Reading Notices Inverted At Ten Cents A Line
An ad notice states that one column colon etional reading notices will be inverted at ten cents per line with advertising bills collected monthly.
16 Jan 1891
Page 1
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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1891
Page
1
An ad notice states that one column colon etional reading notices will be inverted at ten cents per line with advertising bills collected monthly.
Presbyterian Church holds services on the second and fourth Sundays with Sabbath school at 10 04 am Mary W. Whiteon, Pastor. Friends Church meets Sundays 1130 am and 7 pm with Sabbath school Sundays 11 00 am. Monthly meetings 10 am on the first Saturday. Evangelical Church offers worship on the second and third Sundays at 10 am with Sunday school every Sunday at 11 am.
The notice lists devotional services every Sunday evening and asks young men to attend. It notes sessions on Saturday evenings in rooms above Moore's Drug Store and a business meeting on the second Saturday of each month. Also mentions G. A. B. sessions on the first and third Thursday evenings each month.
The report covers California pardons and officials, a Merced County election outcome for fusionists, Visalia land incorporation for vineyards, and Apple shipments from Walla Walla. It notes Seattle cable road passes stopped, a rise in female timber claims in Washington, opium seizure in Tacoma, and a Seattle license scheme. It also mentions a California census, Tacoma bullion, San Jose fruit buyers’ standardization effort, San Francisco shipping bills, Pacific Northwest shipwrecks, and regional crime prison demographics.
A wide array of brief items covers finance, crime, exploration, and social issues. Topics include a proposed loan for a colored colony, a Chicago saloon robbery, a preacher charged with heresy, a deadly coal oil explosion, a Texas political tally, timber and coal land deals in West Virginia, and petroleum experiments in Lowell. Reports on Cuban exile rumors, tin deposits near San Antonio, Quebec borrowing plans, a submarine project in Detroit, and a Stonewall Jackson grave site ritual follow. Continuous notes on state insurance, Indian reservations, and ethnic stories fill the page, with international lawsuits and editor figures rounding out the column.
The latest dispatch notes a severe typhus outbreak in Florence with many residents afflicted. Other items include a Turkish Greek dispute resolved by the Sultan, a near total Java coffee failure, and various international moves from Russia to Brazil. The report also mentions postal strikes in London and deaths of notable figures.
The report surveys improved foreign markets with strong cargoes and steady Liverpool futures, and buoyant local sentiment though no price advance. It lists wide commodity quotes for grains, produce, meats, dairy, and staples with specific prices for Valley wheat, Walla Walla, sugars, fruits, vegetables, and canned goods.
The column lists varied market prices for meats and groceries with items like mutton veal and ham while a short vignette from Chicago Tribune notes a bright Calumet avenue boy and a witty exchange about kissing in French.
A New York Sun item relays a humorous exchange on Sunday school duty with a teacher asking about the meaning of cleanliness and a boy named John replying that it means a Mexican man wears a clean shirt every day in a joking misheard exchange.
A fragment from a historic text recounts a small girl who loses all but a stone and speaks of hunger and loss. Her cryptic plea reveals distress and a shift in her family’s fortune as she mentions cloth, meat, bone, and a perilous future in New York.
A New York Tribune report describes Kerosene Jake, billed as the champion kerosene drinker of America, perched in tomato tights on a platform in a Bowery venue. Gatekeepers say he drinks four pints daily, a risky act halted when heat rose to 100 degrees, moving Jake to the "dead act" for winter.
A Boston man and his twin, living in the west, switch places after shaving mishap. The western twin remonstrates with a barber who mistakes him for the east twin and remarks on a growing beard, joking that a beard that fast suggests the mattress business.
In an Omaha World segment two wood sawyers contrast life in the field and duck hunting. The first laments a hard world with little pleasure while the second insists hunting is a paid trade, noting Maryland as a bustling example.
A Duluth paper claims the local magnetic iron ore exerts strong power, causing miners to wear moccasins to avoid magnetic nails. It reports houses near the mines require wooden pins, a wild duck swallowed hair pins and was halted, and people with high iron levels may fall into a trance.
The dialogue asks who is the gentleman signing M sieur Danniele de Wyllonne and identifies Dan Wilson of Ohio as the man who has been in Paris three months and just returned home. It also notes another signature Daniel Wilson as the son in law of the president of the republic of France.
A Chicago News quote questions discretion after noting Schwab is set to produce hash in the penitentiary. The speaker ponders whether allowing anarchists access to dangerous compounds is a mistake while discussing security and reform.
A quirky note from Texas Siftings references a cold ward poet whose face is his fortune as an insurance agent. The passage mentions Foglish actors taking cash now, with the line that it will all come back some future day alongside John L. Sullivan at Bostow Courlan.
A traveler at Cook's Luxor hotel writes of the dry climate and rapid evaporation on the Nile, noting warm water, cold nights, and swimming in the river. He describes persistent Egyptian flies, their boldness, and local attitudes toward driving them away. The piece also covers backshish demands, fleas, and a humorous aside referencing Chicago.
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