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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1891
Page
2
F. W. Carman M D offers medical services at his office and residence in KeWburg South of the Fuel Office. The fragment references routes and passenger and freight mates with agents in Newberg and Kokules, indicating a telegraph or transit notice.
Local notices report activity in Newberg and nearby Yamhill County, including a Board of Trade with 27 members led by J. M. Wright as president and John Thompson as secretary. Articles discuss consolidation debates, church influence, and a curious medical washing treatment for dyspepsia and stomach inflammation cited from the Scientific American.
A description of Loxpow's clock claims the largest in the world with four dials of twenty two feet six inches diameter and minute marks every inch. The fifteen foot pendulum weighs seven hundred pounds and drives a one and a half ton weight, wound weekly. The article notes temperature compensation and a four and a half second error in a fourteen day period. It also records a brewer meeting poster attacking clergy and Sunday schools and critiques brewing interests as a foreign influence on American governance.
The talk recounts 19th century Oregon horticulture starts led by Hondoraon Lewelling and William Meek. It details soil in wagon beds for grafted trees, arrival at Milwaukie on the Willamette, first apple prices in Portland, and shipments to San Francisco and beyond, noting high early fruit values and rising demand from Californians.
A Nebraska visitor quotes a grim county-wide report of 247 families needing clothing, 202 lacking food for a month, 628 with no grain, 492 with only cow chip fuel, over half unable to buy essentials. Crop failures and winter hardship stretch resources, with Colorado neighbors in worse shape.
The article explains how a northward climate and glacial soil deposits enable agriculture in high latitudes. It notes that hardy crops like turnips carrots cabbage and potatoes can grow from mid May to early October with careful planning and favorable markets from mining camps.
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