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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
8
Mandalay, founded in 1856 by King Mindon, sits on a tableland near the Shan hills and rises over five square miles. The city, once the capital of Burma, blends with a British military district and has become a long honored vacation spot with mild winters and hot summers.
The New York Times recalls 19th century alarm practice with bells from City Hall and other towers. A 1885 inventory lists a 11060 pound bell, striking gear, stove, clock, slate and book, used to warn citizens from South Street to Yorkville and along the East River.
A description of a popular fireworks illusion where a small pellet, containing mercury sulpho-cyanid ash, is lit to produce a snake-like puff. The text explains the heat drives the ash off rapidly, causing it to writhe and distort into a miniature serpent.
The excerpt recalls Benjamin Franklin's 1784 note from England describing London at 7 AM with all shops closed. He observed people living by candlelight despite daylight and noted sensible complaints about candle duty and tallow prices.
The passage notes German descent among residents of the region and asserts loyalty to the United States. It questions who gave the English names in the set Sementa St Louis Giche Democrat, implying a discussion of naming origins and cultural identity within a political context.
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The piece notes several diminutive churches in England. In Lullington Sussex a 16 by 16 foot primitive stone church serves about 30 worshipers. CrawshaBooth Friends meeting house hosts rarely six attendees. Jordans Quaker shrine bars many visitors for annual June pilgrim gathering to see William Penn’s resting place.
A London dealer’s catalogue reproduces a treaty signature reading Richard Rex linking Richard I to Francis, Duke of Brittany. The misread name fuels Shakespeare authorship debates and shows how signatures can mislead.
The agreement between Barnum and Miss Lind set different profit sharing options for two tours in the United States and Havana. One plan tied Miss Lind’s extra pay to profits from the first 75 concerts, while a fallback offered a share if the first 50 failed, but a rescinded contract led to a new arrangement that nearly doubled her earnings compared with the original terms.
The article recounts Du Chaillon as founder of a Paris crime school that trained youths like Charley Bates and the Artful Dodger in wrongdoing. A raid exposed the principal’s role, while physicians noted the syringe’s usefulness in medicine, shaping its historic reception.
A fragmentary reminiscence discusses diggers by dykes and floods, quoting Talleyrand’s reply to the Reign of Terror as a stark measure of survival. The passage reflects on radical change from revolution to empire and hints at broader historical cycles.
The piece portrays Winnipeg as a modest trading post before 1870, outlining its early role in regional commerce and hinting at the factors that would drive later urban development. It notes Indigenous and fur trade influences shaping the site and its strategic location along key routes.
Japan cultivates roughly 12,000 square miles of rice land to feed about 60 million people. Each tiny field requires levees and water canals, with many plots the size of a tennis court.
A story circulating among prominent women of the 400 describes Mrs Mackay taking part in a farmeretting scene on Long Island. A farm owner asked her to clean pig sties but she replied she handles bird cages at home, turning the moment into a witty reveal.
Niels Anderson chief machinist's mate United States navy received official commendation for risking himself in a ship engine room filled with live steam after steering engine exhaust lines broke. He initially retreated before courageously attempting three times to reach the steam source and finally cutting it off. Anderson enlisted in Norfolk Virginia in April 1896 with home at 2420 South Broad Street Philadelphia.
Charles Ferguson argues that the United States cannot rely on stores of wealth or legal claims like England did at the start of the war. He emphasizes the lack of capital and the need to rely only on current income to support the war effort.
A man explains his zigzagging street driving as a misapprehension about painted white lines. He claims he mistook them for pedestrian guidance rather than automobile lanes.
A dialogue frames a wartime view on money and sacrifice. One speaker insists money buys nothing without effort, while the other echoes the line I regret that money is everything I have to give to win the war, highlighting financial strain amid conflict.
A light exchange from the Boston Transcript imagines a plumber at home in the garden near the onion patch. The joke pivots on finding leeks as a pun on work and produce.
A Carlton gathering of farmers and townspeople backed a gasoline tax and a 50 percent plus rise in automobile license fees to fund roads. Resolutions called for a new bond issue by legislature without referendum and endorsed the Carlton Cherham Valley Newberg road project with Yamhill lawmakers urged to push similar road legislation.
A community that contributes at least ten percent of the cost of a proposed latera] road or other road project in cooperation with authorities shall receive priority consideration by road building authorities.
William Lindau of Oregon City faces grand jury charges after Etta Sherlock accuses him of multiple marriages. Hazel Murphy claims she wed Lindau in Great Falls and later learned of his other marriages, prompting arrests and bail set at 500 dollars.
Charles Otis Vandel born June 11 1870 in Decatur county Iowa lived in Illinois and Iowa as a machinist and farmer. He married Mary E Calender in 1903 and fathered Horrell E and Gailen T. He died December 19 1918 of throat trouble in Spokane Washington with burial at Newberg Oregon. He was a devoted Methodist and a convert of Billy Sunday who left a Christian legacy for his family. He is survived by his mother father brothers and two sons and wife.
Multiple property transfers recorded in Dayton area listings. Names include John G Enkman to Clarence and Elsie Townsend and John Harrington to A L Spohn. Several listings mention parcels described by townships, acreage, and payments from $10 to $2000, including Eola Hills Walnut Assn to Versa Weaver and Deskins additions in Newberg.
Real estate transfer notes show several deeds including L R Alderman and wife to Oregon California Railroad Co for 1 acre. Nancy Banks to L D Dusan for 280 Town of Dayton. Willard Bernard to Samuel's Parke for 29.76 acres. M W Birthfield to Jense Tirvine for Oak Park addition. James Comer and wife to Wm C and wife for 1-8 interest in Hurco subdivision. Esther A Cook to Cora C Laugh.
Attorney B A Kirke of McMinnville announces lowest mortgage rates with no delays and mortgages bought under clear terms. The notice also mentions a lost upholstered chair bottom on West Chehatern road and a finder notification to BG Pendail. Also listed are potatoes for sale and a buyer seeking 400 cedars and three miles of wire from an abandoned hop yard with delivery to Dayton Road Portland Oregon.
Land listing offers 20 percent acres 2 percent miles northeast of Newberg near spring water pipes to house and barn. Price 6600 dollars with half cash and balance on time. See Marks Mills at place or address Z Mills Parma Idaho Tet.
A short classified notice requests stock growers to contact Wealey Boyes at R. F. D. No. 2 and phone Blue 148 for fat cat arrangements.
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