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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1914
Page
3
Oregon voters delivered crushing defeats to nearly all ballot measures in the general election with only four passing. Prohibition won in every county except Clatsop where it narrowly failed by 54 votes. Total pro measures include full citizenship, city consolidation, and death penalty repeal.
Governor West issued a proclamation to bar cattle imports from states where foot and mouth disease is prevalent and to impose safeguards for Oregon cattle. Leading cattle dealers from Portland urged action and formed a committee representing livestock interests to press for the measure.
Complete returns from all counties show Dr. James Withycombe republican elected Oregon governor by 26 640 plurality over Dr. C J Smith democrat. George E Chamberlain democrat wins US Senate by about 23 000 votes over R A Booth republican. Official from 24 counties. remaining counties unofficial though complete.
Mrs. Vada Grier shot her husband Frank Grier with a 22 caliber rifle at the Grier farm barn one mile west of Mill City. He was wounded in the abdomen and medical reports say he is between life and death at Mill City hospital. She confronted officers at the door with the gun, refused arrest, and the shooting followed a quarrel after Frank and S G Wilson went to the farm for hay.
The Salem state emergency board authorized a deficiency of 7000 to finance the printing plant and 9000 to cover inmates at several Portland institutions. The funds address the present quarter and part of the third quarter for the Boys' and Girls' Aid, St Marys Home Ba bies' Home Albertina Kerr nursery St Agnes Home and Christie Home.
Salem state board of control recommends the legislature appropriate 314 940 for the eastern Oregon Insane Asylum for the next two years. The request shows a 30 121 increase from the last appropriation due to rising inmate population and higher living costs.
The first recall election in Florence led to the recall of Mayor Evans amid stormy weather. In the recall ballot 9% voted yes and 78 against. in mayoral balloting C B Morey received 104 votes and Evans 74.
Official dispatch from general headquarters reports German forces holding the line on the left bank of the Vistula from Plock to the Warta. It notes enemy withdrawals between Kalisz and Wieluń and failures of a southward Russian offensive near Czestochowa. Berlin cites strong provincial confidence in defense.
Officers of the American Federation of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations were elected. President E. A. Bryan of Washington State College heads the list with vice presidents J. H. Worst North Dakota T. F. Hunt California C. D. Woods Maine P. H. Rolfs Florida and C. A. Lary Colorado in the group.
Paris dispatch reports during heavy fighting German troops halted a retreat to care for wounded. A British officer bravely dragged a German soldier to shelter after being wounded himself and both were later picked up by a German ambulance. The officer received the Iron Cross and was recommended for the Victoria Cross before dying of his wounds.
San Antonio report quotes Enrique Liorente special representative to Wash ington from the Aguas Calientes convention. General Villa is prepared to retire from command and leave Mexico if Carranza insists and remains earnest. Liorente says Villa will comply in good faith.
Paris reports that German troops were driven to the right bank of the Yser Canal after days of resistance. An official tally describes heavy German casualties in the Ypres assault and notes captures, including a detachment of 120 Germans from a unit of 1000. The ruined village of Dixmude was seized on the canal’s right bank.
Allied and German forces stay in a stalemate in West Flanders where snow covers the ground ankle deep and intermittent artillery duels and infantry clashes have continued for over a month without a clear outcome.
The article explains the shift to federal reserve notes backed by commercial paper and gold reserves in regional banks. It notes notes will rise and fall with business activity, replace existing bank notes, and serve as Treasury obligations with backing to aid member banks in need of cash.
Thousands of men women and children gathered at dawn in Petrograd before the doors of the state liquor shop as the last day to purchase light wine and beer under government light drink laws before the act becomes absolute on Monday.
Washington announces plans to evaluate Vera Cruz by November 22 unless blocked. Secretary Bryan declines to name a custody recipient for the city, but reports say Funston will surrender to de facto authorities. The U.S. will not recognize any Mexican faction upon transfer, awaiting guarantees from Carranza and the Aguas Calientes convention.
Mexico City reports a Cordoba dispatch stating General Carranza proposed that General Gutierrez take over the military forces from General Gonzales if General Villa yields command and goes to Havana by November 25. The plan would see Gutierrez and Villa in Havana on the same date.
London reports the dominions unanimously approving a 1.125 billion dollar war credit and a proposed army of one million men. Prime Minister Asquith called the crisis the greatest emergency, noting 1.2 million already under arms and daily costs near six million dollars. The government would lend Belgium 60 million and Serbia four million without interest to end of the war.
The 46th annual National American Woman Suffrage Association convention in Nashville ends with an apparent truce between opposing elements. St. Shaw was unopposed for president.
An English official recounts a submarine voyage under the sea. The account traces ballast indicators, water pressure, and the eerie transition from darkness to sunlight as the craft dives and rises. The crew endures restricted air, rising turbulence, and the sudden rush of fresh air when the hatch opens.
An English writer imagines a voyage to the nearest star using 500 miles per hour and a fare of 2 cents per 100 miles, totaling 5,500,000 dollars and a travel time of 5,839,440 years. By riding a ray of light the journey shrinks to four and a quarter years, reaching the moon in a little over a second, the sun in eight minutes, and Neptune in four years.
Mr B dining out offers a graceful apology by praising the housekeeper for the meal. He says he has paid the highest compliment by eating heartily. The hostess replies that his politeness borders on flattery in tone and spirit.
Rhodes endures as a medieval stronghold with towers curtains and keeps built by the Knights of St John after Byzantium era. The well preserved fortifications and stone dwellings reveal a dramatic military and residential landscape from the early fourteenth century era.
In a caustic exchange, The Magnate questions a son’s talent in a small town, acknowledging waste but arguing there is little value elsewhere. The dialogue exposes tensions between ambition and place.
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