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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1898
Page
4
A humorous quip from the Chicago Evening News notes Mrs. Badger explaining her husband attends church in winter because he carries a gurney and fears dying when the weather is raw. The exchange highlights a dry wit about superstition and health.
The passage explains dodder starting with good intentions but sinking into dependence. It attaches to nearby plants, drains sap, and loses roots, leaves, and stems, becoming a parasitic organism unable to support itself. Professor Drummond describes this transformation as an example of life’s foregone independence.
A mishmash of fragments covers rainfall volumes and liquid equivalents, debates on Laplace and Poincare, a Brooklyn hotel advertisement, travel rates, a Parisian discovery on a light gas, and a note on furlough versus leave of absence for military personnel. The tone mimics a late 19th century Tribune roundup.
Reports show salmon pack totals for the Sound Fraser and Columbia rivers, with rising Alaska red pack estimates and substantial coast catches. Oil storage and intake figures, orange and citrus outlooks, new Alakak Salmon Packing Co. incorporation, shipping from Portland and lignite coal tests, hop pooling near Independence Oregon, cattle sales to California, and municipal bond activity in Great Falls and water-contracts in New Whatcom.
A listing of per box and per sack prices for fruits vegetables and dairy goods. Items include tomatoes cucumbers onions beets potatoes cabbage apples pears prunes peaches and more with rates for eggs butter cheese poultry and meats, plus grain and hay prices and regional fruit variations.
Elder Abram Perkins of the Shaker Settlement, aged 101, frequently walks over 20 miles to Concord New Hampshire. Jamoa A Davis died in Dorchester Maryland last week after steering the first steamer crossing Lake Erie.
In Anniston Alabama November 26 a clash erupts between white residents and negro troops of Third Alabama and other regiments. Gunfire injures Private Gildhart and several others while armed troops patrol and seize arms. Guard and city leaders move to restore order as casualties mount and reports of additional shootings surface.
The Portland built torpedo boat Davis surpassed expectations on an official two hour trial on November 26. She averaged 23.4 knots and covered 62 miles with no major issues, meeting and exceeding the required speed. Officials anticipate official government acceptance within days.
Strikers are weakening in Augusta Georgia as a cotton mill strike affects 6000 workers. Mill owners stay firm on cuts and say old wages will not return. Fire destroys Allen B. Wrisley soap factory on Fifth Avenue Chicago causing 105000 loss fully insured.
Italy has gained 294 square miles of land over 70 years as the Po delta advances into the Adriatic Sea. Professor Marinelli measured the change by comparing Austrian surveys of 1829 with Italian surveys of 1898.
Mrs Patrice Daneny of West Winsted Connecticut reports relief from female weakness displacement of the womb and related symptoms after using Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Compound. She says she can sleep work without fatigue no bloating and no further pain.
Miss Gerris Dowers of Franklin Nebraska reports relief from painful irregular menstruation after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she feels reborn and would not part with the medicine, recommending it to friends. Rog weaving is an ancient art. St Jacobs Oil eases muscle soreness after exercise. A new method mirrors celluloid silvering similar to early glass.
Measurements report several lunar elevations above eighty thousand feet with one peak at eighty eight thousand feet. The notes contrast lofty heights for a celestial surface feature with unrelated ads and observations about modesty hats and local commerce in Portland Oregon.
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