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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1893
Page
4
Royal Baking Powder is proclaimed as absolutely pure and 27 percent stronger than competing brands based on chemical tests. The ad urges consumers to avoid second-class powders sold cheaper but weaker, advising buyers to demand lower prices if priced against Royal.
In a prose fragment attributed to K. T. O Loughlin, the narrator laments a silent wasteland from Tycho to Gassendi where mountains glare, and asks what mortal hand could end the great void. The piece ponders art, time, and a cosmic separation from living music. Then a humorous local note describes two city girls at a Montpelier farm trying to water horses by lifting a buggy and patiently waiting for drink, until assistance arrives and they depart, leaving the farmer to ponder modern methods.
John Quibell of Holt Ontario reports a neighbor named John Gilbert was gravely ill with liver and kidney failure. He credits August Flower with a dramatic recovery that astonished Gilbert’s family and friends.
A San Francisco Examiner report notes a fourth story sash pane from the postal inspector’s building shattered in a rare pattern during a severe quake. Four fractures crossed the pane from corners forming a square center, with six half squares around it, drawn with mathematical regularity.
A man in Atchison is hailed as a hero for keeping his family together after his wife died. He works by day, manages housework at night, and runs the sewing and ironing himself to care for eight children while keeping them neatly dressed and attending school.
Mr Hiramson of New York endows a hospital memory of his late wife Mary Hitchcock in Hanover New York. The facility near Dartmouth College will provide clinical study to medical students and admit patients who are not infectious, with staff drawn from town and college. Occupancy expected this autumn, with strong financial endowment reducing need for external fundraising.
The administratrix of the late Gren Clinton J B Fisk has paid subscriptions to colleges and churches including a large, unsigned grant at Drew Seminary. Fisk University decides to erect a memorial chapel funded by the General’s $25,000 bequest, paid by the administratrix.
New York Letter notes a brutal season as 192 companies have returned to New York only to find no paying audiences. Actors and managers admit the season has been disastrous and financially ruinous for troupes unable to secure work.
A detailed tour of a roller process flour mill explains wheat preparation and cleaning, first and subsequent roller pairs, scalping and bolting reels, and the separator system. It notes silk cloth gears, moisture effects, and how middlings are refined into fine flour through aspirators and purifiers before final sizing.
A young American woman recounts a season in London marked by typhoid leave and hair loss. She shaved her head and wore a convincing wig causing panic on gala days. She recalls a cab ride, a skittish horse, and relief after discovering the wig remained secure.
The late H L Gude, longtime superintendent of the city railroad, fell ill with a severe cold that quickly turned to consumption. Despite medical assurances, he deteriorated and returned from Auburn before dying the next day. The report also notes a misprint detection in a San Francisco Argonaut article and records Chickasaw Nation politics with Jonas Wolfe elected governor, a non English speaker aligned with the KreW Nothing faction.
The World's Columbian Exposition souvenir half dollars will be sold at one dollar each. The board of directors decided to sell the coins directly to the public rather than through agents or intermediaries.
Mrs. Carlyle describes Sir Charles Gavan Duffy as having a coarse horse like face yet capable of beauty. Cromley painted a poetic dreamy portrait that Shelley's likeness Doe, shown to Daniel O Connell who remarked he wished Duffy were as like it.
A man describes using a sharp stick driven into soil to coax earthworms to the surface in five minutes. He twists the stick while tapping to drive it deeper, then collects the worms in a can. Mixed in text are clipped items from newspapers and quotes about engagements and typhoid germs.
A collage of patent medicine advertisements tout Brandreth and Braxparra Prius cures for skin ulcers and boils, Brown's Bronchial Troches for coughs, Hall's Catarrh Cure with nationwide testimonials, Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh, and mail order instructions. Includes endorsements, prices, and distributor notes from Toledo druggists and others.
An old advertisement extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a cure for biliousness and related symptoms. It claims to ease headaches yellow skin and eyes nausea and digestive distress while avoiding harsh purgatives. The tonic is praised for improving appetite sleep and vitality and is depicted as a universal remedy.
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