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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1889
Page
1
A humor weekly editor, Mr Skimmer, meets the Embodiment of Humorous Conception who critiques originality. After an attempted collaboration, circulation falls and Skimmer ends the partnership, while the Conception claims future success for the paper. Life notes the weekly becomes the owner’s gold mine.
A Time quip portrays a Western health resort as a place where officials and locals fall ill or die rapidly. The anecdote sketches a somber scene with a postmaster, marshal, banker, storekeeper, express agent, hotel man, druggist, minister, and doctor all affected, highlighting the resort’s reputation as a health retreat.
The article describes how daughters of elite New York families receive modest weekly or monthly allowances. It notes examples from Jay Gould Cornelius Vanderbilt and others, emphasizing teaching money value through cash accounts and fines for misdeeds. It highlights varied spending on flowers, parosols, theater tickets, and charity, with parental oversight and occasional cash advances.
North China News reports the Dowager Empress selecting Yeh-hoh-na-la as consort to the young Emperor of China with two other girls chosen for the harem. The process included inspections, caravans to Pekin, a banquet, and judging by tablets, with rejection signified by a silk roll and removal to carts. The piece notes the cost and hardship for poor families.
A banker Reginald de Montmorency tests a Count in a mansion parlor on G Street. Gladys Montmorency dreams of the Count while a scheme leads to a deadly supper test. The Count tests them, Gladys contemplates suicide, and the Count dies in a haystack fire on his way home.
A discussion contrasts nine’s stay in the calendar with eight's century dominance and historic progress from manual weaving to electric power. The almanac editor recalls era changes from clothing by hand to modern machinery and wonders if future generations will see similar leaps before the nine ends.
The Tilden library in the old Til den home boasted four grand rooms, skylights and stained glass with rare prints from Dие Spira and Bodoni. It housed Jeffersons diary, rare law books by Grotius Puffendorf and Montesquieu and a vast collection of pamphlets from many nations. Samuel J. Tildens bequest to New York citizens defined a national treasure of printed lore and legal lore alike.
A Washington Post recounts 1879 Sandusky visit where Garfield, lacking proper linen, wore Foster's shirt made to fit with neck strap and pinned seams. The improvised garment caused comic discomfort as Garfied greeted guests and strained to maintain dignity amid the altered cuffs and oversized sleeves.
EK Woopwakp presides as Jnese Edwanps and Jesse Hanson Gronae join B. S. Morrison Epwix Morrison and others at the Spring Term close. Principal Assistants noted as part of the Newberg school administration wrap.
Friends' Pacific Academy in Newberg Oregon sits on the Porthand and Willamette Valley railroad twenty two miles from Portland and one mile from Rogers Landing on the Willamette river. It opened for pupils September 28 1885 with nineteen in the first week then 26 in 1886 and fifty one in the present school year with 110 in winter term. The building was partly completed at opening. halls and dormitories were added in summers 1856 1887 and the gymnasium and dormitory hall were begun and the Academy building completed. The trustees plan further additions as needed. For catalogue or information contact Edwin Morrison Principal E H Woodward President of the Board.
The article views Count Herbert von Bismarck as the likely successor to Otto von Bismarck, detailing his birth in 1849, schooling, wartime service, and rapid rise in diplomacy. It notes his close role to his father, his positions from Secretary of Legation to Under-Secretary, and his prominence alongside the Emperor. Herbert’s appearance is described as tall and handsome with dark hair and a dense mustache.
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