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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1896
Page
2
A fragment from Newberg Oregon dated June 26 1896 surveys national and state politics. Notes include Chicago conventions McKinley Teller Hanna Williams and Fuller opinions, Oregon primary results, Portland pickpockets, and local figures Sam Hughes and Judge Bean with vote tallies.
The Supreme Court sustained a territorial Utah court ruling overruling a juror challenge. The juror admitted reading newspaper reports of the crime and said impressions could be removed by testimony, challenging the idea that only those who never read papers can serve. Elsewhere, Grant county sheepmen faced a hostile reception on the South Fork, with wagons burned and supplies worth 1500 dollars seized before intruders fled Crook county. A notice from Mrs. Remick, spent two years in Oregon, notes her well known presence in Newberg and a Whittier Register item. Evangelist Mrs. Lida Remick preached at Friends church last Sunday.
The sermon urges Christians to avoid division over politics, arguing for moral conviction without testing church fealty. It notes state elections upcoming in August through November across Alabama Vermont Arkansas Maine Florida Georgia California Connecticut Idaho Illinois Indiana Kansas Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska New Hampshire New York North Carolina North Dakota South Dakota South Carolina Tennessee Texas Washington West Virginia Wisconsin and stresses governors are typically elected.
Col Watterson denounces Kentucky Democrats for repudiating historic party leadership. He argues the party abandoned Jefferson and Jackson and Cleveland, replacing them with Populism advocates and socialist and anarchist evangelists in a harsh critique of the current nominating process.
An editorial notes illiteracy rates among immigrants by nationality with Sweden Norway Germany France England Ireland Wales Russia Poland Austria Hungary Italy and others. The piece argues illiteracy mirrors immigration and warns that future voters from Austria Hungary Russia Italy Greece and other Mediterranean nations could be used by political bosses or anarchists, urging keeping out the illiterate “scam” of Europe.
Transfers filed by Yambill County Abstract Co McMinnville Oregon show warranty deeds to Stephen D Brynjolson Nora Burch Ruth Janett Bradley Wm Bull Wm Wilkinson J Cruikebank Charles Douglas Mary Allen Custer Kegg and others. Local notices report road work, school staffing changes, and a Grand Army of the Republic event with a baby christening.
A collection of short items includes an obituary for Hattie I. White detailing her birth in 1865, death in 1896, and Friends church ties. local notices about meetings of veterans groups, a squirrel extermination convention, and a sales pitch for DeWitt’s Colic & Cholera Cure.
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