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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1917
Page
4
Newberg voters urged to support the Oregon bonding proposition for improving roads. Women voters are urged to vote for the good roads bond, and residents are reminded of the May 31 posting and the upcoming July Chautauqua. A state penitentiary reform vote is also on the ballot.
The text commends Judge Charles L. McNary as Oregon’s appointed U.S. Senator to serve until the next general election. It highlights his proven record, work ethic, and clear stance supporting national prohibition and woman’s suffrage, while noting he is en route to Washington to assume the seat.
Frank S. Myers opposed road bonds in Newberg arguing against paving costs. The Graphic counters that progress requires improved highways under the bonding act and notes property sales lag but supports modernization to keep pace with neighboring states.
A criminal lawyer relates defending Rebecca Irwin a confessed forger in a bank check case. After expert disagreement and a hidden maternal sacrifice the bank reveals the real culprit was a youth Dixon who forged for a friend. The judge grants mercy and the lawyer marries the noble woman.
The piece defines the microscopic dot as the first spark of life from which all growth emerges. It claims this dot carries the entire past history of living beings and encodes the miniature future of each organism.
The term arose in Bethlehem hospital where an Abraham ward allowed inmates to go out as licensed de fare. Mendicant lunatics were called Abraham men and their success drew imitators who, when found, were said to have shammed Abraham.
The piece notes that when Utopia first published it caused a pleasant mistake. It describes a political romance about a perfect visionary island in the Atlantic near these shores. Granger cites Budaeus and others who took it as history and sent missionaries to convert the people.
The tarantula, named from Taranto, is described as the most venomous spider. Its sting was said to cause tarantism, a disease cured only by music or dancing, specifically the tarantella. Peasants now dance tarantella without spider bites.
Professor Alfred Newton of Cambridge declares bird migration the greatest mystery in the animal kingdom. He argues the phenomenon cannot be explained by modern science any more than by ancient savages.
A fragment from a 19th century anecdote recalls Edwin Booth the tragedian with a broken nose. A woman compliments his acting and jokes about his nose, to which Booth quips that the bridge is gone.
The Civic Improvement Club invites loyal citizens to a 1:30 p m city park meeting for cleaning and beautification using rakes tools and wheelbarrows. Volunteers are asked to help ready the grounds for upcoming events. Committee notes.
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