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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1897
Page
4
The ad urges purchasing Schiling's Best tea to improve odds in a word missing contest with a $1000 grand prize and extra prizes for the most tickets. Rules appear in the large ad published near the start and middle of each month at your grocer.
Mrs Louise Jewell Cabel of East Lowell Maine is described as the world’s only woman justice of the peace. Born 58 years ago last December she began school at 29, taught, learned French and German during illness, wrote for magazines, and earned commissions to solemnize marriages administer oaths and take acknowledgments. She served as pension justice traveling for affidavits and now holds her third commission. Her husband, an organ and sewing machine vendor, became paralyzed a year ago.
An Atchison Kansas mother files courts monthly against her two sons to collect $10 each under an agreement that she will refrain from annoying them with her presence or talk. The sons have defaulted in payment since last fall. Emile Arton admits receiving 400000 to lobby for the Panama Canal and has handed his expenditure books to M le Poittevin. Wolfe Valley Texas residents form a rabbit club offering one cent per cotton tail scalp and two cents per jackrabbit to remove a nuisance. The will of C P Woodcock, Seattle, probate shows 5 cents each to his son and daughter after debts. Crows fly about 26 miles per hour.
A brief line extols Electricity as a powerful enhancer of vital nerve power, claiming life depends on it and weak nerves lack it, noting rapid restoration as its key benefit.
Agricultural notes stress home grown crimson clover to improve soil and reduce fertilizer costs with early June sowing and December growth. It urges mineral boosts only potash and phosphoric acid and highlights clover’s soil-building potential. Also covered is horse stable ventilation to prevent ammonia buildup and related health issues in summer heat.
An 19th century farming note explains that milk soured by exposure to air can be kept sweet by heating to near boiling and sealing in sterilized bottles with a cork or cotton stopper. It discusses orchard cultivation, steep banks, sowing grass, and blackberry care, stressing soil fertility, surface cultivation, and moisture management.
The article offers guidance on shallow cultivation and soil management for young trees and berries, root pruning of walnut and shell bark trees, and watering during dry periods. It discusses rye as a weed in winter wheat, mixing grains, and timing of rye head removal. It cautions keeping young ducks from water and describes gasoline as an insect remedy, plus a note on cornstalk pith as animal feed.
Readable fragments discuss grafting currants and irrigation for strawberries, with advice on mulch, manure and soda in water. Fire blight control calls for cutting to sound wood and sealing wounds. Grape varieties named include Concord Worden Hubert Brighton Green Mountain Moore's Early Vergennes. Historic quotes praise Victoria era reforms and scientific progress.
Weekly market letter notes uneasiness over July wheat due to elevator moves and low local contract stocks. It cites weather shifts locust reports and a strong cash trade, with wide price ranges across grains hay dairy and produce from Portland Salem Cascadia and other lines.
A crusty Kentucky bachelor with wealth explains his plan to sell all assets for cash and burn paper money on a Moor to die with his fortune. He notes the eye contains four to six grains of aqueous humor.
A Santa Rosa man afflicted with pneumonia and presumed consumption recovers after three boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills. The story, vouched by Sheriff Allen and others, appears in the Santa Rosa Republican. Also reports on Paris electric trolley system by Bochet, a Chicago hospital case of severe injuries, and various small science and tech notes.
Workmen digging for new buildings at Casino Beach Astoria found gold and silver coins deep underground dated to 1561 and Napoleon II. The find challenged the Kidd treasure myth as an unlikely origin for the hoard.
Patients describe relief from kidney trouble back pain and weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. Testimonials from Mrs Macore Paris in Philadelphia and Mrs E F Monron in Cincinnati claim improved health, weight gain, and regulated menstruation.
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