22 Jan 1892
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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1892
Page
1
Fragmentary text mentions fruits such as orange pears and cher trees, grafts and debility with scattered words. No coherent event, date, or identifiable names emerge to form a definite news item or outcome.
The notice lists schedules for several churches including Presbyterian Friends Evangelical Baptist and others. It notes service times Sabbath school and meetings, with monthly and quarterly gatherings and special sessions throughout the year, plus devotional or business meetings at designated dates. Local pastors and meeting specifics are outlined.
Trains to Portland from East and South along Southern Pacific route list arrival and departure times. The schedule covers Salem Albany Roseburg Medford Ashland Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles El Paso New Orleans and Europe ticketing at First Street. Through sleeping cars and dining cars noted with connections to Willamette Valley lines and ferries to Sellwood Milwaukie.
A new compound of iron sulfur and silicon with minor foreign matter yields a durable stone substitute. It machines like blue stone, accepts pigment for color, and shows tensile strength from 70 to 1200 psi while bearing 9000 to 12000 psi in compression. Specific gravity about 2.6 and melting around 800 degrees. Weather resistant and moldable for pipes culverts and bridge foundations, offering smooth surfaces to reduce friction.
The Oregon Board of Equalization reports state total taxable property rising by about 9 million dollars with real and personal property valued at 210 million. A large eastward colonization effort is planned for Linn County. Deputy Sheriff Pete Taylor of Ormsby County Nevada faces a shortfall in his accounts and counterfeiters operate in Salt Lake City. Firearm and stage robbery incidents occur near Riverside Arizona with a Wells Fargo box taken but mail left intact.
Stephen B. Elkine, newly named Secretary of War, owns a palatial ninety room home in Randolph County West Virginia described as one of the finest country residences in the South. He winters in New York where his library is noted and he values rare books.
The Dundee public schools plan to add Highland fling and other dances to the curriculum with an optional extra fee. Vassar is noted for a pin money fund to aid penniless students, funded by donations and lectures. National university extension talks in Philadelphia cover science funding and more engaging history lectures.
A summary of Eastern items notes Andrew Carnegie giving 30000 for a public library in Fairfield, Iowa, amid a broad mix of statistics and political notes. Reports include bounty on sugar, railway and banking actions, census-like figures, and various legislative proposals.
The Court of Claims rules government clerks are not entitled to holidays when absent from duty more than sixty days. A clerk’s substitute was paid from the absent worker’s salary, and the decision focused on recovering that portion.
Agricultural note explains that keeping sweet potatoes through winter is difficult due to skin abrasion cutting and frost. Select only mature, top quality tubers and store in cool dry areas. Methods differ for small batches or bulk, using sand filled barrels or stacked heaps with ventilation and moisture control.
The piece argues winter farming duties kept farms valuable by forest clearing and preparation. It claims neglecting winter labor wastes potential income and that feeding stock or other winter earnings would make farming more profitable. It emphasizes that current practice leaves farmers unprofitable.
Farmers cling to old rots and avoid change due to unfamiliar effort and lack of ready cash. Thinking is resisted as capital requirements rise beyond reach, and many never escape poverty while death removes the last obstacles to modernization.
The article notes a shift from valuing costly fences to viewing needless stone fences as encumbrances. It says once fences added value, but now maintenance or removal costs matter, especially near urban areas, with rare salability for building material.
The text discusses manure left in heaps during winter and argues that spreading it on the surface allows rain and wind to mix it with the soil, increasing its benefit. It warns that keeping manure in heaps through winter minimizes its usefulness until plowing.
The piece argues that saving labor in spring hinges on hand weeding strawberry beds starting as plants are set out. Each weed removed now reduces future labor, and beds can last longer if rows stay clear of weeds. Never allow a single weed to grow.
A dense market listing from Portland shows prices across multiple categories. Fruit and produce include lemons at 3.50 to 6.50 per box, oranges 4.50 to 5.50, apples 0.70 to 1.25 per box, and bananas 0.60 to 4.00 per bunch. Nuts, dairy, grains, and meats are itemized with varied regional sources and units, reflecting wide regional pricing.
A dense catalog of food商品 prices across multiple categories including coffee cacao rice beans sugar and dried fruits with varied per pound per cwt per case rates. Mentions Savr Liverpool Correa Costa Rica Rio Salvador Mocha Java Arbuckle’s and Essences with assorted packaging weights and quantities.
A fragmented OCR listing cites numerous items with prices per unit or weight. Entries include steel wire rope and per-pound rates, charcoal and roofing boxes, coke plates, bar materials, rosin, tar, pitch, turpentine, and sacks with varied prices across manufacturers and regions.
The notice details prices for hides wool and pelts in the Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon. Prices vary by grade weight age and condition with ranges from 1.17 to 1.25 dollars per pound for wool and hides and different rates for shearings and tallow.
A fragment lists meat prices and labels from a local market. Items include bacon ham and breakfast bacon sold by weight with varied per pound figures and misread shop terms. The garbled text shows tendered prices in cents and regional product mentions.
The fragment lists burlap bag sizes and prices such as 4-02 and 12-02 with various weights and dimensions. Mentions Te and Tye brands, Calcutta location, and spot wheat bag references. Provides unclear references to second hand bags and multiple net cash terms.
Julian Ralph notes in Harper’s Weekly that open barouches and cabs light up streets like a festival as buses abound yet drivers rely on whips voices and a bellows horn. He compares Paris unfavorably to London and New York in public transport speed and abundance.
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