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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1893
Page
2
A dated compilation page shows a mix of local items and commentary. Notable bits reference the Portland area, mentions of prune yields near Eugene, Western labor and migration notes, a Lincoln monument in Edinburg, and appointive news about KR. J. Hexpucks at the StateSman becoming Reform School superintendent.
The two Japanese World’s Fair delegates publicly confess new Christian convictions after guidance from Prof. Black of Central Christian Church Chicago. Mixed weather favors farmers, health is good, but finance remains tight amid broader concerns of arid times.
At a horticulture board meeting a hundred dollars is allotted toward the fruit palace at the state fair. The exhibit will be a volunteer effort by fruit growers with credits to contributors. A pamphlet listing contributors fruit variety and where grown will be printed for distribution at the fair.
Oregon readers follow the dry goods soldiers’ antics at Camp Compassion as Neleon dies from a bank cartridge wound. The piece condemns the spending and cites a brutal World’s Fair float torture of Quackal Indians, calling for moral scrutiny of fundraising and sensational shows.
A writer invites readers to visit PE UH Skinner and his wife to learn fruit growing from a life long expert. They will tour the orchard and new barn, inspect basement storage and tools for orchard work, and discuss cultivation methods to improve yields and avoid common mistakes.
The article recounts Mr Skinner revitalizing a neglected hillside orchard in Oregon. Ground cleared and deep plowed, trees propped and pruned, with neighbors astonished by the transformation. Prunes are abundant, cherry trees promising, and production forecasts reach 2,090 to 3,000 bushels, proving well-cultivated fruit sells at high prices.
A Salem Statesman editorial notes a Eugene deal where 40 acres of prune trees sold for 1 200 per acre totaling 48 000. It cites prospects of high profits in prune growing though market price rumors temper expectations. The Rural Northwest and Medford Mail discuss prune losses by fire and James Stewart’s large pear and apple holdings with plans to ship to Chicago and New York.
The state board of education named TH J Hendricks editor of the Salem Daily Shateeman as superintendent of the state reform school. He will accept the appointment and assume duty September first. The editor will guide the school with the same journalistic attention he has given his coastal Oregon career.
F.Al. Bryant, previously engineer and acting superintendent, is named assistant superintendent disciplinarian and engineer at the Capital Journal institution. The state gains a gentleman and wife with intelligent progressive ideas on youth education.
Multiple items report Newberg andArea activity including real estate transfers and noticeable trading as merchants flee higher Southern Pacific rates. Other notes describe church calls, fair planning in Oregon towns, wheat yields in McDonald county, and travelers visiting relatives and the National encampment.
A New York woman helps an aged trackman by retrieving his dropped hook and hat from the gutter. Onlookers smile as she performs the small act with dainty flourish, delivering the items with a polite smile and quiet dignity.
The Price Baking Powder Company of Chicago offers a free copy of Table and Kitchen a culinary guide with over 400 pastry and cookery receipts plus table setting tips. Send name town and state to receive postage paid. German or Scandinavian version available. postal request preferred.
In the winter of 1970 T traveled from Greena Bay to Chicago. The fragment notes a thrilling incident during this journey but provides no further details about events, people, or outcomes.
An Oshkosh to Madison rail journey hosts a delegation of lawyers including the Y M C A chair and a Chicago runner who play a high stakes card game. A grandmother aboard recognizes the judge who sentenced her son ten years prior for robbery, revealing the family tragedy and casting a sober, somber mood over the carriage.
An elderly widow testifies via tears and sketches about a bank robbery tied to a beards party on a fateful night. She recalls the judge and prosecutor, laments lost family, and pleads for mercy as onlookers, moved, respond with quiet respect aboard the train to the courthouse.
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