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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1896
Page
4
A Boston Gazette tale describes a traveler’s Africa gifts, a Chicago jeweler gilding South African Republic gold coins to eye-fix and brighten them. The coins, red gold and pure, were turned into flashy keepsakes as a city spectacle of refinement.
Dr A W Carnes spoke at a Hutchins reunion of pioneers in Dallas County praising the 1844 slogan Polk Dallas and Texas and predicting how Texas transformed from vast prairies into a center of arts and sciences under early American leaders. He likened Texas history to Arabian Nights with pioneers building cities and industries like Dallas and Texas.
The Theatre Francais managers restrict bonnets large or small in the stalls at matinee and evening shows provoking strong protests from Paris women who want to wear their small bonnets. The dispute centers on coiffure disruption and a dressing room caretaker turning away cherished bonnets. The piece also notes farming progress and promotes Lb. M. Ferry & Co seeds and their free annual guide mailed on request.
The article traces the Coliseum’s turbulent history from a fortress and market to a site blessed by Benedict XIV for the Via Crucis in 1740. It notes the growing pilgrim visitors led by a Franciscan friar, the reaction of Roman society, and a French zonave procession returning to barracks, all amid a somber, reflective mood.
The New York Herald describes a cluster of dark skinned Greek candy peddlers who sleep on chalk marked floors in ro omy East Side rooms near Roosevelt and Cherry streets. They load carts with colored candy each night and share space with the candy maker who profits from sales and rent.
A collection of quotations on family pride and human virtue. The voice contrasts pride in a son’s Greek ease with reflections on value, fate, liberty, duty, character, and the need to earn benefits through ingenuity and effort.
The article recalls Eliza Kortright Monroe’s famous social stance of not returning calls, inspiring presidential etiquette rules drafted by John Quincy Adams. It notes Monroe’s young marriage after James Monroe’s early political rise and his courtship with Lawrence Kortright’s daughter in New York.
A discussion at the English Church Congress highlights a workingman as the strongest advocate for strict Sunday observance. He challenges modern supporters to show a worker who defends leisure as rest and home life over secular amusements.
A feature profiles a prison record clerk at Sing Sing known as John Smith or the walking encyclopedia. He is praised by Warden Rage for memory and intelligence while concealing his true identity. his duties include inmate examinations and assisting prison medicine. The piece notes his long prison tenure and unique place in crime lore.
In New York during a moral reform wave a gambler describes a high stakes poker game called senator where the house paid players to bluff and win. A reporter loses $500 to $400 and is approached by the proprietor who offers $1000 to make him forget the loss, after which the man swears off reporting.
The folding bed, once highly popular, is vanishing from orders as two major factories shift to other furniture lines. Accidents and bulkiness hurt its appeal, and buyers increasingly favor brass and iron beds now common in England and rising in popularity over the past five years.
A historical suggestion advises those rarely wearing formal attire to preempt cold exposure by bathing chest and shoulders with alcohol the day before and continuing through the next day. It also recommends wearing lighter undergarments in the hours before dressing to acclimate gradually.
Lansinburgh resident and former G A R officer W Edwards says a 100 mile journey in sunstroke left him with heart disease nervous exhaustion insomnia and rheumatism. After taking Pink Pills his symptoms improved dramatically restoring sleep mobility and circulation and easing head pressure and despondency.
An old advertisement touts Hogtetter's Stomach Bitters as a safe recuperator for weakness, dyspepsia, malaria, rheumatic and kidney complaints and biliousness. The snippet ends with a scene of a boy defending his brother from punishment.
The text urges daily care to prevent bigger troubles but notes many sufferers lack quick remedies for sudden pains. It promotes Bt Jacobs Oil as prompt relief for backache toothache or neuralgic headache, suggesting immediate comfort when in reach. The passage then shifts to a maritime scene with a wavering ship approaching the shore and a bold coast, hinting at retreat or danger.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional illness by direct action on blood and mucous surfaces with a $100 reward for non cure. Also promoted is Kilmer's Great Nerve Restorer promising cures for fits with a free booklet and bottle offer.
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