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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1903
Page
13
The Newberg Graphic discusses beautifying homes by planting flowers and urges road master focus to improve highways. It highlights Oregon Information Bureau outreach, local hospitality to homeseekers, and the Board of Trade role in promoting new investments with supportive neighborly actions.
An exchange attributed a tale of a brass monkey automaton in a cigar store window that drew and puffed a cigarette, then stopped. Disassembly revealed internal gears clogged with cigarette ash causing failure. The moral was added by the exchange, but the story conveyed its own lesson.
The county court plans no road master this year amid fears of wasteful extravagance. A mass meeting last week urged continuing the current roadmaking method, arguing that after one season with limited equipment the county produced better roads this winter than under the previous haphazard approach.
Real estate transfers list numerous deeds and payments among residents and firms in Newberg, Newberg area, and nearby additions. Transactions include Braithwaite to Edwards add to Newberg, Snodgrass to Baker, Oliver to Scott, Fling to Butterfield, Everest to McCormick, Hurley to Wise, and many others with prices from 60 to 800 dollars. A related editorial paragraph urges better rural mail routes and road work, followed by notices about a ten dollar reward for fence damage and a relocation notice for J Mrren across the street from the old stand.
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