16 Oct 1891
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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1891
Page
1
Fragmentary text hints at a California trial and apricots. lacks clear names, places, or outcomes. With OCR garble, essential details are unreadable, preventing a coherent summary of events or entities.
Advertising rates listed for column space in the Newberg Graphic include twenty dollars for a column ten dollars for smaller placements. The fragment shows pricing details likely from a column rate card.
The parish listings show multiple churches with weekly and monthly schedules. Presbyterian holds services on the second and fourth Lords day at 1:00 and 7:30 PM with Sabbath school at 1:00 PM. Friends Church meets Sundays at 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM and Thursdays at 10:00 AM with Sabbath school at 1:00 PM. Evangelical Church offers regular services on the first and third Sundays at 9:30 AM and the second and fourth Sundays at 7:00 PM with Sunday school at 10:00 AM. Baptist Church conducts Sabbath services on the first and third Saturdays at 9:00 AM and the following Sundays at 11:00 AM, with Sabbath School at 9:00 AM.
Devotional services held Sundays. young women invited. Sessions in Moore's Drug Store rooms on Saturdays. Young Women’s Christian Temperance Union meets first and third Thursdays monthly. YWCA and WC. T. U. conduct business meetings on the third Saturday afternoon each month.
The article reports Vera Ava a California based spiritualist known as Madame Isabel, later identified by San Francisco police as a talkative yet erratic figure who left Los Angeles last June after a benevolent collection for her. It also covers military court actions over Alcatraz, the Walla Walla incident, and various Western state notes on trains, mines, and scientific exploration by William G Johnson in Wyoming.
Seattle reports discuss a meeting of superior judges to craft uniform rules, post office consolidations in Whatcom and New Whatcom, and dredging at South Bend. Yakima Indians consider farming on reservations, Spokane sees horse herds at work, and regional lumber and coal ventures advance in Tacoma Port Townsend and Kelso.
A report from the eastern item notes an electrocution incident deemed successful by authorities. Details on location, victim, and exact outcome are sparse in the brief.
A sweeping Oregon dispatch mixes violence and progress with topics from a Chinaman’s murder in John Day to wheat futures legality in Minnesota. It covers railroading, banking, real estate booms in Oklahoma, streetcar gaps in Minneapolis, Edison’s electric ears, and Pacific Northwest industry plans including slate mining, whisky production, and the Willamette Valley mill expansion.
A New York Mail and Express column recalls Jay Gould advocating simple food to withstand heavy business strain. He favors baked potatoes plain meat butter and milk, warns against sauces, and argues simplicity signals good living and reliable causes.
Rail timetable lists departures and arrivals for Portland and connections to Salem Albany Eugene Roseburg and Medford with notes on via Woodburn Mt Angel Silverton Coburg Corvallis McMinnville and other way stations. Dining cars are noted on the Ogden Route.
A New York Evening Sun reader recalls a fall scene on Sixth avenue where old man sellers offered cheap paper bound literature. One vendor shared the tale of a young, lame man who sold a book for fare to town after losing his job, hoping to build a cheap library while earning meals.
A brief exchange unfolds as an editor scolds a nonpoet who claims to rhyme while a stranger asserts he slings slang. The dialogue reads like a humorous gag from a New York Weekly style page.
The article notes a principal difficulty in adopting magazine rifles is preventing wasteful ammunition. It contrasts German and French soldiers firing rapidly with lighter bullets, warning that in excitement a soldier might exhaust his ammo box quickly. It cites cautionary maxims like wait till you see the whites of their eyes to avoid waste.
Two women on Trumbull avenue, new neighbors, avoid contact since moving in. A minor dispute between their children sparks a formal peace gesture. One woman accepts the olive branch with a cold, aristocratic response, leaving the other unaddressed. Detroit Free Press.
A Kansas City Journal commentary questions why crowds attend court readings of love letters and mock the sentiment in newspapers. It reflects on universal curiosity about romance and the tension between propriety and amusement in social gatherings.
A Kentucky newspaper recounts the origin of a drink popularized by a craftsman named Jerry Shingler. It claims the beverage was created about 60 years ago and named after Thomas Jefferson and the biblical Jeremiah, reflecting local lore rather than provable history.
A damaged verse entry from the Fourth Church Record laments marital strife and requests mercy if the speaker died. The speaker imagines death as a test of the husband’s love and pleads for kindness now rather than reproach after loss, questioning mean words and seeking reconciliation.
A Rochester Democrat note discusses curio shops in the West offering bison heads for 150 to 200 dollars, while New York vendors claim lower prices as old robes resist moths. Taxidermy skill is questioned with many heads being carved from wood and fur rather than real trophies, and rare-head requests often prompt delays or substitutions.
A courtroom exchange features Mr Bagwig pressing a witness on past difficulties and a supposed composition with creditors. The witness cynically notes the creditors faced trouble, not himself, amid a sharp quip in a financial dispute.
A London Tit Bits excerpt notes that France hosts about 49 000 mountebanks and related performers including learned pigs guitarists sea lions and somnambulists. It quotes a Hercules who lifts sixty pounds and would rather be a famed performer Ian than a Paris municipal council member.
A notice from a German university rector asks students not to make noise during prayers in a nearby beer garden. The piece contrasts German university culture with American colleges and notes beer gardens host literary and theological discussions.
Various animals from horses and cows to sheep goats and hogs eagerly consume apples. Elephants deer and many birds also enjoy them, with some animals taking time to get used to the fruit. Domestic and wild fowls are fond of apples as well.
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