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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
4
The March 20 1913 Newberg Graphic notes a “potato day” drive to use up last season’s bumper crop with potatoes at 20 cents a sack. Corvallis women set a seven dollar limit on spring hats, providing a practical perk for millinery budgets for multiple daughters.
Portland occupies 55 square miles with an assured valuation of 290 million dollars and a population around 250,000. Despite a nationwide slow real estate market, skyscraper construction continues, underscoring Portland's status as a substantial Northwest city and its assured prospects as a major urban center.
The president vetoed the congressional bill to stop liquor shipments into dry areas. Taft calls the measure unconstitutional and expects the Supreme Court to rule on it after it becomes law. He warns that public fatigue with the liquor traffic may push voters to remove all obstacles to ending the trade.
The Hillsboro Independent questions the Graphic on the Rex Tigard road linking Multnomah and Yamhill counties. It argues six Washington County taxpayers are affected and urges more straightforward coverage of local highway concerns.
The Eugene Register quotes a grim view on Chicago crime probes and similar investigations, denouncing the double standard in morality. It argues women fall harder while men escape condemnation, calling the scarlet woman the era’s most tragic figure.
The notice lists pairs of names and ages for marriages or engagements: Myrle Rea aged 17 to Raymond E Miller aged 22, Eva Maymon aged 26 to W L Stone aged 44, May E Henderson aged 19 to A H Steeples aged 23, Louise Berry aged 20 to Walter W Helgie aged 34.
In Laredo Texas a female rebel waved a red flag and urged Carranzistas as they charged Nuevo Laredo. She fell in the final assault against federal defenders. The stand ended with at least 20 rebels and 15 federals dead and roughly 40 wounded cared for by American physicians and local women nurses.
The supreme court ousted Hunnewell Kansas city councilmen three after charges by Mrs. Ella Wilson the town’s woman mayor. They were found guilty of wilful misconduct in office and persistent failure to perform duties.
Plan for a preferential traffic agreement between Union Pacific and Southern Pacific over the Benicia cutoff from Oakland to Sacramento was abandoned in federal court. The dissolution decree now awaits new arrangements crafted by railway attorneys and the Attorney General to implement the Supreme Court ruling.
One hundred sixteen passengers mostly immigrants from Spain bound for Cuba were rescued from the British steamer Lugano after it ran ashore on the Ajax reef off the Florida coast. Two first class passengers were aboard. The Sua Rescue aided in the evacuation.
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