Baird's Shoes Offer Best Quality and Savings
Bargain buyers are urged to shop at Baird's for quality shoes at lower prices. The ad promises the very best wear and genuine savings for customers.
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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1911
Page
3
Bargain buyers are urged to shop at Baird's for quality shoes at lower prices. The ad promises the very best wear and genuine savings for customers.
Dr Bowers and wife, after ten months in California, resume practice with new offices. They report extensive hospital experience and treat a range of cases at sanitariums. They declined covert work and note widespread patient demand and requests from Portland to Southern Oregon, with Newberg favored for ties from six years of residence. Office hours 9 to 12 and 1 to 5. home phone listed.
A vivid review praises Isabelle Carpenter Kendall's Across the Continent as the first title from the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway. The luxuriously designed volume depicts the West between the Mississippi and the Pacific with elaborate color illustrations and about seventy pages of heavy calendered paper, aiming as a superb work of art and documentation of the awakening frontier.
The narrative highlights 1 400 miles of new railway through western territory with distinctive letterpress and color photos. It describes principal towns along the line, modern railroad building advances, and the Milwaukee road as a notable achievement. The book is published by Sound Railway, under Geo. W. Hibbard and R. M. Calkins in Seattle.
An old man seeks life insurance from a general agent. The agent refuses, saying they do not write policies for people over eighty. The judge laments that many die before eighty, questioning the policy rule.
A buyer pressures a wary customer over pest control products in a dialogue set in a Chicago Tribune style. The woman dismisses the pest claim noting no rodents have been present for years, while the seller predicts future rats and mice and cites neighboring sales.
A Wide World Magazine writer tours Persian turquoise mining from the magenta hills to Meshed markets. It details gangs of men and boys sorting ore, traditional blasting, and the gamble of bag purchases. The piece ends with notes on Henry VIII’s bed and Shakespeare’s bed of Ware as famed relics.
The article notes royal beds in England from the Tudor period were richly furnished yet Henry VIII’s bed sat on straw beneath. It mentions a curious order about safety precautions to guard the royal person during bed preparation and possible mischief.
The text lists ancient remedies for coughs and colds attributed to Pliny. It cites wolf’s liver in hot wine, honey with bear gall, powders from rabbit skins and bullocks’ horns, and wrapping a sore finger in fresh dog skin. It also touts tree frogs as cure all and three kisses on a mule’s mouth as a cold remedy.
An Oxford don, born to a carpenter, chats with dignitaries when his father passes by in working clothes. The father’s modest appearance prompts the son to call out in Hampshire dialect, expressing shared pride and defiant affection.
A narrator quotes a man describing a drunken brawl ending in a fatal stabbing. His wife comments that police should close such places, noting the victim was stabbed in the chest. The exchange resembles a casual, grim reaction to violent news.
Executor of Moses Hollingsworth estate files final account in Yamhill County Oregon Court. Hearing set for July 17, 1911 at 11:00 AM in McMinnville County Courtroom to show cause why account should not be settled and approved.
The undersigned William Krwcatp is named executor of Penelope J Skinner's last will in Yamhill County Oregon. Creditors must present claims with vouchers to the estate within seven months from the date of notice. Dated June 1911. Clarence fu Attorney Estate.
Sale notice from Newberg listing late cabbage cow kale pepper plants celery sal vias geraniums and cauliflower available at East Side Green Houses owned by John Gower in Newberg.
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