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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1890
Page
1
The readable fragments describe a local event involving individuals named Salle and others, with unclear context and missing details. The item reads as a damaged snippet from a newspaper listing or notice.
Presbyterian Church holds services on the first and fourth Sundays at 14 4 and 7 90 FM with Sabbath school at 6 am. Rev. W A Willieon pastor. Friends Church offers Sunday services at 11 am and 7 pm and Thursday at 10 am with Sabbath school each Sunday at 1 am and monthly meeting on the fret Saturday. Evangelical Church meets first and third Sundays at 10 am and second and fourth Sundays at 7 pm with Sabbath school each Sunday at 1 am.
Devotional services held every tenth day evening with young men urged to attend. C F conducts sessions Saturdays in Moore's Drug Store rooms. YWCA T U holds monthly business meeting on the second Saturday. G A Ht meets first and third Thursdays. WWCTU holds third Saturday afternoon business meeting.
A fragment lists officials such as F. A. Morris treasurer F. H W. Howard and D. P. Stratton street commissioner along with councilmen Calvin Stanley J. D. Carter and Geo Grayson, indicating an informal roll of Newberg civic leaders.
San Diego Chamber backs Blaine letter as Navy anxious over Monterey. James G Colmesnil, ex US Consul at Samoa, faces forgery charges in Seattle. California sprouts tan bark trees. distribution planned. Alexander Thompson convicted of first degree murder in Jackson Cal. life term. Four vengeful Indians to be tried in September for Bullock murder near Mariposa. Desert land fraud hits Lassen county. Salt Lake county results show Liberal majority. Mormon officials win top posts. Santa Fe rail line washed out between Benson Nogales. Sonora cut off. Santa Cruz river floods. San bi Chamber backs reciprocal trade with Blaine letter to Frye. 23 Chinese smuggled into US via Lower California detained in SF. Oregon protests census miscounts. calls for recount. Puget Sound Chatangas elect officers. Sailors on Louisiana report mistreatment aboard ship. Oceanic Steamship wins San Francisco Tahiti mail contract. service to begin next year. Island steamers to meet Australian, Honolulu schedule. Oceanic launches new steamer for potential conversion.
Eastern crop news notes Virginia and North Carolina tobacco harvests as reported fine. The Grant family objects to the removal.
A long European and foreign update notes Russia enlarging the Black Sea fleet with four more ships at Sebastopol and Nikolaies. Other items cover politics, finance, and figures from Hamburg to Mecca, Rome, and London, including census results, strikes, and imperial proclamations.
A bustling but mixed Portland market shows small offerings with firm overall tone. Prices for vegetables fruits and meats span many items including Oregon and California produce, dairy and nuts, with numerous quoted rates per barrel per box per pound and a steady meat section.
Twenty four sailors tried to seize a boat as excursionists landed at Newport RI. Pursuit by the crew led to shots fired and finger cutlass injuries. all but three were captured during the landing near the torpedo station.
Excerpt blends a floral riddle with a poetic reflection on a rose bloom in spring. It moves from a budding bud on a rose stem to questions about the flower’s future color and scent, interwoven with distant notes of reservoirs and Asiatic origins. The text then shifts to discussions of American Indians and Mongol descent, Aztec links, and a Dutchess county cavern tale, all drawn from historic notes.
A father discovers Willie astride a drum while Johnny torments the cat and Tommy rattles, as Bobby Stapleford and Harry Playmore incite dogs and roll a barrel. Several youngsters pound pans and yell until Willie shouts Chicago board of trade, and the uproar erupts anew.
The curious Hilkington known as Squire Hawley was buried in his own garden beside slain cattle from rinderpest. He lay in full hunting dress with spurs and whip inside a heavy stone coffin lowered by crane. His pony, dog, and fox lay beside, all estate left to his groom under a Roman Catholic church bequest.
A London Globe story recounts a prince rebuked for eating with his fingers and threatened with removal under the table. After a surge of good behavior he repeats the offense and is ordered under the table where he undresses, arguing dogs lack clothing.
The text notes Crofton the naturalist and geologist claiming the earth formed in a 600 year dark period with intermittent lightning and thunder. It adds he has no affidavits to publish and invites belief as readers see fit.
An English naturalist states the moth existed 00 years B C. Cleopatra, after spending 10000 on fine clothes in a year, paid an artisan 2000 to craft a head chest to protect her wardrobe from moth damage.
A humorous quip from Youth's Companion features a husband who agrees his wife’s praise of his devotion is true, but detours by suggesting he could only endure dismemberment if the pieces are larger. The exchange highlights old timey marital banter.
Eugene Fields London Letter notes Terr Hofer of the Dresden Institute estimates the Reichstag members speech rates. Rickert 158 words per minute, Herbert Bismarck 144, Fehr von Stunan 48, Dr Bam berger 129, Herr Singer 121, Dr Bushing 2. Despite short words, German terms stretch the pace.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt shows a father enraged at a teacher who whipped his son for laughing in class. The boy defends the teacher, calling him a great big man, while the father demands action.
A Chicago clerk charged with larceny was acquitted and quipped that jurors cannot convict if a defendant confesses guilt. The Halifax jury also acquitted a man who pleaded manslaughter amid defense and prosecution petitions for conviction, as reported by the Wilmington Messenger.
A garbled excerpt mentions an elevator boss and a passenger in a playful misquote of a counting joke. The fragment references a New York Sun line and a complaint about ups and downs in life. It reads like a humorous dialogue about being the four hundred twenty second man.
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