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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1899
Page
4
An old advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a valuable assistant for all social classes in achieving and maintaining perfect health. It contrasts wealth with health and asserts durability surpasses show in well being.
The article notes annual fruit value in Britain at about £10 million and lists weights for European royal ladies. It mentions a Peruvian quicksilver mine and a planned horseback field sport with bloodhounds as a substitute for fox hunting. Marlborough House access is limited by a guarded right wing door and armed guards.
A grocer named Yawper, who aspired to be a great actor, recalls a dramatic first night where a patriotic speech failed as a heckler cried out and he forgot his lines leading to a hasty exit. In contrast the piece notes the high value of U.S. farm animals at 1 007 010 407 dollars, up 6 76 percent in the year.
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Base as a universal foot remedy for painful swollen feet and bunions. It claims instant relief from stinging nerves and ingrown nails with thousands of testimonials and mentions of trial packages and mail orders from Olmsted in Le Roy New York.
Vancouver talks on a large beef deal may form a coast wide combine to control meat prices affecting Victoria and Vancouver. Burns of Nelson leads plans to consolidate markets while Pacific coast tin plate shortages threaten canneries. Wool sales to Eastern houses include Hein & Chattin and J L Gray with prices down vs last summer. An Idaho company, Idaho Grain and Seed Cleaning Company, organized at Moscow, will sell grain cleaning mills across Idaho Montana and Wyoming manufactured in Walla Walla with local Moscow production.
A C Luff and Richard Tunswell establish a brick making plant in Trail British Columbia. The factory runs at full order turning out 20 000 bricks daily with demand so strong that adding machinery to reach 40 000 bricks per day is under consideration.
The Butte gas company will install a modern plant to double capacity and raise candle-power. Montana Smoke Condensing Co of Missoula, with Charles Eaton H W McLaughlin and William F Hughes, is formed to manufacture and lease gas control devices with 10000 capital stock.
In a recent interview Goldendale wool buyer William Ma Guire said the outlook improves after several Frisco warehouse sales. One sale likely 40,000 pounds at Scents, others similar in size at 10 and 11 cents. Purchases were by Eastern manufacturers' agents for mill use. Another report notes wool at Seattle bringing as high as 14 cents.
Nelson British Columbia voters will decide on issuing bonds totaling 80000 dollars to fund a public building waterworks light plant and sewer system improvements. Bonds dated July 20 run for twenty years.
The Frye Brolin Company of Seattle wins the contract to supply the cold storage steamer for the Alaska Meat Company. The Daweon bound vessel via St Michael will carry 200 tons including 10 000 turkeys 10 000 chickens 60 tons of beef 40 tons of mutton 19 tons of butter eggs and related supplies.
Kyle Wheeler and Co. hold 17 carloads at Albany Southern Pacific yards and will add 16 carloads from Junction City for a total near 1 500 head. The shipment to Rosenbaum and Co. in Omaha is worth about 40 000 dollars.
Market listings show Wheat at 69c for Walla Walla and 600 bushel values for valley, along with flour and meal prices. Oil, oats, barley, hay, butter, cheese, poultry, potatoes, vegetables, and fruit all listed with varied regional and grade prices across Seattle and Pacific Northwest markets.
Havana dispatch reports Man uel Uribas says Porto Principe and Western Santiago provinces are in banditry's grip. Cattle thefts, farmouts halted, and sugar estates shut. Soldiers, mostly Negroes, do little to stop the raids while Spaniards fear retaliation. Americans urge small garrisons or annexation to restore order.
Washington June 10 President J G Schurman head of the Philippine commission will resign on his return to the United States due to friction with General Otis. Admiral Dewey also leaves Manila amid similar tensions with Otis over campaign conduct. Otis denounces Schurman policy and asserts support for his own approach. Worcester and Denby side with Otis while Schurman persists in a policy they oppose.
Reports from San Ning and Hong Kong describe severe plague spreading through Canton Fatshan and Lan Ning with authorities closed shops and fleeing residents. Other items note New Zealand cave discoveries near Wellington, a Greenfield fireworks plant explosion, Oregon volunteers returning bodies, Otensheim fire disaster in Austria, and a Boston jewlery board meeting with a woman presiding.
Production of pig iron in Russia rose from 600000 tons in 1887 to 2194000 in 1898 while Belgium reported 108 strikes affecting 14266 workers with limited success. New York cut cigars and paper cigarettes by millions. a beet sugar harvesting machine promises fewer jobs in cities. A lightweight liquid air device is in development. river-water death rates vary across British towns. A newspaper folding addressing machine tests in New York.
Mrs Mange Bancock of Grand Rapids Michigan says Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound ended her ovarian pain fatigue and insomnia She reports restored color and vitality and notes her husband and friends observe a marked change. Pinkham offers advice by mail from Lynn Massachusetts.
The Montpelier Vermont house once home to Dr Julius Dewey and birthplace of his children changed hands for 150 then 400 with removal costs settled by the final buyer. Tourists and relic collectors since Manila's war fame have targeted the site, even stealing a silver faucet amid droves of souvenir seekers. A Gateshead factory paid workers to attend church, offering overtime questions as a labor joke. Also noted is a Sparta Tennessee discovery of a fine lithographic stone with a smooth polish and no grit.
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