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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1894
Page
2
Fragments report Indiana election shifts, corn yields in Illinois, Portland bank closure with O N Denny appointed receiver, and diverse notes on politics temperance and transportation. Mentions Wilson’s defeat, Dublin London dinners, and railroad access asserting Portland’s rail rivalries.
A local column notes Oregon’s fine fall weather while contrasting it with political defeat. It cites Hood’s verse about gloom and reports a Woodlawn infant recover from a skull injury after a rusty nail incident. It laments income tax enforcement hitting those earning over 4000 and notes winter preparations amid shortages.
A Salem Post editorial critiques Oregon school directors and state lawmakers noting legislators’ pay and furnished desks, while a Courier editorial calls for better teacher qualifications. It reports on contracts, moving a Knoxville brick house, and subscribers offered a free year of The Granite newspaper.
In a United States court this morning an order authorized Receiver McNeill of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company to spend 12000 dollars to build a steamer for the Upper Willamette. The craft will be named Hiawatha with 160 foot length and 34 foot beam, designed for ample freight and light draft. Most machinery is on hand, saving 14000 to 16000 in cost. work to begin after the Modoc is launched.
Readers urge South ern Pacific Co to install a cheap stove in the Newberg depot waiting room to provide warmth for women and travelers. The letter notes long delays and scarce meals, recounts a local feast at Calvin Stanley’s rear, and ends with praise for Stanley and friends.
A compact reading of Toledo Blade promotional copy and assorted notices. The piece extols the paper as a leading weekly with broad circulation, claiming education and family value, then pivots to weather notes from Dalles Mountaineer and Capital Journal and an Oregon Kidney Tea advertisement urging readers to buy.
A. A. Mead had a preliminary hearing in Hillsboro on Saturday charged with at least one wife beyond legal limits. Bonds set at 1000, unable to post, held at county expense until circuit court convenes. A garbled matrimony tale follows about Dr King of Adelaide and the tangled in laws of marriage.
A display of Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder earned top honors at a work fair with a highest medal and diploma awarded for excellence in product quality and craftsmanship.
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