Classifieds mix of sales and notices in Newberg area
A collage of late 19th century ads and notices from Newberg Oregon including cash for furs, jewelry store holiday specials, real estate lots for sale, dried prunes wanted, old fir wood for sale, thoroughbred fowl offers, ribbon and millinery sales, interior finish plans, organ sale, candy shop and window sales, theatre promotions for Anne of Old Salem, Lost bank notes reward, trade offers, opera confections, and a Studebaker wagon for sale. Many entries mention local merchants Wilsons Jewelers Newberg Drug Co Hollingsworths Duncan’s hall and the Opera Confectionery along with addresses and phone lines Mutual and Bell. Regular prices and seasonal promotions populate the page with varied goods and services including produce, timber, and miscellaneous household items.
Rest After Meals And Its Effects On Digestion
The text discusses how hurried eating and immediate employment drain nerve force, causing irritability and imbalance. It notes the need to eat slowly and allow the stomach half an hour to work before directing nervous energy elsewhere, suggesting fewer cases of suffering when patients practice this.
Dancing by Halves in Harlem Dance
A Harlem bachelor recalls meeting a beautiful woman who could only share half a dance. He agreed to half a waltz, then she left him for another man, turning a single dance into a tale of playful rejection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem
Fragmentary London Sketch dialogue on fashion and reminiscences
A garbled London Sketch passage shows Shari and Brown discussing fashion articles for a ladies' publication while Robinson plans a Far Western Reminiscences volume. The fragment hints at a farmer like Rea and a brief pause in conversation before shifting to another topic.
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Shari
Ant
Brown
Robinson
Livi
Po Rea
London
Emerald mines and control of emerald market
The piece notes that Colombia dominates the world emerald market, with mines tied to an English syndicate under a twenty year lease to sell at least 1.25 million dollars in emeralds annually. It mentions the Duke of Devonshire owning the largest emerald, a near nine ounce six sided crystal.
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Colombia
South America
Duke of Devonshire
New York American
Starry Yearnings in a Fifteen Year Refrain
A dialogue unfolds as a man longs to be a star and a woman suggests a comet, arguing that if he were a comet he would appear only once every fifteen years, a peculiarly lyrical exchange from the London Fun.
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London
Also Mentioned on This Page
C.a.ban
Atty
B. A. Kirks
McMinnville, Oregon
Crater
Wilson’s Jewelry Store
W. E. White
H. S. Gile & Co
Newberg
O. Martin
Bell
Vincent Feed Store
SaLte
S.C
S. M. Hoskins
Gregory Sisters Millinery
Callon the Newberg Mig. & Con. Co
Santa Claus
Wilson
P. Cripas
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
M. B. Church
Hollingsworth
Old Salem
Dolis
W. W. Hollingsworth
Ezekiel
Duncan's Hall
E. L. Requa
Springbrook
Ore
Opera
Newberg Drug Co
Harry Miller
Roger
E. H. Woodward
Graphic Office
Portland
First Street
J. P. Dopce
Jersey
Mutual
Opera C
Drug Co
G. W. Byers
Beaver Realty Co
Studebaker
C. O. D. Newberg Wood Yard
M. P. Eown
Chase & Linton
Queen Investment Co
Island
Oregon
J. L. van Blaricom
A. E. Wilson
Clarence Butt
Bank of Newberg Building
Thos. Herd & Son
E. A. Ellis
General Contractor
Swege Cse
Stee
J. C. Porter & Co
Newberg, Oregon
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