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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1917
Page
6
A reflective vignette urges embracing happiness despite impermanence. A late night trolley ride frames a friend fearing happiness may fade, while encouraging readers to seize joy, note the high average of friendly smiles, and affirm courage in struggle.
A blend of baseball passion and moral reflection follows the Chicago White Sox tale led by Charles Comiskey the “old Roman” during a rain drenched crowd of about thirty thousand. Other essays urge that civilian morale fuels military strength and ponder happiness love and loss through shared stories and philosophy.
In a Fifth Avenue club lobby, scientists discuss war spurring inventions. They claim thought drives reality printing wireless telephony, erasing wires, and predicting ships steered from shore, trains fuelless, and gasoline grown like crops.
London Tit-Bits recounts a young man claiming a reforming conscience to dodge duties. The bogus conscientious objector grows eloquent until the chairman coolly asks if he would join the boy scouts, ending the farce.
A couple faces a 24 hour notice before a wartime voyage to France. He proposes on the spot, she adds a condition that they renew the proposal after his return and enjoy a proper courtship and honeymoon, despite wartime travel. The dialogue captures stubborn insistence on a traditional romance amid conflict.
A professional man estimates running his auto costs about 7 cents per mile including oil wear and upkeep. He travels weekly to the country for supplies and covers up to 50 miles, totaling about 3.50. He buys eggs butter and chickens at lower rural prices for home use and asks how much he saves.
Source quotes a man boasting about controlling a wife while another lines imply he is confined in an asylum and cannot prove his method. The remarks suggest a troubling view of marriage and freedom within a historical context.
Morning sermon Our New Evangelism for 1918 and an evening talk Doing Gods Will part four of the Lord s Prayer series. Sunday school at 9 45 with men s and women s classes. Y P S C E at 6 30 The Future. Wednesday 7 30 preparatory service for the communion. Watch night at Free Methodist church New Year s Eve 8 30 with gospel sermons singing and prayer. Everybody welcome.
Walter E Beckner and wf transfer to Alex Meins and wf eight rerange ment plat Hobson s Fruit Land Sabd for 575 dollars. AJ Bewley and wt transfer to PO Vaale and wf twenty acres and forty foot strip in AB Faulconer dict five sr six w for 3635. AJ Bewley and wf transfer to PO Vaale and wf twenty nine acres AB Fauleconer dict five sr six w for 2000. E Billich and husband transfer to Guy Grames and wf 3.209 acres Levi Hagey die t 3s r2 and 3w for 320. J D Brooks to F L Hill and wf twenty seven and a half acres Jos Hess die t3sr3w for 135. Clarence Butt and wt transfer to JC Crane and wf one four and five New berg sub for 2506.
A series of property transfers in Newberg and surrounding areas includes J C Callahan transferring 32 acres to B EO son for 625 dollars and 28 acres to Otto Olson for 525 dollars. multiple named buyers and sellers with sale prices ranging from 10 to 20000 dollars. Other deeds involve Herring family parcels, Hobson and Laver transfers, and various small acreages detailing metes and bounds in township and range descriptors.
The piece reflects on New Year resolutions and community service from a long standing hardware store. It notes six years in business, loyalty of old and new customers, and a pledge to uphold high standards of integrity and service.
The ad from Larkin Prince Howe Co says Christmas stock was good and January February lull is coming. It urges customers to plan for 1918 purchases, note of seasonable goods, tools, aluminum ware, kitchenware, and wood cutting supplies.
Highest market price offered for green and dried prunes at H. Gile and Co. Packing House. Local buyers seek quality consignments and prompt shipment entries.
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