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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1898
Page
4
The author asserts that human thought drives both creation and destruction and calls thoughts “things.” It credits intuition for recognizing thoughts as real, while intellect explains their effects and notes that thinking power has expanded our reach to the heavens and supplied modern comforts and luxuries.
A survey of industrial shifts notes 85 percent of U S silk goods from domestic factories and mass machinery replacing hand work. unions face cuts in benefits while English machine builders equip Indian mills. new mills open in Glasgow area and a Chinese wool mill may adopt American gear.
Two reader letters extol Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women's ailments. Lizzie Deverty of Lowell says the medicine and Sanative Wash healed severe womb ulceration after doctors failed, saving her life. Amos Taompteau of Ellenburgh Center recounts recovery from postpartum illness and womb prolapse after using the remedy, regaining health and ability to work.
The article details extensive mining activity on Douglas Island Alaska with the Treadwell complex 850 stamps across multiple mills and plans to yield 2 600 tons daily. It notes ore in sight at the Treadwell and Ready Bullion and documents operations by Ebner Alaska-Janeau Berners bay Ophir Northern Belle Bald Eagle Seward Jualin and others along with new developments and mills in progress. It also cites the Cut Timber on Public Lands provisions and penalties for violations including fines and imprisonment.
Secretary North of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers releases the 1808 wool clip estimate in its November bulletin. Total washed or canwashed wool totals 206,720,684 pounds with significant regional yields including Oregon California Montana Texas and New Mexico. Scoured wool amounts to 111,661,551 pounds and the six New England states contribute about 1,745,025 pounds.
In Skagway poor old horses roam the streets exhausted from hard work and neglect. Citizens unite to raise funds and subscriptions to feed and care for the animals, with a petition already started to support relief efforts.
Threshing ends across the Inland Empire with the last machines out near Oakesdale and Farmington Washington. The crop is reported good everywhere. In Oregon, the Yamhill Locks project progresses with the in shore wall finished and outer wall under construction. Work continues fast to beat winter weather.
A year after opening in Anacortes Washington the Lomand clam cannery reports fading demand from jobbing houses. The last week of October yielded seventy cases of product for the plant.
New Whatcom city council opens a project to extend the water main by 8000 feet using a 24 inch wooden stave pipe. The extension aims to improve service to residents and businesses in the area.
New Mialog Town Growling notes Koller's expansion with a restaurant two lodging houses three general stores a table butcher and blacksmith shop. Forty cabins are under construction as mines nearby yield copper silver and lead. The currency controller declares a second 10 percent dividend for Ta koma National Bank creditors bringing total proved claims to about biadsea.
Rithet & Co reports in their November circular a notable upturn in grain freights over the past three weeks though San Francisco activity remains light. Most Beacon shipments are from Oregon with Washington expected next due to California drought reducing grain yield. overall demand remains moderate and freight rates have firmed without major changes.
An unlimited deposit of Fuller's earth was found on Poso Creek with a grinding and bolting mill now operating. Coast production aims to cut cloth mill costs. A major French steamship line, Chargeurs Reunis, plans monthly San Francisco to Liverpool service with multiple port stops.
A dense list of farm and grocery prices from Seattle featuring produce such as tomatoes cucumbers onions and potatoes, along with dairy eggs cheese poultry and meats. Also listed are feeds like wheat barley and flour priced per ton or per sack, with assorted regional notes and unit measures.
A compact price list shows Wheat at 60c per bushel in 569 60c, Butter at 45 500 and 40 450, Cheese varying by brand, Poultry prices per dozen or pound, Potatoes at 50 60c per enk, Beans and other vegetables priced per pound or box, Hops at 4 0c, Wool and Mohair values, Mutton and Beef rates, and Veal at 5c to 6c per pound, reflecting regional market rates.
The page lists prices for Wool Spring Nevada Oregon Eastern shipments and millstuffs plus butter eggs citrus. A street spectacle in New York spreads humor with Cyrano nose figures and Rubber Neck toy. Legal and personal anecdotes cover a Pittsburgh man suing over a beef bill and a German visit's official ambiguity.
From Paris and Parle reports, Spanish officials push for U S Filipino debt settlement and restraint on discussing Philippine sovereignty. The American peace commissioners face a pivoting position, with Spain demanding adherence to its protocol and offering arbitration on a third article.
General Leonard Wood orders General Ewers to move the regiments five miles from San Luis after a drunken clash. One regiment may be sent to an uninhabited island near Santiago harbor. Port Victor reports a large ship seen bottom up near San Salvador island. Guantanamo mayor Perez pushes disbandment of his former Cuban troops after a fatal self defense incident.
Colonel Ray reports U S government ship Glacier landed men at Port Cay del Toro and took two bronze cannons. Captain Norman admits the guns were taken for the secretary of the navy. A Guantanamo corporal and three town merchants are under arrest for aid to smugglers and missing supplies valued at $1000.
Paris reports M Las Borte, counsel for Colonel Picquart, may confer with him in prison at Cherche Midi. Cassation court hoped to order Dreyfus return from Devil's Island due to impractical cable exams and delays. Merrimac crew member honored at Des Moines banquet as crowd greets Osbourne W. Deignan. Archbishop Jos funeral in Baltimore noted with church leaders present. Wyoming wool clip weighs 14,000,000 pounds.
The passage asserts that drudgery is essential in all good work and precedes high effort. It argues that both great artists and beginners must endure tedious work, and a person unwilling to perform needed drudgery cannot reach the top of any field.
A millionaire credits hard work for success and later spends profits restoring health. Advertises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for stomach issues and claims of dyspepsia relief. Mentions Egyptian tomb pens and notes on catching cold with Bromo Quinine Tablets. Includes a joke about social censure for a husband.
A quirky notice describes the rise of "demonstrators" like girls in Atchison selling oatmeal pancake flour and giving dishwashing demos. It notes moving from town to town, with travel to San Francisco and lodging at the Brooklyn Hotel in Bush Street, rooms priced 50 cents to 1 dollar, meals two cents, and a free coach, signed by Chas. Montgomery.
An old man aboard a Brooklyn Fifth Avenue trolley exclaims a stark line as passengers glimpse a cemetery worker eating near a freshly dug grave while a girl plays nearby. The moment echoes death amid daily life and rumor of unusual news items follow.
The text argues that enduring great sorrow purges the dross from human nature and fits believers for divine inheritance. It contends that God tests with successive afflictions and floods of misfortune, and only those with the right stuff are helped rather than harmed.
The report surveys varied topics from Porto Rican patriotism and a marble book in Rome to Bangor manufacturers sending birch and canvas canoes abroad. It notes silver chloride composition, Spain's war impact, the German emperor as a fireman, Japan's cold spring, Nikko snow in May, a hypothetical Earth temperature, birds avoiding bright nests, and South Africa's 1897 bicycle imports.
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