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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1900
Page
4
A testimonial from Ella J. White of Ennis Texas lauds Hood's Sarsaparilla for curing blood diseases and catarrh. She notes improved appetite after using the remedy and emphasizes the product's proven record.
A Detroit Free Press tale follows a man who pleads before a police judge after sleeping in an open doorway. He recounts a fall from being a stock broker chasing copper iron mining and pork stocks, ending with his quip that he is broker now more than ever as he admits having no money.
The Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company and Oregon Short Line add a buffet smoking and library car to the Portland to Chicago through train and inaugurate dining car service. Train features include clair cars day coaches and first class sleepers with direct connections at Granger to Union Pacific and at Ogden to Rio Grande. Rates and information available from any Rh N agent or W H Hurlburt Portland.
A permit grants Seattle Electric Company a new trestle along Ballard shore between Omaha and Alva streets and another west of the present line along Salmon Bay. The company plans a $50,000 upgrade to serve Ballard growth, including three 160 horsepower motor cars ordered from Eastern manufacturers and track reconstruction on Western avenue.
Bradstreet notes woolen goods demand for next fall and dry goods for spring rising, with woolens up 25 to 40 percent. Weather hampers seasonable goods, while lumber prices may hold due to milder weather and lower stocks. Woolen manufacturers report heavy order books. cotton goods remain in strong demand. Feeder data shows weekly business failures at 252 nationally and 39 in Canada.
Market rates for Seattle area goods listing onions lettuce and vegetables, fruits and dairy. Prices cover meats, grains, flour, hay, and miscellaneous staples with figures for potatoes, cabbage, apples, pears, butter, cheese, poultry, and wool from regional suppliers.
The page lists various farm prices by item and region for wool, hops, dairy, millstuff, hay, beets, potatoes, citrus, and tropical fruits. Items include Wool by region with cent per pound rates, 1899 hops prices, creamery butter, eggs, mill by product prices, per ton hay, and fruit box and per pound rates for oranges lemons limes bananas and dates.
A Peoria man learned to ride at 61 and now, at 72, has logged 60,000 miles in 11 years. He erected a monument with a bicycle figure at his burial spot to honor his cycling career. In Boone county Mo a saloonkeeper was fined 150 for selling to a minor in the county's first case under the new damages law. Our Increased Trade With China notes that England cannot compete with the US in shipments to China. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is praised for correcting constipation and indigestion. A restaurant joke about greasing the waiter appears. Dr Kline's Vitality tonic offers a free two week trial. The Republic Steel Company expands with 14 Indiana plants. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is recommended for teething children. About 80,000 boxes of oranges have been shipped from Manatee county Fla this season. Buffalo carpenters will earn 25 cents an hour on April 1. Eight beet sugar factories were built in Michigan within a year.
The piece asserts more people go mad in May to July than other times and that suicides tied to insanity rise in summer. It then notes Piso's Cure for Consumption origin in 1965 from J R Madison of Chicago, mentions a wine burial found in Southampton Long Island, and includes ads for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It also reports Belgian miners moving to Russia and a cotton mill in Atotorcillo Mexico and that two thirds of world sugar comes from beets.
A feature praises Salt Lake City as a vital rail gateway with the Rio Grande Western line connecting east and west routes and notes popular winter and summer travel. It highlights local attractions including the Mormon temples and Great Salt Lake while urging readers to obtain a travel booklet. Also mentioned are wage gains for Auburn workers and a chemist’s remedy advertisement, plus San Francisco carpet price regulation and U S iron and steel consumption figures.
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