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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1896
Page
4
An old advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla promising strong manacles steady nerves and good appetite with refreaking sleep. It emphasizes blood made pure and uses vivid insistence on bodily benefits to persuade readers.
The Pal Mall Gazette explains icebergs originate from the antarctic barrier, rising 150 to 200 feet above sea level and sinking 1,100 to 1,400 feet below. Large bergs break from inland ice, drift northward, and appear near Cape Horn and the Falklands. As they travel, they shrink, fracture, and develop blue caverns and fantastical shapes for mariners to behold.
Describes a city blacksmith under varied urban scenes from a downtown forge with a bellows to a lofty steel frame workshop and riverside ironsmithing. Notes no spreading chestnut tree yet emphasizes picturesque surroundings and a wiry blacksmith as a mighty figure amid noisy steam drills and construction.
In a Chicago Tribune item, Dick recounts a dream of finding a barrel of gold in the woods and describes buying a top notch bicycle with part of the gold and spending the rest on candy. Johnny retorts about generosity.
A Seattle party led by Whiley and Esteha captures and tames a 25 foot calf whale named Bulshoy in Alaska and plans to drive it by bidarka to the Oregon coast between August 6 and 10. The team anticipates profits from public displays and possible future tameings as they voyage south stopping at Oregon and California resorts.
A blaze at 8:20 in Grass Valley's opera house originated in a Jamert and Webbe store and rapidly spread to nearby buildings. Nevada City firemen aided by scarce water contained the flames to the block bounded by Neal Church Auburn Bankate streets, with losses over 100000 and insurers often small. Other items report a July 8 marriage in Vincennes followed by a fatal duel, a July 27 neutrality proclamation reminder for Cuban insurrection, a Cravens Point tank explosion injuring five, a Crete Adomati district clash driving back Mussulmans and Turkish troops, and a note of a new machine that types and adds figures.
A Vandalia railroad freight train ran through a washed-out bridge near Crawfordsville Indiana killing Conductor Fowler Brakeman McKenzie and Fireman John Horber and injuring Roadmaster J and Brothers and Engineer Bowman. Prisoners in Bangor Maine jail to receive potted plants to foster reform.
Bradstreet's weekly trade review notes political uncertainty dampening merchants and industry. Iron and steel demand drops, pig iron production tightens, and cotton fabrics curtailments rise while boots and shoes demand shrinks. Wheat flour exports rise. US and Canadian failures increase, with 204 US failures and 37 in Canada versus prior periods.
Spokane, Aug. 8. L H Platter prominent attorney and Democrat shot in courthouse corridor, dying instantly. Henry Seiffert restaurateur opposed to Platter's court remarks amid probate dispute over Rudolph Gorkow estate and contested will involving a rich brewer and his actress wife. Other items chronicle railroad land patent issues, a Seattle cyclist's desert peril, a mass murder trial in Agram, Canadian racing ban on women, a Burgess house fire, and a San Francisco tailors shop electrocution death.
The narrator describes Granada churches with awe and critique, noting sunlit streets and shadowed interiors. They recall sacred ritual, gilded retablos, and the Cartuja visit, finding its gilded excess offputting yet memorable amid guidebook pressures.
Franz Csonka, 74, a feared figure of the Rosza Sandor gang, was hanged in Slavonia for murder after recent release from a twenty year sentence. His partner Sandor led volunteers in 1849 and died in prison ten years ago. The tale contrasts his hero image with a life of crime and ends with notes on other European anecdotes.
Instructions explain how to transfer drawings from paper to wood or metal using crayon or ink, caustic potash and alcohol, by moistening the copy and pressing it face down on the surface, for engraving embossing or other non photographic uses.
A brief dialogue from the Somerrville Journal features a mattress salesman remarking on life spent sleeping and a customer replying about his wife. The exchange reads as a light, humorous note on domestic life.
Morning and evening malarial risk discussed with Hosteller's Stomach Bitters as protection and remedy. Numerous ads urge prevention, cure for dyspepsia, constipation, kidney trouble and rheumatism. Also notes on cordage production, a claim for Piso’s Cure, and a school in Burlingame. Catarrh treatment and Kline nerve tonic ads appear, along with South Carolina dispensary profits for the quarter ending March 1.
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