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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1921
Page
4
The Newberg Graphic issue from March 24 1921 lists editor and publisher E H Woodward and standard newspaper data with office address 600 First St and contact numbers White 33 Blue 87. It announces weekly Thursday publication and annual subscription price of 2 dollars.
On March seven a contract was made for the sale of the Newberg Graphic to W J Nottage and Chester A Dimond with possession April first. A note promises closing remarks after thirty one years and three months as editor and publisher. West of Newberg residents split over a proposed new school district and a boundary board hearing is announced by County Superintendent Duncan in another column.
Noah Beilharz, famed as Amelia's greatest character artist, brings his closing lyceum program to Wood-Mar Hall on Friday night. Reserved seats cost 50 cents and general admission 35 cents.
The University of Oregon male quartet from Eugene will perform a concert with music and recitations Friday April first at 8:00 p m under the C E society of the Christian church. Tickets can be bought from society members or at McCoy's garage. A pre concert banquet for society members will precede the event.
Little Billey Sleeper visits grandparents in Portland. Kenneth Fendall and Grant Yergen return from O A C for ten days. Upstreamer's Class hosts a church party with refreshments and games. Easter plans and Sunday school events noted. W C T U members attend Chehalem Center institute with a lunch.
Wreckers uncover two wicker hampers in Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theater caves containing oldtime costumes a diary of Junius Brutus Booth a license for Booth's father to practice law signed by the king of England and vintage playbills. A marble lithograph stone bearing John Sleeper Clark advertisements was also found.
A fragment describes a method of photographing magnified objects using the microsonne and mentions Nave about the Royal Microscopical Society in London. The text is garbled but centers on optical imaging techniques and the device’s use.
The New York Evening Post reports that shielding incandescent light yields a mono chromatic UV filtered beam allowing minute objects to be photographed at 2,200 diameters. The experiment suggests specially corrected UV lenses could extend photography similarly for the microscope as it has for the telescope.
Over two million acres in the country were planted with peanuts last year as demand climbs. Peanuts pack high nutrition with fat and protein, and shell or oil yields are highlighted. Peanut oil is praised as a cooking fat and a potential lard substitute.
Adolf Noeren, long professor of philology at Updala, begins a movement to fuse Norwegian Danish and Swedish. His goal is to enable a Danish drama to be performed in Stockholm without translation, a task he views as stupendous yet possible for a philologist.
A missionary tale from China notes a Christian girl aged twenty eight who refused heathen suitors. A country tenant farmer balked at marrying her, citing her skirt embroidery and fashion as a barrier, despite her beauty and Christian character.
A kitten crawled into the rim of a large flywheel at the Great Northern mills in Burlington Nebraska and slept as the wheel ran for nine hours. Unnoticed, the machine moved the cat about the plant and even after stopping for the night the kitten remained alive. Officials estimate the creature had covered 600 miles in the wheel.
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