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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1899
Page
4
A compiled humor piece warns against cheap alum baking powders for health reasons. It then recaps a Maori chief in Chicago finishing medical studies, a tale of cannibalism humor, and a story about using a famous name for financial gain. It also includes Vienna restaurant miscommunication, a door politeness anecdote, and light jokes about a car ride and Scottish donkeys.
After a forenoon session the presiding officer announced Elder IT. would present a paper titled The Devil. He urged prompt attendance as Brother H. had a carefully prepared and full paper on the subject. The Homiletic Review notes laughter followed the remark before the humor was understood.
Pleasant Prairie farmer Mr. Whitte found an abandoned frame house on his land lined with honey combs. He estimates hundreds of pounds of honey inside and plans to wait for zero weather before collecting it.
Clara Makemer housekeeper at Florence Crittenden Anchorage Mission Chicago writes from Chestnut Street Chicago praising Peruna as a tonic for general debility liver complaints and dyspepsia. She claims it helps female irregularities weak nerves and pelvic catarrh and notes health and beauty brochures are sent to women by Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio.
Cor Nelius Vanderbilt Jr arrives from Albany to pilot West Albany built locomotive 047 testing the Vanderbilt fire box. The device, removable for repairs, promises quicker service than current fire boxes which require up to ten days to extract. Also noted are advances in explosive compounds from two dozen to over 1 000 in thirty years.
Nature favors progress as the horse gives way to the automobile and candles to electricity. Mostetter's Stomach Bitters has sold for over fifty years, proving its value for stomach and liver troubles.
Old newspaper column notes catarrh as a constitutional disease with claims for Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. The ad promises a hundred dollar reward for cures and lists other products along with notes on Swiss publications and train equipment updates.
Germany sold 2 250 000 pounds of perfume abroad as part of a total export under 5 million. In 1898 Germany exported 2 250 000 dollars in perfume, up nearly 500 000 from 1897. Terre Haute votes to require city printing in a union office. Grand Rapids aldermen who backed the street railroad franchise were defeated by labor in the recent contest.
Denny and Nora discuss silk quality and washing. The text recalls ancient silk values, notes German steel production at 4 million tons in the first half of the year versus 8 million in 1898, mentions Berlin's tiny elephant, Tacoma cigarmakers earning 12 to 18 dollars weekly, and New York unskilled laborers paid two dollars a day.
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