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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1897
Page
2
Telegraphic mix reports Neal Dow Maine prohibitionist dies at 75. Kentucky water filter invention noted. Halonis Oregon horse Chehalis sets a two mile pace in a world record time. Railroads hire 100000 more workers than year ago amid rising business. Year ending July 30 total payments reach 141,200,551 with 1,747,761 rise over prior year. cumulative since 1865 2,148,156,005.
Splendid reports from Kansas describe crop results and mortgage payoffs. A county seat paper has stopped publishing market reports after populist readers mistook them for republican campaign documents.
The record quotes Senator Tillman calling Speaker Reed a baldheaded despot. The exchange echoes a prior Indiana candidate’s retort to a rival who joked about being barefoot on top of his head. The sharp quip recalls a testy political repartee from the era.
A historical note claims a corset helped a young woman in Eastern Oregon survive a shotgun accident. The garment allegedly withstood the force of buckshot fired from an accidentally discharged gun, preventing fatal injury.
A Providence man displayed a coal lump labeled Klondike nugget valued at 9000 dollars in a storefront window. The next morning the plate glass was broken and the nugget stolen, leaving the owner disappointed by the loss of his attention grabbing display.
Local item notes Mr. Green lost a $309 diamond in his wheat field last Saturday. The piece mocks Kanana men who lose fortunes, borrow from neighbors, and boast during market booms while wearing diamonds in the fields.
The Times notes that even in Amity some residents focus on others while neglecting their own concerns. It criticizes the paper for covering Newberg affairs instead of reporting its own business, as seen in its recent columns.
A New Costly Indiana Courier item mocks a Tulian ePolis business college advertising deal offering a one inch ad until January 1, 1408 for one dollar plus a weekly changing ten line reading notice and a per student recruiter bonus. The piece notes the scheme appears generous but dubious.
The article notes miners killed and wounded by armed lawmen at Lattimer Pennsylvania and questions the miners mixed American spelling, suggesting a broader critique of immigration governance. It argues the tragedy exposes flaws in immigration policy that Congress has debated amid calls for reforms and better assimilation.
The Globe Democrat notes rising immigration amid illiteracy concerns with 290 852 arrivals in the year ending June 30 and a surge from Austria Hungary Poland and Italy. It cites Lattimer tragedy and warns literacy gaps threaten assimilation as prosperity boosts remigration.
The Pennsylvania freighter dwarfs the Great Masters in capacity carrying about twenty thousand tons. It can haul 160000 bushels of wheat 100 tons of flour 400 boxes of bacon 8000 pounds of lard 1400 bales of cotton and 4000 quarters of beef. It also carries 800 to 1000 steerage passengers a crew of 150 and up to 1800 tons of coal with food for all. The ship could store the agricultural product of sixty New England towns or twenty Western counties.
Dr F Boag and Dr Farrand returned to Victoria after a year of fieldwork for the British Association and the American Museum of Natural History. They traced coastal and interior routes from the Columbia River to Behring Strait to test ties between coast Indians and Asiatic natives, aiming to map origins and ancestral relations.
Silas Comer’s son Will writes from Dawson City August 12 about gold fortunes on Eldorado and Bonanza creeks. He mentions a $553 gold nugget, wages of $15 daily, extensive provisions, and travel logistics via mail routes through Circle City and Dawson City, Yukon.
The firm announces readiness to contract for 20 carloada of prunes in three grades at the highest market price with payment on delivery at Newberg. Interested parties should contact E. C. Wann & Co for particulars.
A notice offers a good house and four acres on Wynooski street for sale or lease. Interested parties should call at the post office or meet The Homts at Morris & Miles store, and Gord Worden will meet any of the boats for details.
Call and examine the new stock of goods at Iodson Bros before selecting reading matter for your writer. The Graphic and the Oregonian offered at 2.00.
A collage of testimonials and quips tout De Witt’s Little Early Risers and Witch Hazel Salve for constipation piles and skin trouble. Other items mock courtship alimony, Klondike lore, and a toothbrush of humor about family life and one minute cough care.
The ad copy touts Wilbur’s Blood Purifier for skin diseases such as ring worm eczema and scrofula with a price of 1.00 per bottle sold by druggists. An accompanying Wilbur’s Cough Cure claims to cure bronchitis and throat troubles at 50 cents with druggists selling both.
The steamer Grey Eagle now runs daily between Dayton and Portland. It leaves Dayton on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at 7 a.m. and departs Portland on Wednesdays Fridays and Sundays at 7 a.m.
Classified notice seeking reliable, active men or women to travel for a responsible, established home in Oregon. Monthly pay and expenses provided. Refer to Reference Reerlesp. self addressed stamped envelope required. Chicago department.
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