Professional Card Notices Insered at Ten Cents per Line
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13 Feb 1891
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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1891
Page
1
Column text notes professional card notices to be inserted at ten cents per line, indicating pricing and scheduling details for listings in the newspaper column.
The record notes a WoC TU business meeting on the second Saturday each month and G A T Sessions held the fourth and third Thursday evenings in each month.
The mayor and commissioner attended a city meeting, discussing governance and budget steps with Marshall Breeot chairing the session and outlining next actions for the council.
The Paulin common school bill has passed both houses of the New Mexico Territorial legislature and rests with the Governor who has pledged to sign. Also reports say the Idaho upper and lower houses approved a high license bill while Tacoma votes to issue bonds for city debt and a new city hall.
A panoramic roundup notes shifts in industry and policy. Mechanics Institutes planned in Richmond. Indiana debates wife whipping penalties. colonies in New England. U.S. pig iron led Britain. Milwaukee disinfecting patrols. Nebraska bans bucket shops. Maine temperance drives. Missouri tax and prison reforms. tariff fights over Hawaii. Commodities, railroads, and stock moves, including Vanderbilt and Edison stock shifts, are summarized alongside mining, coinage totals, and industrial bills across states.
Reports from Berlin and Paris describe shifting alliances as Portugal and Great Britain drift apart over tremors in foreign policy. Analysts note economic anxieties, military moves, and pressure on trade from Egypt to Europe amid global tension.
The Portland market report shows broad steadiness across grains fruits vegetables and meats. Wheat and oats hold steady with good supply and fair demand while vegetables remain well stocked and meats display active but stable trade in a busy merchandise market.
A scouting party from the Tenth Maine meets an old woman hiding in a log cabin at South Mountain. Spaulding questions her ethnicity and religion, she denies being Jewish or Unionist, but identifies as a Baptist. A disjointed scene follows with a request for champagne in a strained exchange with Walter.
The George Weetinghouse well at Homeworms near Pittsburg reached a depth of 4618 feet before tools were lost and drilling ceased.
A voiced meditation on creation and fall ends with a newborn child, hinting at renewal. The speaker Bennett Hella frames a mythic journey from harm to mercy and the return of pristine edenic memory through a child and enduring motherly sorrow.
In a Traditions of the Hollows tale a Walpole deacon courts a widow by offering to “go the rest of the way to heaven with her.” A rumor of Mrs Carter’s “breaking out” prompts a visit, only to reveal a heated exchange: she was berating her neighbor’s carelessness and the deacon misread her temper as a serious sin.
A Pittsburg Dispatch item describes a East End family scene where a four year old daughter, Mable, is found at the stair with her voice imitating her father’s telephone call to Central, asking to say her prayer.
A German citizen attempts to cash a check payable to Schweltzer case at a New York bank. He struggles with identification and mutters amid the teller’s insistence on verifying his identity. The exchange ends with mutual acknowledgment that the teller does not know him.
A distressed man tells a nurse in a Chicago Journal scene that he has gone forty eight hours without food, claiming poverty and truth while gratefully accepting a quarter. He admits recent whisky addiction and repulsion to food but vows to try eating.
In a Sunday school scene, Tommie refuses to be a little angel after seeing a picture of angels, explaining he cannot because he would have to give up his new pants. The teacher questions his reasoning, and Tommie holds firm.
In a brief exchange Mel He asks why sleeves are so full Nellie replies to allow room to laugh The talk turns to a fashionable Englishman Jord who is to join their party this season in Pittabarg bulletin style.
Fragment notes a waiter question about a pie described as evaporated apples. The exchange references a Boston Tran script and humor about the pie labeled as evaporated apples with a pun on “Ptac there is nothing in It.”
It reports a claim that Demosthenes nearly cured a stain by stepping on soap in darkness, but relief was only temporary. The piece notes worsening conditions in Ruasta and an uproar at a St. Petersburg concert where seven or eight pianists played on twenty four grand pianos amid disruptions.
The excerptplayful line discusses how the name Birmingham appears in local lore as a three word phrase meaning a broom bone bill. It notes its swamp English roots and curious linguistic makeup.
A narrator from Gond Nar recalls an ancient Pls scene as Area Serpent is described, linking heritage with landscape. The account preserves regional terminology and depicts a past event through local imagery.
A well known physician in town believes in the migration of souls and that his last incarnation was a cat. He shelters stray cats, cares for many pets, and even keeps aristocratic pedigree cats. A stuffed Persian cat in his hall reminds him of a cherished pet, reflecting his sincere but quirky conviction. Chicago Herald.
A sorrel fish-horse on Third Avenue refuses to move without breakfast, prompting a staged stall and a lesson from the New York Telegram. The clever animal, praised for routine and balance between appetite and work, demonstrates early a worker’s right to a meal.
A New York Tribune note describes a man dressed as a soldier parading on a building, drawing crowds of amused shoppers. The spectacle, with helmet and gear, is mocked as a failed promotional stunt, prompting laughter from observers including a little girl who compares him unfavorably to painted soldiers.
Advice from the Ladies Home Journal warns the brain endures the most abuse among organs. It lauds success as its best tonic while labeling failure as the worst depressant. It cautions youths against stimulants like alcohol tea and coffee and stresses eight hours sleep for brain growth and repair.
George Schmidt of Brooklyn wrote a threatening note to a Newark man, promising to spit on his grave. He was arrested under postal laws and fined 250. His chronic dry mouth prevented any actual spitting.
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