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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1897
Page
2
Newberg Graphic notes March 26 1897 edition urging graveling public roads as rain promises bountiful harvests and reports Fitzsimmons retirement. It pokes fun at political talk and jokes about servants linked to diplomats while praising Oregon’s potential.
A Kaneas City depot notice warns against expectorating on floors with penalties of fine and imprisonment. The issue of public decency is linked to a broader war on the habit as Astorians hear calls for legislative assemblies and enforce an ordinance banning spitting on sidewalks and in public buildings.
The piece notes successful log towing from the lower Columbia to San Francisco and outlines another raft built at Stella for the coast voyage this season. Oregon supplies the logs, workers stand ready, and the transport scheme is deemed feasible plus crews are eager for work.
The column cites statistics on lunacy rates among English Welsh Irish populations and cites Professor Schooling asserting liquor drives a large share of insanity. It also previews Ex President Harrison writing about social life in the White House and his pay and duties.
A writer recalls ten years ago at the Kansas City depot the crowded scene as people from Iowa Illinois and Indiana sought fortune in Western Kansas. He notes parallel rail lines and booms then contrasts current travel with vacant sleepers and fewer crowds while recounting local ingenuity and boomtown rise and decline.
The account describes a Kansas town booming in August with new houses, water works, banks, and two railroads, then crashing after the boom. Population swelled to 3,009 before a swift decline as properties were bid in by the county, banks failed, and buildings moved away as residents fled to Oklahoma.
A historical notice reports Democratic journals shifting toward acceptance of a protective tariff for revenue. It notes past pledges to free trade, the failing tariff policy, and editorial nuance as Brooklyn Eagle and others urge passage of a tariff tied to government expenses. It argues that Republicans must advance a protective bill per the people’s mandate.
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