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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1894
Page
4
A brief card notes the Royal Baking Powder Company located at 106 Wall Street. The entry provides no further details beyond the address and vendor name.
A London Times note cites Professor Huxley reflecting on a west coast of Scotland sea serpent report. He questions the credibility of a second yacht crew deposition and notes the first observer may have mixed observations with conclusions.
A Chicago Mall note explains how Eskimos of Cieenland say numbers from twenty to twenty four using phrases like a man, five men, and innumerable. It compares with Kelwedies and Abts counting schemes such as one hands for six and two on hand for eight, revealing diverse numeral expressions.
The Lewiston Journal states Maine's wild lands are vast enough to form fourteen states the size of Rhode Island two times the area of New Hampshire Vermont and one state twice as large as Massachusetts in the period description.
The Royal Baking Powder is praised for superior leavening strength and purity. It shows 20 percent greater leavening power than its nearest competitor and 44 percent above the average among rivals. The product is acclaimed for fineness and wholesome food quality, driving sales beyond all others.
Selene Crane proposes portable electrical methods to desalinate seawater for drinking aboard ships. She notes this could avert a major terror for shipwrecked crews if a compact apparatus could be carried in a boat.
James W Stout of Ripley Illinois, once bedridden by sciatic rheumatism and lumbago, credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with his dramatic turnabout. After months of agony, loss of weight, and failed treatments, he regained appetite, strength, and mobility, eventually walking without crutches and weighing 166 pounds. The Pills are sold by dealers or mail order from Dr Williams Med Co Schenectady NY.
Maude Haywood explains two methods for preserving the suction in clay artifacts. Casting in plaster versus baking in a kiln produce different cotta results, with clay must be free from lumps and kept pliable by soaking and continuous damp cloth coverings. Weather and handling affect moisture, and patience improves pliability and success.
The piece profiles Admiral Richard W. Meade noting his New York birth in 1837, naval rise, and writings. It also covers President G W Perkins of the Cigarmakers’ International Union and the blue label, the Russian Czarina, Empress, and a Chicago reformer Rev W G Clarke who founded the Civic Federation to curb gambling and vice. It mentions William J Pugh, Cincinnati lawyer and new Income Tax superintendent, detailing the political funding limits and his career.
The text recounts William Booth birth and parentage, notes his amiable disposition, and describes grave health doubts about his fitness for ministry. A physician judged him unfit for strain, yet Booth pursued preaching with steadfast endurance, enduring hardship over many years.
A New York Sun review of Miss Emily Penrose on ancient Greek women contrasts their strict roles with modern freedoms. It notes girls' early betrothal, domestic duties, ritual education, and oversight of households, yet acknowledges their influence on poetry, art, and religious life.
The text extols faith in St. Jacobs Oil as a permanent cure for chronic pains and rheumatism, asserting that belief aids healing and that physicians recognize that belief in treatment improves cure rates. It claims thousands of users and repeated success as proof.
A Naples report claims a Titian portrait of Christopher Columbus, life size and full length, discovered by Signor Cannavina after sale from Count Aldobrandi. The painting, hidden beneath a coarse coat, shows a gray haired blue eyed admiral in uniform with three rings on tapering fingers. Documents allegedly verify authenticity and it will be sent to Chicago for exhibition.
An Ohio State Journal piece describes a friend who borrows and never repays. It notes that while the borrower may be well meaning, the act harms private property rights and strains relationships through frequent requests for change or lending items.
The piece argues that belief in incurable illness is common and praises Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for treating dyspepsia, constipation, liver and kidney trouble, and nervousness. It suggests persistence will overcome obstinate cases and notes a social remark about a girl at a reception and a suggestion to see an oculist.
The World's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo offers correspondence treatment for backache fatigue memory loss dizziness melancholy and discouragement caused by exhausting diseases or drains on the system. A 136 page book on these maladies can be mailed sealed for 10 cents with postage paid.
In Scribner's Legends about the Moon a caravan tale of Arabs and camels unfolds with vivid desert imagery and reflections on fate. A separate Philadelphia Telegraph correlative reports Edward Fuller’s botched train theft ending with his arrest in Harrisburg after a water-deluged baggage car incident.
The ad asserts Alcock's Porove Plasters as the genuine external remedy, dismissing imitations as false and inferior. It quotes medical authorities and grateful patients praising Alcock's, while warning buyers to avoid substitutes and to demand Avtcock's.
Advertises Belby's Challenge OE C Smokeless powder and Superior smokeless shotgun cartridges. Claims cleaner recoil with no ear din or smoke unlike black powder. Promotes fresh load by Belby products and directs readers to Northwest News Company and J F Handley & Co in Portland Oregon for subscriptions.
An old advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure laxative improving health by cleansing the system and aiding kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. It claims universal satisfaction, medical approval, and states it is sold in bottles by druggists and only manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co with its name on each package.
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