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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1899
Page
4
A compilation of long past items notes vast book production in the United States with 4 886 titles last year and totals reaching 100 000 000 volumes over ten years. It mentions wood pulp issues, humorous quips, and varied odds and ends from period sources.
The Manufacturers and Producers Association of San Francisco launches a state wide drive to exclude convict labor products from stores and homes. Circulars and a postal return card urge merchants and households to pledge not to stock stoves built by convict labor, targeting crover from Oregon and related trades across California.
Red Lodge Montana voters approved a 25000 bond for water works and a 10000 bond for a brick high school building to be redeemable in ten years and paid in twenty at six percent. The region reports a strong hop crop with Yakima forecast at 18000 bales and contracts totaling about 4000 this season. Arthur Poole reports several growers contracted for hundreds of bales and negotiations ongoing for more.
Articles of incorporation are filed for the Empire Mining Company with capital stock of 1 600 000 divided into 1 500 000 shares of 1 par. It plans placer gold mines and lodes of gold ore in Baker and Grant counties with offices in Baker City and a branch in Montreal Canada.
Kendrick State Bank of Kendrick Idaho filed articles of incorporation with capital stock of 25000 dollars. Directors listed include M O C Normoyle D McCrea Math Jacobs A W Gordon and F N Gilbert.
The notice lists multiple farm and market prices across wheat, flour, oats, barley, hay, butter, cheese, poultry, potatoes, vegetables, onions, hops, wool, millet, meat, and dried goods. It covers Walla Walla and Seattle markets with varied per bushel and per ton figures, including live animals, dairy products, and fruit prices.
The article explains Alaska's climate differs by region from the interior to the coast. Southern Alaska enjoys mild coastal temperatures with more rain and snow but fewer drastic swings, while the interior faces Arctic winters yet warm summers. Juneau and Sitka see milder winter lows than Skaguay, challenging assumptions about Alaska’s weather. A Seattle Post-Intelligencer note contrasts winter temperatures with Florida, suggesting Alaska may lure winter travelers.
The article reviews Baxter v Camp denying a son’s right to recover from a contract made by his mother’s husband. It notes Wilson v Milliken abating state-action suits after federal removal and cites Tay lor v State for arrest authority. It also discusses note payment defenses and a Kentucky case on a venomous horned snake found in Cadiz.
The passage notes France built eleven very powerful lighthouses over ten years, averaging about 820,000 candles. It contrasts Koglamdl with eighty six distelasa Hyebe houses averaging 20,480 cam ille power. It ends with a remark that after fifty a woman is asked to deny both weight and age.
A steam motor car intended for railroad use recently completed a trial run at sixty miles per hour. It is suggested to surpass prior records, and is noted for potential health uses similar to fostetter's Stomach Buyers in aiding digestion and other ailments.
A historical note claims a well bred Arabian horse canter in desert without drinking for 24 hours in summer and 48 hours in winter. The home remedy mention lists Piso's Cure for Consumption as the sole cough medicine used in Mittlinburg Pennsylvania in 1806. It also references bright red spectacles and calomel as a new German seasickness remedy.
Advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a pure vegetable remedy. Claims avoid mercurial or mineral poisons and notes prices of 10c and 2c for the product.
St. Petersburg hosts the largest bronze statue of Peter the Great weighing 1000 tons. Allen's Foot-Ease offers quick relief for painful feet and bunions with 10000 testimonials and a 25 cent mail option. A Dahomey temple at Werda feeds 1000 snakes by priests.
A Canton woman describes severe abdominal pain dizziness and sleeplessness and credits Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound after following advice from Mrs Pinkham The notice extols the remedy and mentions the Pinkham correspondence as advising and aiding hundreds of thousands of women annually.
Letters from Susan Wymar of Chicago and Margaretha Dauben of Racine City praise Pe-ru-na as a relief for overwork and sleeplessness in women. They claim improved health and happiness from using the remedy and urge sending for Dr. Hartman’s free book Health and Beauty.
A collage of statistics and observations covers Alpine glaciers over five miles long, Wales and Gaelic language speakers, Irish Irish speakers, water chemistry, flour dust explosions in America, breach of promise values, and an unusually mild Tyrolean autumn with November flowers at high elevations and blooming roses.
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