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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1890
Page
1
Presetterae Church conducts services each Sunday at 11 AM and 7 80 PM. Sabbath school is held every Sunday at 10 AM. Rev W A Winisey serves as pastor. Evangelical Church holds regular services on the first and third Sundays at 4 PM and the second and fourth Sundays at 7 PM. Sabbath school Sundays at 1 PM.
A long digest covers Idaho copper mines praised as fine, a Western Union copper wire line from Albuquerque to Barstow, footpad crime in Phoenix, port entry rules, large sheep herds in Nye County, a ship canal survey, fires at Stevensville, cattle buyers in Arizona, and Idaho Seven Devils mines second to Lake Superior. Also notes trials in Salem for arson, Portland's World Fair exhibit funding, Eureka and San Diego vessel trade, Willamette pier settlement, and assorted legal and transport items from across the region.
Disturbances in Southern France and flood relief urged as cholera wanes in Africa. Reports cover German vigilance on spies, Spain and Portugal tensions, British imports bans, currency and trade shifts, colonial conflicts, and notable criminal cases in Seattle and Chicago.
Market notes firm in many sections with light wheat trading in Portland Waerar trading and vegetable prices steady. Listings cover flour oats hay butter cheese eggs fruits and meats with cucumbers cabbage and potatoes plentiful and others scarce or moving out of market, including Tahiti oranges and Sicily lemons.
A Springfield teacher praised middle states residents as enterprising and go ahead people. A student, struggling to finish the line, finally added move on people, highlighting a vivid classroom moment reported by the Springfield Union.
A story recalls a bullet removed from Hiram Darnell of Jasper Georgia that traveled through his body over twenty six years after first entering his hand and cheek before lodging near the shoulder blade. The tale contrasts quick witted con men with claims of authenticity and value.
George H. Bates, former master of transportation for the Army of the Potomac, asserts he is the only man north of Mason and Dixon to obtain a relic from the famous tree at Lee surrender. He describes taking a piece of root and a carved ring during a late April 1865 encounter, with a signed document and subsequent loss of all tree fragments.
An English writer spent twelve years on a history of dead races. His dog ate the manuscript and he nearly died in despair. Six months later he learned most statements and deductions were wrong, and publication would have ruined him.
Bridgeport Cent reports a sensational case where Professor Poe drowns and revives a pet rabbit eleven times using artificial lungs. The experiment involves artificial respiration to force chest movement and oxygen exchange amid coal gas fumes.
A meditation on fate and faith contrasts sorrow with hope. The speaker urges acceptance of life’s rain and asserts that eternity holds love and bliss for those who feel faith. Poetic fragments reference time, mortality, and the onward course of life.
The London Standard notes that people reveal real character in many ways including photos handwriting and even how they wear boots. It warns that mistaken identity often arises from small overlooked differences in disposition despite facial likeness.
The Creek War tale explains how General Andrew Jackson earned the nickname Old Hickory. A shelter of hickory bark hid him during a cold, a drunken soldier kicked it away, Jackson emerged enraged, and the soldiers cheered Hello Old Hickory. The name stuck in memory.
The New York Tribune notes that stenographers are now common in business, with ordinary merchants using hotel typewriters for correspondence during travel. Letters may accumulate before a stenographer is hired, a shift seen across executive leaders and major corporations.
The military microphone now being tried in France records troop and horse movements. It uses a sounding plate buried along roads connected by wire to a receiver to indicate branch movements and approximate troop numbers, improving sound distinction for field use.
A New York Run account notes Ih Paris a wan performs in public by playing a clarinet through a throat cannula after tracheotomy. He removes the cannula at life’s end to prove there is no deception to the audience.
Expert riders in the New Orleans Times-Democrat argue there is no gendered horse as good mounts suit skilled riders regardless of sex. They contend certain horses suit specific riders but gender does not determine suitability.
Aristarchus of Samoe argued in 280 B C that the earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun. His contemporaries feared the stance so much that the philosopher nearly faced peril to his life.
English gambling devices are described as so bold that they now offer a chew of tobacco to anyone who slips a penny. The article notes inland cotton production ranges from 000 to 1,000,000 bales annually.
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