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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
8
L A Culp is hospitalized and Henry McNee held for grand jury after a shooting on the Owyhee ten miles southeast of Vale. Culp forbade passage through Huffman ranch, Barton cut the wire, Culp fired near Barton’s head, Culp wounded in left leg, McNee and others returned fire.
Salem celebrated the formal dedication of the Portland, Eugene and Eastern bridge linking the Willamette valley west and east sides. Thousands cheered as Governor West's daughter in white scattered carnations from the pilot engine, amid blasts, bands, and a gala atmosphere. The bridge ties the Salem Falls City line with a new Fir and Silverton branch, marking a key Harriman interurban project.
Pendleton Chief Shees-Mok-a-noot known as Chief No Beet leaves for Washington to meet with federal officials on money owed to Umatilla tribesmen. The delay has drawn criticism from leaders awaiting approval of the settlement.
A well dressed man about 35 years old hanged himself in a park outhouse. Three boys found the body. He wore a blue striped suit with Kemp & Hebert label from Spokane, brown hair blue eyes, smooth shaven, derby hat, gold rim eyeglasses.
Governor West released 1914 tax projections showing total biennial appropriations at 6.5 million dollars. Direct taxation for next year would rise to about 3.81 million, about four mills, almost 3.4 times the current year’s levy, with 1.12 million to be raised by direct tax this year.
Mrs Stanley Swalkoski of 302 Eugene Street asks Municipal Court Judge Tatwell to commit her to the rockpile rather than her husband who is sentenced to 30 days for carrying a revolver. She pleads to have him released to care for their 6 year old child.
The article recalls six and eight line shop ads from colonial Boston and Salem. It cites a lemon shop in 1769 offering lemons and stock at fixed prices, notices of braziery and cutlery, an animal shop, wigmaker, and a dentist who paid cash for live teeth. It notes a silhouette shop promising fashion profiles and drawings, with prices for separate views.
A returned traveler describes encountering the Count of Pompadour in a Rue de Saint Gerard barber shop in Paris. The Count, known for his Newport visit, reportedly acknowledged the speaker as next for a haircut, eliciting memories of their past clash at Newport.
An exchange notes that birds have enormous muscular power with an eagle of fourteen pounds lifting a forty two pound pig. It also questions how many men could carry three times their weight. The ostrich kick is deadly, capable of breaking a leg or thigh of a horse.
Cardinal Mercianti died in 1849 at seventy five. He spoke more than fifty languages and could entertain English friends with Yorkshire dialect and visitors with French or German patois. Byron quipped he would have been a universal interpreter in Babel times.
A London sketch records a playwright’s quip about a redheaded office boy with a waste paper basket going downstairs. The editor asks if the contributor’s ideas were used, and the scene confirms the boy is implementing them.
Harper's weekly columnist George Buchanan Fife chronicles the Bowery as a stage for diverse lamp light. He notes moonlit clocks and elevated tracks, bright shop windows, mission doorway warmth, and a mix of respectable and disreputable lights. A fashion emporium sparks a lamp surge, and the Bowery's glow grows year by year.
Berlin bans railway whistles within city limits and prohibits hucksters from crying wares. Street singing and loud calls are not allowed. Noisy vehicle rattles trigger fines and piano playing is restricted by police hours. Courts have broad discretion for noise fines.
The Rev Dr Marshall, a very large man, exits a Dublin meeting and asks the cab driver for the fare to Drumcondra. The driver plays on words claiming religious titles, and refuses to move until a price is named. The exchange turns humorous as the driver warns of the horse bolting at the sight of the clergyman.
A caller offers a cheap article to a woman who refuses, sparring insults fly as she claims her husband’s money and demands five items. The intercambio ends with sharp remarks about earnings and generosity.
On Westerland Island near Hamburg a small graveyard holds nameless sea wreck victims unclaimed by families. Since 1855 the cemetery has interred over sixty forgotten individuals. In 1888 a stone inscribed The Home of the Homeless marks the site, with each mound bearing a black cross.
Store advertises March 23 24 specials for record candy at Diment's confectionery Maple Blocks Burnt Peanuts Cocoanut Cubes Cream Covered Dates Candy Peach Stones Yorkshire Diamonds thirty cent values at fifteen cents per pound.
A dealer advertises a large smooth potato of best quality priced at 30 cents per sack with buyer-provided sacks, or 40 cents if the seller provides sacks. Contact J. W. Barcroft of Newberg.
G. S. Hoaglin offers 244 acres near Newberg with easy terms. Sale details indicate proximity to town and flexible financing for buyers seeking land close to the city.
Eggs for hatching from Buff Rocks advertised as excellent for producers. Eggs ready for delivery at one dollar per fifteen. Contact E. H. Woodward.
A missionary sermon will be preached by the pastor on Easter morning with an evening missionary program rendered by the Sunday School.
G. S. Hoaglin advertises two one acre tracts seven blocks from the Newbery post office with easy terms.
On Saturday March 29 beginning at 1 o'clock a residence sale will offer all household and kitchen furniture including dressers beds davenport rockers sideboard writing desk and more. Going away nothing reserved. Mrs Marie Crabtree Red 36.
A breakfast table exchange between Helen aged ten and her older sister from the New York Journal recalls a dream of rising and falling. The sister jokes that the dream represents Helen’s soul going to heaven to reflect on naughty deeds and then returning to her body. Helen imagines waking in heaven during the ascent and wonders what she would do.
A boy six or seven quips that his grandfather, a notable figure in letters and affairs, is not truly great. When a visitor extols the elder, the child retorts that his great grandfathers are greater, highlighting a humorous family moment reported by Woman's Home Companion.
G. S. Hoaglin offers a house and lot close in to Newberg on monthly payments. 1% acres available. Terms require inquiry at 215 N. Meridian.
Those planning installation or subscribers wishing to change numbers or names in the new directory should notify us no later than the 18th. Newberg Telephone Company.
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