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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
4
The Newberg Graphic is published every Thursday morning from the Graphic Building at 00 First Street. It lists office and residence locations and notes post office mailing as second class matter, with a yearly advance price of two dollars.
Corvallis Gazette notes Cox loses crucial Hearst backing after Hearst opposes the League of Nations. The paper argues Hearst influence could wipe out Cox gains among wet voters and veterans, sealing his near-certain defeat.
N L McCoy and family spent a few days at Tillamook Beach last week. James Poole of Dundee transacted business in Newberg Wednesday. Mrs Henry Luhr of Payette Idaho is visiting. Fred Hutchinson, struck by a train in Dundee, remains in Portland hospital recovering. Haskins, postal clerk in Portland, works nights and plays drums or sax on weekends in Yamhill Cape Horn Woodburn circuits.
Professor Hartley moved to a rustic cottage last Monday. Joe Wood and G W Grayson hauled brick for the Bank building from Hamnetts yard. Mr and Mrs John Hash sent a basket of large peaches and plums to the Graphic office. North room in the public building now furnishes four large airy school rooms. A road planned to run north from First street toward Wm McCollume or Lewis Has ins place, likely soon. Uncle William Hobson brought a sampler of apples pears apricots and peaches. William promised to prove peaches could be grown locally and has done so.
A letter to the Silent Workers of Oregon asks for support to feed 145 women, babies, and children. The appeal notes the season and requests extra fruit for shipment to Louise, with or without sugar.
The notice asks readers to form town clubs and ship canned fruit and vegetables to the Albertina Kerr Nursery Home for abandoned mothers and babies. It offers glass jars and prepaid freight, with shipping instructions to Gen. Supt. W. G. MacLaren at 195 Burnside Street.
Ex service men and families are invited to a picnic hosted by the Yamhill County Posts and Ladies Auxiliaries of the American Legion at LaFayette Locks on Sunday August 22 1920. Bring lunch baskets and enjoy ice cream coffee and music by the McMinnville band with possible Newberg band participation. Commander John J Rankin and Lester C Rees Post oversee event.
A humorous exchange in the Boston Transcripts recounts an Irishman at a zoo asking about a kangaroo and learning it is an Australian native. The punchline has Pat marveling that his sister married one.
The editor of the Toadvine Clarion reports a clash with a prominent suffragist who accused him of miscapitalizing the cause as he delivered a chant of Hail Columbia. The exchange mirrors ongoing tensions in the suffrage movement.
A scene from the Edinburgh Scotsman shows a mother and child amid a chaotic street scene. The child complains about boarding houses objecting to children as the baby cries and siblings quarrel in the background.
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