13 Nov 1891
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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1891
Page
1
Fragmentary text mentions various numbers and terms likely from an advertisement or table. It includes references to prices, percentages, paper products, and possible company names, but lacks coherent sentences or identifiable events, people, or places.
Fragmentary text indicates a note about a cure or remedy and an associated list of sufferers. Names and places are unclear but reference BD, Bafa, and a 400 level code. The passage reads as a cryptic public notice or ad with medical or health context.
East and South via Southern Pacific Sishasta line schedules list departure and arrival times for Portland and Roseburg with connections to Salem Albany Eugene Roseburg Corvallis McMinnville and other way stations. Dining cars noted on Ogden route.
Local church notices list Presbyterian Friends Evangelical and Baptist services each Sunday weekend schedule with Sabbath school times. Pastors W A Willison and others are named with monthly quarterly meetings and Sabbath observances detailed.
Local groups announce schedules for devotionals and meetings. M C A holds Sunday evening services with a call for young men to attend. L O C F meets Saturday evenings over Moore's Drug Store. W U T U holds a business session on the second Saturday each month. G A meets first and third Thursday evenings. O Shied hosts a dress session on the third Thursday afternoon each month.
Through tickets and travel to Eastern States Canada and Europe offered at 14 First Street ticket office. All trains use Grand Central station Fifth and T streets. Portland and Willamette Valley Railway depot at foot of Jefferson Street serves Sheridan Dundee Dayton and Me Daily routes with ferry connections to Selinooul Milwaukie. R Koehler manager E P Rogers assistant gen passenger agent.
A West Side household hires a former farmer's worker who requests to dine with the family. The mistress agrees then serves the meal herself, causing the maid to faint and withdraw. The incident ends with the maid becoming a devoted “kitchen queen” after learning the dynamics of service.
A. B. Spreckels, son of Claus Spreckels, has purchased the entire San Diego street railway system and plans to introduce electric operation. The move comes as Fresno raisin shipments rise and rail prospects to Los Angeles appear favorable, with other California notes on gambling, crime, and industry included.
A long fragment lists figures from emperors to artists and officials, noting renames for rulers, diplomatic postings, and aristocratic interests. It mentions Emperors of Japan and China, Charles Stewart Parnell, and various travelers, with notes on land near Lodgewood and prominent sculptor Achille Perelli. It ends with a pardon petition for Mrs. Maybrick supported by President Harrison’s wife and Cabinet wives.
Assistant Secretary Panev reports year findings from the board of pension appeals showing 5024 appeals on January 1, 1900. He seeks Congress to fix pension adjustments and extend eligibility. Mint director outlines a new silver coin design for half dollars quarters and dimes with Liberty and In God We Trust on the obverse and the 1782 seal on the reverse.
A wide array of brief items spans public works in New York and Brooklyn, naval activity in Baltimore and Philadelphia, and irrigation in Jamaica Bay. Reports note Diphtheria outbreaks in an Iowa Norwegian settlement, new dredging plans for Brooklyn docks, and a tonnage of post offices reaching 4,391.
The piece notes Western University students in Alleghany abandoning cane rush for boxing. It cites a high number of night schools in New York and country teachers in Missouri, literacy in India, and enrollment at Imperial University of Tokio. It mentions a Kansas boy earning a teacher’s certificate, family work patterns, and many women teachers. It covers Clark University’s $50,000 scholarship gift from the late Lion George S. Barton, relocation plans for Lutheran Theological Seminary to Washington, and Northwestern University policies on visitors and curfews. It records Colonel Amos A. Parker’s 100th birthday, his status as a long-lapsed graduate from Vermont, the Fayerweather bequest aiding Dartmouth improvements, and the birth of the Methodist University of Washington. It tracks Harvard class sizes from 1642 onward, noting gradual growth to the present entering class.
Florida to reproduce Fort Marion at the Chicago exposition Nicaraguans seek half an acre for their site Brasilian Congress debates a 550000 grant for the fair A 40000000 gallon daily pumping plant costs 15000 Hamburg-America subscribes 5000 for stock London dealer Quartish to send Columbus autograph for 5000 Cape Town exhibit diamonds and feathers valued at 300000 Virginia builds 23 by 76 foot colonial pavilion for 20000 Arch Street flag birthplace to move to Chicago Naval exhibit progress women to gain medical staff parity Art Palace budget and design details California trunks for forestry building include sugar pine redwood and sequoia Pandora family from Jamaica to model clay figures in a Mexican exhibit
Market report lists produce and staples with prices across ports and regions. Items include Walla Walla wheat at 1.47 per cental and 2.45 per bushel, dairy and eggs at varied rates, and numerous fruits and vegetables. nuts, grains, and canned goods show wide price ranges.
A dense OCR of market quotations lists per pound, per ton, and per keg prices for foods and goods from coffee to canned fruit, meats, dairy, and hardware. Items include Saur-Liverpool 14.50, Rice-Japan 75.00, California citron 1.75 per gallon, Eagle brand milk 8.10 per case, corned beef 2.00, sardines 7c, and roofing supplies 6.75 per box among many others across vegetables, fruits, meats, and industrials.
The bulletin lists wool and tallow values from Willamette Valley and Eastern Oregon markets. Prices range 10 to 80 cents per pound for various grades, with specific notes on fleece size and shrinkage.
The notice lists various meat products with prices and weights including Murrow Live and Hoaw Live dressed meats, Veat bacon and smoked bacon by the pound, Swokken Maire Eastern ham, and Oregon sourced items. Prices range from 7c to 15c per pound with multiple varieties and package notes.
Movable price notes show net cash terms for burlaps in multiple sizes from 40 to 45 inches and various counts. Additional entries reference wheat and oat bags including a two bushel oat bag and second hand wheat bags with spot pricing.
Hopes rise for a new signaling device named Lucigraph to be used at sea. It would project letters or figures through stencil slides onto a screen flag on ships, readable at distance, using glass to focus the light. The passage ends with an arithmetical joke amid a courtroom scene.
A playful New York Telegraph report describes a cockroach vs a house fly in an uptown office ring. The roach dominates with superior ducking and right hand uppercuts, delivering a sixth round knockout to claim victory.
K. D. Cahota, born in China, came to the United States at age six and joined the Twenty third Massachusetts Volunteers in the Civil War. He fought under Col. Ellwood and Col. Raymond, gaining commendation at Cold Harbor and Petersburg, then settled into civilian life as an American citizen.
The silk industry has expanded to seven establishments employing 50,000 people and producing about 60 million dollars yearly. Domestic silks rise from 108 thousand in 1882 to 8 million in 1889, while imports fall from 57 million to 4 million, showing a strong domestic rise in staple goods and reliance on skilled foreign labor for high grade fabrics.
A midshipman of the navy develops a sounding method for the Atlantic using a thirty pound shot attached to a line. A drilled sinker hole allows an iron rod to pass freely, with a lard coated cup and sand retaining drop. Ground contact triggers a shock like an electric current.
In 1861 at the Surrey Theatre London Cheery John Maclean debuted as Peter Purcell amid managers Shepherd and Crenwick. A friend directed Shepherd to the newly engaged actor leading to a playful exchange about who was the idiot.
In a letter from Darjeeling Frank G. Carpenter extols Himalayan tea as superior to Chinese varieties. He notes numerous tea plantations, the bloom of local flora and the milk-like flavor of Tibet tea, urging American households to try Indian tea.
A fragment discusses the term pin money and offers a theory that a woman’s mouth holds pins for sale while she uses them. The writer notes the logic as an ancient trick that may have influenced a proverb, referencing Kate Field’s Washington.
Bystander describes a helpless woman unable to stand as Mrs De Style questions her condition. The scene notes observers wondering what ails the girl while speculation arises about her attire and state of health.
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