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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1890
Page
1
Regular service schedule listed for evangelical church with second and fourth Sundays at camp, Sunday school each Sunday at 10 am, and evening worship on Sunday. Youth outreach urged and young men invited to attend.
A compilation of items from the Pacific Coast era notes testimony by Tacoma residents to a Congressional Immigration committee against Chinese labor and rising unemployment in the area. It also covers rail projects, port changes, legal cases, pardons, and local political shifts across Ogden Seattle Portland and San Francisco.
Eastern items summarize state and national politics with focus on Vermont legal reform, Nebraska farmers, stock markets, debt payments, pensions, and population counts. Includes references to New York Stock Exchange, Texas prisons, and railway franchise questions.
A Paris sheet claims Americans purchased 660000 acres of grazing land along the Rio Grande in Coahuila Mexico. Other items note a papal stance on church state union, uprisings in Congo and Salvador, prices for a yearling filly, and various European and colonial affairs.
The column reports a wide array of price quotes and market notes across commodities in Portland. It lists grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, dairy, canned goods, and meats with numerous per unit prices and percentages, noting the overall market as steady or firm with light to quiet demand in places.
A lengthy discussion on the teredo navalix worm explains its habit of boring into timber piles and ships. It details the worm’s anatomy from foot to valves, its unique independent passageways, and how it slowly weakens wharves and docks through tidal erosion. The piece notes its spread from tropic seas to Atlantic and Pacific harbors, with scientific classification and life cycle observations.
Professor Daniel Kirkwext notes that seven of twenty known short period comets have disappeared through fragmentation or orbital changes due to Jupiter. He argues two may be asteroids captured from orbits, suggesting the twenty were originally sinal planets. The piece blends other era commentary on eating habits and urban life in New York.
A poem by Helen T. Clark ponders readiness for death and the duty to keep weaving life as darkness approaches. The speaker, addressing doubt and fear, vows to work while the day lasts and to finish the unfinished task despite looming night.
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