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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1918
Page
3
A gentleman in a barber shop notices the attendant wearing rubber gloves while cutting hair. He asks why, and the attendant explains this keeps their celebrated hair-restorer from causing hair to grow on his hands. He sold a bottle.
A London correspondent notes floods in England in 1912 damaged about 35 million dollars and displaced 100000 people around Norwich Ipswich Nottingham and Leicester. Paris floods in 1910 caused over 30 million dollars in damage, with 1875 submergences at 15 million. US disasters include 1889 Susquehanna floods with 6000 deaths. 1913 floods fire and storm kill 7000 in Indiana and Ohio, with 250000 homeless and 10 million damage. 1911 dam burst at Austin Pennsylvania destroyed the town and 4000 died.
Real estate transfers listed include G B Abdill and witto J E Nelson in Day ton for $300. Thos P Hodgson and wf to John C White on Walnut Hill No. 2 for $1250. P P Olds to Alfred and Rachel B Wilson on 14 5 6 Lafayette for $300. Lottie Letherman to JC Betherman 67.95 acres. Walter S Parker and wf to Vera N Holt 13 acres. AH Dean and wife with David L Hannon on Chehalem Mountain Orchard for $1250. W T Macy and wf to Paul Kreider at Oak Park Add McMinnville for $500. Mary D Warner to Louise B Kirks in Oak Park Add for $10. F W Faris and wtto David L Hannon on Chehalem Mountain Orchards for $10. E F Rowland and wt to Quay C Snodgrass s 2 e44124 Cozine's 2nd add McMinnville for $10. Smith Stephens and wife to Mil ton Cox and wf 96.47 acres with Walling and Gilmore for $10.
Laurence La Tourette Driggs cites a story of a frightened pilot who fled a fight then returned to crash his plane into an enemy one. The sacrifice, described as noble, led to mutual respect as both fighters perished in flames.
The Philadelphia Record reports an 1862 Keokuk Iowa wholesale grocers bill showing sugar at 58 per barrel rice 38 tea 101 for a 25 pound chest and coffee four times today’s price. The same bill totalled 644.14 then and 291.61 now, illustrating Civil War price shocks and relative U S wartime hardship.
Christian Church services listed with 10:00 A M Bible School led by Zack Martin, 11:00 A M sermon The Crucial Hour, 4:00 P M Junior Endeavor, 6:30 P M Y P S C E, and 7:30 P M sermon.
The monthly meeting is set for Saturday at 2 pm with all members urged to attend. Sunday will be observed as Young Friends Rally Day with a morning service led by the church's young men and an evening program by the young women. All are invited.
The New York Tribune describes engineers in German liners inside an internment as the Berlin orders demanded wrecking the engines. Engineers wept and scrawled lines like farewell on the machinery while the policy makers pursued ruthless destruction.
A dialogue features a sitter asking Dauber to alter a nose in a portrait. Dauber offers options to minimize the feature or remove it entirely, reflecting a humorous exchange on artistic choices.
The London Chronicle notes no sugar supply rule for afternoon tea in factories. Midland food commissioner seeks ruling. Lord Rhondda says workers must bring their own sugar. Midlands employers push for guidance for long afternoon shifts.
Joe Flaherty, described as the tallest prisoner, was arrested by Patrolman Tom Edmunds after allegedly accosting several women along Park Avenue. Edmunds spotted him a block away, chased him, and ordered him to surrender as the incident unfolded.
A Chariton county woman noticed her diamond was missing after discarding dishwater. Chickens pawed nearby, and when initial search failed they were slaughtered. In the thirty third chicken’s crop the diamond was found.
An English maker develops a compact air bed that folds into a small valise. It uses a rubber inner chamber inflated via two valves and can be repaired like a tire if punctured. The bed measures 23 inches wide with wider knee rests, inflates in about two minutes, and deflates after use.
A British made porcelain claimed to be harder than standard porcelain has been developed by the Central School of Science and Technology in Stoke-on-Trent. Consul Robert S Bergh reports the body is as inexpensive as earthenware and workable for potting, while the glaze costs about one tenth as much as earthenware glaze.
Amid the European front, soldiers endured a three foot waterlogged trench where an officer queried Logenwitz. A sailor reply came to mission logs, “Gone ashore, sir,” reflecting grim wartime banter despite the horrors of battle.
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