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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1913
Page
4
The Newberg Graphic notes readers risk being mistaken for a candidate for Commissioner in Portland. It comments that J A Hart, writing in the Weekly Visitor, gives LaFayette a better paper than when it served as Yamhill county's government seat.
The Albany Democrat editor mockingly suggests that more soap suds and less paint would improve the appearance of Albany girls, framing the critique as a social fashion note.
The British steamer Baron Napier docked at Portland with a cargo of 300000 feet of Philippine hardwood lumber. It will sail back loaded with Oregon fir lumber, catching them coming and going.
A remark from the Albany Democrat notes a town lacking a strong brass band feels like a cemetery without a tombstone. The piece quips how youths practicing trumpet tones on the breeze evoke a graveyard filled with stones.
The city of Eugene has paved streets in recent years and papers discuss how to keep them clean. Critics say the current system is unsanitary and unsatisfactory.
The Oregon Retail Liquor Dealers Association offers Gov West aid both morally and legally to prosecute saloonkeepers selling to intoxicated patrons, promising extraordinary measures if needed. The governor suggests appointing a special state agent paid by the association with arrest powers to aid prosecutions statewide.
The Dalles Optimist asserts Krupp and German firms funded newspapers in France and Germany to spark war for profits. It claims similar plots occurred in England and Germany and links war scares at home to calls for forts and larger armed forces. The piece argues selfish interests fuel conflict while the world seeks peace and trade.
A study by Robt. Withycomb at the Eastern Oregon experiment station tests raw and steamed potatoes as pig feed with grain. Eight hog lots show varied gains, steamed potatoes outperform raw, barley alone serves as a check, and current values assign feeding worth to both potato forms.
The New York Times recalls Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie in a Burma embassy prank at the Tuileries. Burman dignitaries staged a theatrical procession leaving Eugenie distressed as the beards and turbans were removed to reveal escorts. Napoleon later reconciled with her weeks later. Stephen Girard’s remark about starting life with sixpence caps the piece.
Fred Harrison arrives from Portland to stay with local relatives. A J Pierce and family from Centerville Washington drive down for a month or more visit with Mrs Pierce's parents Mr and Mrs S W Childers. They plan a Willamette valley tour with the locals Mr and Mrs L H Meyers present.
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