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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1905
Page
6
A worn traveller recalls a wedding day at Little Bethlehem. After a chance encounter, an old farmer offers breakfast and five dollars, learns the boy’s tale, and hints at a deeper family link as a portrait of a long-dead daughter hangs in the cottage.
A newlywed narrator recounts leaving her husband and home after a month of marriage. She describes a secretive escape from the house through a window, descending to the garden, and fleeing along a bright night to become a vagabond, vowing not to reveal her sufferings.
A historical note on cart dogs in the Low Countries where dogs pull carts loaded with vegetables flowers or milk cans. It describes Belgian mastiffs mixed with Great Danes, the evolving stock, and the social scene as women milk carriers guide and regulate the dogs.
A humorous snippet has the mosquito claiming it almost froze last night while the fly disputes cold weather. The mosquito then admits it attacked a Boston man by mistake, framing a comic clash of insects and urban names.
English is taught in the public schools of Japan. Japanese youths in towns and cities are eager to learn English as a passport to wealth, position and employment.
A DIY hand snow plow uses two three foot boards cut to form a V with a five foot handle and reinforced end block for a firm grip. The piece discusses honey color, feeding changes for fattening animals, gradual ration adjustments, and risks of overfeeding, citing Iowa Homestead.
Investigations by the New York Agricultural Experiment Station Geneva over four seasons show thinning improves fruit size color and quality but reduces quantity. Unless higher prices offset the cost the operation is not profitable. Bulletin 239 gives full details and can be obtained by mail request to the station director.
An Indianapolis News description shows how to fashion a labor saving stirrer for large kettles. It details a wooden shaft with paddies, a crank, a top pole, and a wide board strip to ride the kettle handle. A brick and cement fireplace for away from home cooking completes the setup.
The color of honey ranges from water white to dark brown. Consumers notice no difference in taste to color, though color affects price. Light honey comes from clover caweed and mountain sage, while dark honey is sourced from buckwheat.
A reflective verse from The Gentlewoman highlighting modest living over luxury with faith in family, stating the mortgage is paid, and all efforts toward keeping life steady and children raised. It emphasizes contentment and readiness for life’s end.
An old stove is used to smoke meat by routing smoke through a long pipe into a box. Increase the bet slightly, drive nails as hooks on top to hang meat, and cut a side door to insert the meat. The stove allows controlled, safer fire.
The cabbage aphis is a major pest that multiplies when conditions favor it. Ordinary pesticides have little effect. use kerosene emulsion diluted with ten parts water applied to the undersides of small cabbage leaves. Spring fumigation of seed stocks with carbon bisulfide eliminates the original brood. The pest is nasty and should be treated wherever found.
Advice on gathering dry earth or road dust to sprinkle under poultry roosts and on the floor. It absorbs ammonia, reduces odors, and helps keep the coop clean, with low cost and easy implementation in fall and winter.
Instructions advise not turning eggs for three days and after day nineteen and to keep the incubator level. Feed and trim the lamp daily, open the chamber only to turn eggs, and let chicks cool ten to thirty minutes. Do not open after piping. a struggling chick should not be aided.
One Hundred Years Ago letters of in- dignue and reprisal were issued by Great Britain against Spain. Mr. Livingston American minister to France left Paris for Rome on business of state. The tailors of New York City formed the first trade union. Cronstadt and Stivel yards were busy as a fleet neared readiness. A clash at Antwerp saw Spanish and American sailors fighting amid misidentification with English forces as Austria Prussia and Russia negotiated for continental peace.
The State of New York acquired 8470 acres from the Oneida Indians who were to relocate farther west. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad nears Ellicott City Maryland with daily pleasure trips. Ireland consolidates customs. President's message reaches New Orleans in four and a half days, the fastest Washington to Louisiana run then. Queen Christine of Portugal dies at 54. The American minister to Colombia secures indemnity for vessels captured by Colombians. Riots oppose labor saving machinery in southern England.
Reports state the Victoria bridge over the St Lawrence river was carried away by ice pressure. New York mayors orders closed liquor shops. War of 1812 veterans and Indians gathered in Washington to press Congress for 150 acre land grants. Southern and southwestern merchants formed a New Orleans convention. Erie riot disrupts railroad, tracks torn up and bridges demolished. Unemployed New Yorkers march with banners demanding work. Canada’s Governor General orders restoration of officers who opposed the government in the patriot war.
Forty years ago a Missouri convention passed an immediate emancipation ordinance as mass meetings in Northern cities organized supplies for Savannah. A rail bridge over the Mississippi at Clinton Iowa tied central and western Iowa to Chicago. The Chicago stock exchange formed with J C Hilton as president. Incomes in Illinois First District showed Potter Palmer John V Farwell and Peter Schuettler as the only Chicago residents earning over $100000 annually.
The trial of Theodore Tilton against Henry Ward Beecher opened before Judge Neilson in New York. Emile Pereire, renowned Paris banker, died. Richard B. Irwin alleged misdistribution of 275000 dollars of the Pacific Mall subsidy, a matter disclosed to a congressional investigating committee.
President elect Grover Cleveland reportedly re aligned as New York governor while London papers warn France may declare war on China. English editors press Gladstone ministry over foreign policy as Madrid reports Spain earthquake casualties and displacements amid cabinet illness and wedding news.
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