discuss its ownership while a barber previously spent 50 cents on clippers.
A San Francisco woman touts Calderwood's Rheumatism Cure for curing her daughter Fannie’s inflammatory rheumatism, freeing her from crutches after a brief course from the Market and Fourth street office. The item blends with other notices about cork powder innovations and assorted health claims from the era.
A garbled line suggests a mother estimates the marriage cost at about a million. The excerpt contains incomplete phrases and unclear attributions, offering only a vague sense of a financial figure tied to union.
An old advertisement touts small Dr. Pierce Pleasant Pellets as effective for liver and digestive disorders. It claims relief from sick headaches bilious headaches constipation indigestion and other liver stomach and bowel derangements. The copy cites a Georgetown expert and a customer endorsement praising the pills.
A narrative vignette describes a girl in agony at a performance and a companion’s sympathetic response. A parenthetical memory mixes parental dialogue and a classroom joke about Britain’s current highest figure. The tone blends sentimental theater with humorous quips from a different scene.
James Robinson of Princeton College lauds Ancoce’s Porovs Plasters for quick relief from cuts bruises strains and sprains. He notes cutting plasters into strips aids muscle support and explains use for back weakness and athletic strain. Other remedies cited include HANDRETH’s PILLs and Brown’s Lyronchial Troches priced at 25 cents a box.
An advertisement warns against mercury in remedies and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free. The product is described as taken internally and acting on blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials available. Sold by druggists for 75 cents.
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