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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1921
Page
4
Newberg Graphic notes a short story titled A City Wife by Prof. Alexander Hull of Newberg. The issue lists news notes from Rex, Chehalem Center, Fernwood and Lad Hull, with some items too late for this issue. Procrastination is the thief of time.
The Ellison-White Chautauqua association may shift to a nonprofit, promising no war tax on tickets. Prune Week boosts prune bread use as bakers replace raisins, with 14 pounds of prunes per 100 loaves and Salem bakeries producing 650 loaves daily, signaling a growing market.
Press dispatches publish a full suggested cabinet for President elect Warren G. Harding. Names include Charles Evans Hughes as Secretary of State Andrew Mellon as Treasury John W Weeks as War Harry M Daugherty as Attorney General Will H Hays as Postmaster General Edwin Denby as Navy A B Fall as Interior Henry Wallace as Agriculture Herbert Hoover as Commerce and James J Davis as Labor.
Mark Twain recounts a sermon for salesmen where an eager contributor moves from a dollar to twenty, borrows more, and finally falls asleep, then steals fifteen cents from the collection plate when awakened. The anecdote illustrates restraint and irony in persuasive speech.
Portland plans a 1925 Atlantic Pacific Highways Exposition following the 1905 Lewis and Clark success. The city formed a company with 5,000,000 capital and seeks congressional recognition and a formal invitation to foreign participants. Julius L. Meier backs the project.
A Portland advocate argues for a major United States exposition in Portland harnessing 21 000 000 horsepower, citing regional assets and improved highways. He cites figures from prior expositions on returns and attendance, and urges civic enterprise for broad, four year financing without heavy burden on any single period.
A poem-style call to action urges students to boost their class through local support and booster activities. It emphasizes positive boosting over criticizing others and encourages showing good points of peers to foster communal growth. The piece credits J. C. Akers from Newberg Oregon.
The First National Exhibitors' Circuit presents Shipwrecked Among Cannibals at The Star Theater on Wednesday and Thursday March 2 and 3, showing close up life of New Guinea islanders and their rites. The piece depicts violent reactions to gossip with a sensational tone. Following the run, Lew Cody stars in Occasionally Yours tomorrow and Saturday, then Grace Darling in Even as Eve on Monday and Tuesday.
The Baker presents a slate of programs starting tomorrow and continuing Saturday. Highlights include Lets Be Fashionable with Douglas MacLean and Doris May, Wanda Hawley in Miss Hobbs, and John Barrymore in Dr. Jekyll.
Nine girls gathered at Ina King's home north of Newberg for a Washington's birthday party. They sang patriotic songs and played games before refreshments at 5:00 p.m. Guests included Thelma Cummings Erma Martin Elva Morgan Ella Ray Elma Staley Minnie Rolston Mary K Newell Hallie Irene and Ina King.
Lawrence Gilman notes Franz Schubert died poor with a small inventory of belongings and manuscripts valued at about four to five dollars in today’s terms. He contrasts Schubert’s poverty with his lyrical genius and cites Sir George Grove on religion and Providence.
A humorous dialogue snippet contrasts Bowlegged Bensonhurst and Flatbush as a bowlegged man in a narrow alley meets a mad dog. The exchange plays on urban quirks with a witty punchline.
A humorous dialogue features a hopeful suitor promising wealth and a pet menagerie including a bull terrier a fighting cat a parrot and a chimpanzee to woo a daughter and secure a home like the one she knows.
A fragmentary exchange features Dora and Dorise with playful teasing about appearances and a smut on the nose, captured in a candid conversational snippet. The tone suggests a light domestic or informal scene.
Trade Commissioner Eliot G Mears notes advertising in Constantinople requires four language newspapers to reach cosmopolitan readers. Turkish papers yield best results due to larger Turkish audience and stronger ad impact. Street ads are not legally protected and tram car ads are not used. newspaper circulations range from Greek 4k to 12k, Armenian 4k to 8k, French 6k to 8k, Turkish 10k to 16k.
American industry now produces rare sugars once controlled by Germany. Sugars like dulcitel mannose xylose and raffinose fetch high prices and are crucial for medical labs and bacterial testing while Belgian authorities deploy a mobile farming school to bring instruction directly to farmers via a motor caravan classroom.
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