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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1890
Page
1
Ammon i Column. Professional Carda advertising rates listed with twenty dollars ten dollars and one dollar. Reading notices to be inserted at the rate of ten cents per line. Advertising bills collected monthly.
Presbyterian Church holds services on the second and fourth Lord's Day with Sabbath school. Willison is the pastor. Friends Church offers Sunday services at 11 and 7 with Sabbath school at 10, monthly and quarterly meetings scheduled. Evangelical Church conducts services on the first and third Sundays at 10 a.m. and second and fourth Sundays at 7 p.m with Sabbath school each Sunday at 9 a.m.
G M C A devotional services every Sunday evening with young men urged to attend. Sessions held Saturday evening in the rooms over Moore's Drug Store. W C T U conducts a monthly business meeting on the second Saturday, G A R meets the first and third Thursday evenings, and W C T U holds a third Saturday afternoon meeting each month.
City records name Treasurer Marnall, Street Commissioner, and Councilmen Moees Votan Hopkins Stratton Maris B C Milew Rees Calvin Stanley J D Carter Geo Grayson. Listing reflects local governance roles and names in official roster.
The Salt Lake School Board election results show seven Liberals to three Republicans. Other items note a California ex assemblyman jailed for forging a supervisor’s name, Seattle to vote on a new charter, and various regional notes including theater plans collapse and local investigations.
A broad digest of world and domestic items. Topics include Albany and Buffalo population figures, railroads and taxes, street railways in Ottawa and Spokane, a new election law, currency moves in Roumania, and railway land grants. Also notes on disasters, productivity, and international affairs with numerous named places and entities.
Portland wholesale market shows tight wheat trading with firm prices while vegetables and fruits display steady to firm trends. Oregon and California shipments appear, with quotes on maize, barley, hay, grapes, apples, pears, peaches, and berries, reflecting mixed supply and ongoing exports.
The report shows steady to firm conditions across markets. Sugar prices are listed with crushed and powdered varieties. beans, dried fruit, canned goods, rice, and wool quotes appear, including specific prices and items like table fruits, peaches, strawberries, cherries, raspberries, and nails.
The market reports firm quotes on various meats with formattings such as Hogs at six cents dressed, Veal per pound and Spring Lambs at two dollars each, while faster hams and breakfast bacon appear in pricing notes.
A Chicago Herald item tells of a young woman who fears sleeping alone after a supper mishap caused by rats and sweet cakes, vowing to eat at the table with many men. A hotel guest complains of bare walls, craving East Coast style decor, then seeks rooms near the Red Front Blue Goose.
A past-Tucson tale recalls Judge Charlie Meyers who used a chain gang to reform the town. He presided with a druggist’s honesty, drafted a court library, and demurred at constitutional concerns while distributing justice and profit to locals and Indians alike. A lawyer faced a partisan jury and was sent to the chain gang. The narrative frames Meyers as a righteous judge amid reform, contrasted with era lawyers.
The expedition climbs Mount Saint Elias and notes many snowbound peaks visible and nearby Fairweather and Crillon clearly seen above clouds. A small American flag donated by a Sitka woman was placed in a tin can at a 10 000 foot high peak, marking the flagging moment.
By the Hamilton turnpike in Hamilton County a large sycamore, planted in 1832 by Alice and Phasbe Cary then ages 6 and 12, grew from a discarded sapling they found and tended on their way home from College Hill. Their care, grown over years, gave shade to visits by the Cary sisters.
The article details a cycle where a carpenter and a Samoan home buyer engage in extortion through staged construction. After receiving kava influenced gifts, the carpenter begins work, demands more presents, and suspends progress if not met, leaving the house unfinished and the owner humiliated. The pattern, repeated with community aid or enduring stigma, tarnishes the owner’s name.
The scene shows Mrs. Fish politely declining a social visitor at a modest East Washington frame house. A woman, scrubbing the front steps, replies that the mistress is not in, as Mrs. Fish steps from her carriage and hands over her card.
The article recounts Thomas Alva Edison’s wary venture into Wall Street to cash a $40,000 Western Union patent sale. He feared sharks and kept the large sum in two folded pockets as he navigated the Bank of America cashier’s scrutiny and the street’s temptations. Edison’s nerve and humor shine as Gen. Lefferts confirms the funds and the cashier finally validates the amount.
Olive Thorne Miller in Home Maker notes small monkeys and marmosets kept as pets. A tiny monkey attached to a lady’s dress wore a light gold chain and rode a parasol. Marmosets are easy to obtain but cling to humans and are troublesome in winter. They eat fruits and varied foods and may drink coffee and lemonade.
A quiet Sunday scene unfolds as a woman reads from Proverbs causing a man to slip into a brief oblivion. She jokes about how Josh Billings would have crafted that moment if he had more words.
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