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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1900
Page
4
A collage of advertising blurbs notes reading speeds by a French statistician and lifetime reading estimates. It promotes Allen’s Foot-Ease for sore feet, foot-care products, and a malarial tonic, plus various household remedies, a Chicago library expansion, and teething syrup.
Bradstreet's notes irregular weather and price shifts but overall business improves as the anthracite strike ends. Wage gains for miners aid producing regions and demand for iron and steel shows stronger inquiry. Wheat shipments rise while U S and Canadian failures fall. mentions Chinese situation and odd medical and horticultural diversions.
Beattie Markets lists new onions at four cents, hot house lettuce at one dollar per crate, new potatoes F106, beets and tornipes per sack, wax beans four cents, cucumbers and native cabbage by the pound, assorted fruits including oranges and lemons, dairy items such as butter and cheese, various meats with prices, and bulk grains and hay. Also notes Portland and Valley market quotes for wheat barley flour and hay, with numerous per ton and per sack prices.
Joel Shomaker, editor of Farmer and Dairyman in North Yakima Washington, recounts his 1884–1900 struggle with locomotor ataxia and heart strain. After failed treatments he credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People and cold water baths with restoring his health and weight to 200 pounds.
An advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic with the formula shown on every bottle and promises no cure no pay for 60 cents. A note mentions the "elephant beetle" of Venezuela as the largest insect, with a full-grown specimen weighing about half a pound.
A two foot diameter crab with three foot legs was caught in the Indian Ocean, brought to Calcutta aquarium, and after devouring smaller prisoners, emitted a white phosphorescent glow at night while hiding among rocks, drawing curious visitors.
The piece cites J. T. Campbell of Sycamoore Illinois praising Hood's Sarsaparilla for kidney weakness and backache. He says years of pain kept him bedridden until the medicine made him well and strong again. The ad portrays the remedy as a general cure for despondency and bodily weakness.
A bed side adjustable table with raised or lowered diameter doubles as a reading desk by a simple knob. The design suits invalids confined to bed and requires minimal assistance. Giraffe skins have risen in value due to scarcity, fetching twenty to fifty dollars. A note on tea biscuits warns against overly large sizes and promotes two inch discs for tenderness.
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