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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1891
Page
3
Fragmentary text from a broad page segment shows a mix of phrases about town, prices, and a piano, with unclear context. Readers are left with disconnected references to Oregon and a practical piano, suggesting a miscellaneous short-item notice or ad fragment.
Fragmentary note shows President and Cashier Morris weighing a concern at their bank or company. Text is garbled but implies leadership figures addressing a management issue. Further details are unreadable in the fragment.
The W R C and 8 of W present a literary entertainment at Armory hall on Friday evening January 16 1801 at 7 o'clock. Admission is 10 cents. After the exercises there will be a box supper with each box sold for 25 cents. Ladies attending are invited to bring a box.
Rev. J Hi Douglas of Des Moines Iowa conducts evangelical services with growing attendance. Sermons of great power were delivered Sunday morning and evening, filling the church to capacity. The expected closing date was delayed by the intense interest, extending the meetings for an additional evening.
The sermons have been plain and convincing and many converts have been added. The meetings have continued nightly by congregational vote and the end date remains uncertain.
A Sunday evening gathering at Friends church organized a Christian Endeavor society. Prof Hartley explained the objectives. Elmer Armtrong was named temporary chair and Libbie Morris temporary secretary. Seventy five joined. a goal of one hundred charter members set for next Sunday at five.
The document presents a Bank of Newberg balance sheet with cash on hand deposits notes and capital stock totals and a January 7 1891 notarial affirmation. It also covers Monday election results listing mayoral candidates George W Williams and J D Carter and a temperance favorable outcome with most officials aligned to temperance. It notes local real estate trades holiday trade activity and community notices including the death of BR. R. Daniel and the suicide tragedy of Willie Layman with railway danger cautions.
The San Jacinto valley will host the world’s largest orange grove this winter, rivaling Pomona’s 400 acre grove. The plan includes a 700 acre plant of top varieties. Reports on millionaire incomes and astonishing daily earnings appear in items about Jay Gould William Astor John D Rockefeller and Cornelius Vanderbilt. A winter of 1861 62 is recalled with noted heavy snows and early weather events. A Paris Exposition railway exhibit proposes water powered sliding cars Chicago to New York in four hours. Salt Lake inventor claims a cheap laminating gas process with major gas price impacts anticipated.
An article about a Providence area church where two young men disrupted an evening prayer meeting. The pastor confronted them and quoth that, while miracles are not performed, devils are cast out, ending the scene with a striking phrase.
The text urges total dedication to divine will for true peace and safety, warning against postponing Christian effort. It contrasts visible church fervor with private devotion, arguing salvation is not compulsory and that coercion does not enter God’s kingdom. It cautions against delaying faith and urges decisive commitment.
A ladies column closes the year with a reflective poem about bidding sorrow farewell and greeting dawn with hope for the New Year. It includes lines urging self reliance, thrift, patience, conscience, and doing good quietly, alongside reminders to value personal integrity and individual opinions.
A fragment describes Nerides amassing seventy thousand dollars and redirecting the funds into land, building materials, and a venture at Mount Holyoke in 1887. Maury Lyon conceived and managed the project, leading to growth with lawned girls arriving at the seminary during its Crest year.
Public notice states medicines named to be left with specified agents in Dundee area. Details include references to The Japanese OW Dr Swans Liver and Kidney Cure and National Specie for Malaria, with agents Mr Miry Hobsou and Mr at Hardwick. Applications may be left at Dundee post office for D W Martin K W Mant, Oregon agent.
This property offers 160 acres divided into sixteen 19 acre tracts about five miles from Newberg on the way to Portland near Smookville. Sixty acres cleared, high and level with good spring and creek water. Panoramic Willamette Valley views and Cascade Range peaks. Tracts from 9 per acre with easy terms 4 down and balance over 1 to 4 years at 7 percent. Jessen Hopson.
Public notice calls for bids on 2400 cords of wood. Contact Wright's real estate office or the Graphic office in Newberg Oregon for terms.
Excitement runs high at C. F. Moore and Co's drug store as System Builder gains praise for aiding stomach upset constipation and blood purity. Patrons report strong merit with widespread approval.
The piece argues for independent thought in art tempered by fidelity to truth. It warns that independence without merit harms craft, and urges artists to seek work aligned with personal feeling, close to nature, and nourished by daily gratitude to the Giver of all good.
A report shows 1557 cough syrups made in the United States, but only the California Positive and Negative Electric Cough Cure is entirely free from opiates. The remedy, praised as the best on earth for coughs and colds, is marketed by C. F. Moore & Co.
A long speech extols a woman who argued for women’s education over fifty years ago. She championed schooling against odds, endured poverty, and traveled through Massachusetts, seeking support and framing her mission as a life craft rather than a passing notion.
An 19th century advertisement touts the California Positive and Negative Electric Liniment as a cure for catarrh leprosy and many ailments including neuralgia rheumatism headaches sprains burns and general pain. It urges readers to try it and tell others about its effectiveness.
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