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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1920
Page
7
The Newberg Graphic issue from Thursday April 29 1920 notes postal details and office addresses, and mentions local humor about torn Golden Rule and robins taking straw votes while Chehalem Valley enjoys spring. It references Apple blossom time and Norman dy in the Chehalem Valley.
With May Day celebrations in Wenberg and Founders Day near Champoeg, Saturday promises a busy schedule. Community groups plan events and activities across locations, inviting residents to participate in the historic commemorations and local festivities.
A citizen notes that keeping a car and other major costs are pricey but some families manage to afford both. The remark reflects ongoing strain on household budgets and the challenge of budgeting for transportation.
In a busy household a good wife handles spring cleaning while supervising her husband in the garden, a task that blends domestic effort and outdoor chores into one demanding day.
The passage notes that several Portland clothing shops reduced prices, arguing this proves they previously charged excessively high prices. It asserts the cut is evidence of prior overpricing by the same stores.
The newspaper withheld publishing a member of communications this week because of a heavy workload and inability to set it.
The Oregonian notes Meier & Frank Co. has the largest mercantile business in the northwest aided by extensive advertising. The piece recounts political tension in city council over a paving program, resignations, and public tensions between official duties and popular wishes.
Advertisements for bids announce a 5 o'clock deadline on Wednesday evening for contractor submissions. The notice stresses urgency as the king’s business requires haste.
The Oregonian records a daily straw poll in Portland business houses and streets showing Hoover clearly in the lead with only the public favoring him.
Loganberry growers refused an offer of 13 cents per pound for this season's crop at Salem. Juice makers declined to bid higher, arguing sweeter juice would raise selling prices beyond ordinary trade. It is always the other fellow who is profiteering.
The article endorses J. H. Rees a Springbrook farmer and progressive horticulturalist with forty years in the region as a likely nominee for county commissioner. It argues his sterling worth and solid business sense would secure a large majority.
The article argues that McAdoo, as son in law, is the strongest current guess for the Democratic nomination. It warns that if Republican leaders in Chicago pick a standard bearer failing to meet voter expectations, McAdoo would be a difficult opponent to defeat.
The Hood River Glacier notes that insured car owners bear losses while corporate insurers take the hit. The piece warns vigilance committees may reemerge if auto losses mount, reflecting a repeat of past public concern.
Readers ignore Standard Of Co. warnings of gasoline shortage causing little change in automobile use. Advertisements appear aimed at tempering worries about rising fuel prices rather than reducing travel.
Business leaders across Oregon join Salvation Army advisory boards to extend Home Service programs statewide. The effort funds rescue and maternity housing in Portland, a new boys and girls home in Yamhill, and an industrial home in Portland to transform derelicts into productive citizens. Free employment bureaus matching workers to honest jobs aid families facing poverty and sickness.
Mills College announces a Sun Shine Guard program with 450 women students to guard the sundial from morning class start to sundown in relays. Miss Stella Riggs of Portland is named the first guard at the dial as the campus works toward a two million dollar endowment and possible kiosk.
Speakers at the county conference described a six day fundraising drive from April 25 to May 2. The Interchurch World Movement plans to raise 336 777 000 dollars through thirty denominational campaigns run simultaneously and with precise, survey based budgeting to avoid waste and overlap.
The plan assigns quotas by state and county, then to communities via local churches. Subscriptions totaling 175,448,349 are allocated across Foreign Missions 107,661,488 Home Missions 109,949,037 American Education 78,837,431 American Religious Education 5,931,925 American Hospitals and Homes 5,116,485 American Ministerial Pensions and Relief 20,610,199 and miscellaneous 770,927.
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