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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1899
Page
4
An early 20th century Ladies' Home Journal advert extols St Jacobs Oil as a universal cure for rheumatism neuralgia lumbago sciatica soreness bruises backache and other muscular pains. It also provides a recipe involving gum arabic sugar and egg whites in a separate preparation.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a purifier of the blood and a cure for pimples and eruptions. It promises overall health benefits including warmth, nourishment, strength, and prevention of illness, with a price and a claim of being America's greatest medicine.
A collage of odd notes and ads, including a mock deathbed confession, an 1880s cure-all claim for Catarrh, Liverpool workhouse size, San Francisco lodging rates, a Portland machinery ad, Moon mountains height estimates, printer mistakes in Albany reports, London railway cost, horse dentures, and fish flesh notes. Distinct entities include Frank J. Cheney Co, Toledo, Liverpool, Morrison Street Portland Oregon, and Man sion House to Aldgate.
An advertisement extols regular female bodily function and warns against painful menses. It quotes Miss Gen TRUDE Lions of Eldred MA praising Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for painful menstruation and leucorrhea, noting Mrs Pickham’s experience and inviting all women to write for health advice from Lyon, Massachusetts.
The new law restricts free miner licenses to British subjects or corporations authorized to hold them. Nonretrospective, renewals allowed for existing licenses but no new claims under renewed ones. Section 45 bans non subject trustees and non authorized corporations from holding or benefiting from claims. Naturalization requires good character and three years in the Dominion. In Upper Yukon, three river steamers will be shipped to Lake Bennett in two weeks, built like Missouri River craft, weighing 840 tons, drawing 12 inches light and 3 feet loaded, with 400 passengers and 200 tons freight capacity.
Anthony T. Prichard and Charles Stewart of Tacoma sold to North American Mail Steamship Company a steamship fleet including Steamships Olympia for 150000 dollars with Tacoma 127500 and Victoria 240000 as part of the deal. The vessels formerly ran under Northern Pacific between Tacoma and the Orient and now hold American registers.
A. B. Hammond leaves New York for Astoria to close a cannery combine if possible. If consummated, a Tacoma joint stock will form to raise the sunken Andelana ship, depending on insurer actions. Also reports on the Belgian King arrival, Puget Sound trade, and local legal matters.
Price table shows onions at 90 cents per 100 pounds, potatoes 208 25, beets 75 cents per sack, turnips 50 76 cents per sack, carrots 45 60 cents per sack, parsnip 1 dollar per sack, cauliflower 60 900 per dos, celery 45 60 cents, cabbage 1.00 to 1.50 per 100 pounds, apples 36 50 cents per box, pears 5.00 to 1.50 per box, prunes 50 cents per box. Butter 27 cents per pound, eggs 27 cents, cheese native 12 12.5 cents, poultry prices listed, fresh meat values, wheat feed at 23, oats 24 per ton, hay 9.00 to 11, corn whole 23.50, crushed 24, feed meal 24.50, barley 25 26 per ton, flour varied by type, millet and other grains with ton prices, chopped feed 20.22 per ton.
Grain and animal market notes list Wheat Walla Walla and Bluestem at 62¢ per bushel, oats and barley prices, millet and millstuffs, hay, butter and cheese values. Livestock quotes include chickens, hens, geese, ducks, turkeys, and beef veal prices. Fruit, vegetables, potatoes, onions, wool and mohair rates also shown. A prose item reports ice cream makers adding glue to mixtures, with several humorous anecdotes and classroom extracts from exams.
An advertisement praising Dr. Perrin for electricity based cures lists numerous patient recoveries from deafness to kidney issues and claims to strengthen vitality. It presents office details at 265 Morrison Street Portland Oregon and states hours and free examination with home treatment options.
A mosaic of curios including European royal families counts and German lineage, Egypt France quail trade, a Persian shah's gold arm chair tale, Victoria songs, mandarin habits, and a Paris theater health rule. Also brief patent medicine pitches and sewers in Mexico.
A warning about marriage echoes as friends counsel the groom to beware of a clever wife who might rule the home. He counters that matrimony is a choice between being controlled by a club or by taffy, and chooses the sweet tact of taffy. Their engagement is announced.
A wealthy lady offers 20000 cash reward for the recovery of jewels worth 140000 after theft. The item also notes health concerns, urging Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to restore strength and digestion. It mentions a new electricity aided method for producing iodoform yielding satisfactory results.
A Cornhill Magazine tale recounts a parish clergyman observing parishioner Jones cleaning his cottage to prevent infection amid rumors of twins in a prior couple. Jones explains his motive as whitewashing to avoid sickness as ten children are claimed to exist. An auction in Frankfort fetched a gold coin bearing King Ptolemy IV’s portrait for $500.
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