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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1901
Page
1
A medical student Martin Dobree aids a cliff fall survivor on Sark Tardif brings him through a storm to a fisherman’s cottage. The wounded woman’s refined beauty unsettles him as he tends her broken arm and confronts growing feelings and duty.
In a tense scene a physician, Dr. Martin Dobree, comforts a gravely injured woman in pain after a broken arm. He assesses her pulse and confirms his identity as the doctor tending to her, while the patient endures sharp pain from the elbow fracture.
Richard Harker of Newcastle on Tyne notes American coal shipments to England, praising Virginian soft coal for high steam output. He cites Norfolk and Newport News as key ports sending millions of tons annually to naval and industrial uses.
A dialogue shows a twentieth century classroom with strict hygiene norms and isolation measures. A pupil named Jack answers affirmatively to inoculations and personal equipment and is cautioned about fumigation, then jokes about social engagements. The piece satirizes modern health practices and social obligations reflected in a wide set of invitations.
A ragged man asks a house keeper if there are odd jobs available for him or his wife. The keeper replies that such scrubbing or washing work is not available. The exchange appears in the Philadelphia Record.
Gallus Ritter von Hockberger born around 1908 is believed the oldest qualified physician. He has practiced for seventy one years and still gives medical advice. The piece notes his imperial court role and long career, with a proverb about the ranagressor guiding to foreign shores.
Boers in Cape Colony activity resumes while a German steamer sinks and eight sailors perish. A Jersey City gale damages buildings. Sizeable events touch U.S. labor strikes, smuggling rings, and public safety crises from coast to coast. Nor mass headlines include killings, shipwrecks, and political shifts abroad.
Washington authorities announce major arrests in an Arizona smuggling ring moving Chinese nationals across the Mexican border. William A. Hoey and B. F. Jossey, with two Chinese suspects, face treacherous collusion claims as investigators expose bribe payments and marked certificates indicating paid access.
Heavy rains across the state caused severe floods with four fatalities in Mauch Chunk and widespread destruction. Bridges and culverts were washed out, collieries flooded, rail lines interrupted, crops ruined, and business halted from Tamaqua to Shamokin and Wilkesbarre.
War department report compares seven months to January 31 1901 and 1900. Imports reach 17 999 167 dollars up from 12 674 705 in 1900. Exports total 12 617 359 dollars vs 4 305 530 in 1900. Overall import value up 42 percent and export value up 52 percent.
Notice received at the American Smelting and Refining Company office reports a shipment of Chilean cold ore to Omaha. It is the first South American ore for the plant and an experiment. success could lead to a large scale follow up shipments.
A brief review highlights Polk county hops yields and brewing prospects, Portland-area log rafts, rising building activity in Eugene, large grain harvests in Polk, a Canby store robbery reward, and Baker City carnival preparations. It notes Newport water agate quality, Albany fruit driers, a new 80 foot steel fire bell tower for Athena, and timber damage from fires in Josephine county. The Owl and Elephant mines sell for 11000 to a Maryland syndicate with a planned 500 foot tunnel. The La Grande Cove motor line advances beet growing, a new 90 horsepower boiler boosts Athena touring mill, Rogue River threshing yields about half a crop, and drought plus late snow affect water and streams in the Blue mountains.
A reading of commodity values lists Wheat Walla Walla at h5 b6c per bushel, flour grades around $2.00 to $3.40 per barrel, and oats at about $1.10 to $1.15 per cental. Across millstuffs hay butter eggs cheese poultry and livestock values are given, with hogs, veal, beef and wool quoted in current per unit terms.
The piece notes Kansas wheat attaining its highest grade, a projected ship load of Filipinos to work Hawaiian sugar fields, England's per capita tea consumption at about six pounds, and a Yukon Alaska directory listing 16 000 residents published by a woman author.
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