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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
5
The issue notes Thursday publication, address details for the Graphic Building and offices, and a postal entry notice. It mentions August weddings to note and warns of a cold winter. It reports fine rain improving soil moisture and no injuries. Harvesting and thrashing of grain proceed in fine weather.
Since his return from Alaska the Graphic editor has been greeted with questions about being in England. The paper explains that Woodward, contributing England notes, is the editor’s son.
Anonymous letter to the Graphic urges city spending for better fire protection. The note, unsigned, is not published. The piece criticizes sugar price handling by large corporations and calls out refinery practices. Local Y M C A booster committee reports progress from chairman W L Osborn. The month sees financial canvass aims and an initial subscription of one hundred dollars.
A subscriber notes possible growth in the fund over months with a pledge of 30 and a plan to raise about one tenth of the Yamhill county auto license total for county work. John H. Rudd, interstate secretary for Oregon and Idaho, assists the organization committee. The piece also reports on the G. W. Byers family illness and death, local funeral plans, and a batch of local notices from Newberg including school opening dates, relocations, visits, and assorted community happenings.
G. H. Wilde and family traveled from Vancouver Washington to spend the first of the week with the W. E. Crozer family, sharing time together and hospitality.
The passage describes Chinese society as law abiding with collective responsibility. Family heads maintain order and cities hold inhabitants responsible for tranquillity. It notes shared punishment across families and cities for crimes such as patricide, including widespread disgrace and collective suffering.
Lord Rosebery notes Napoleon was a keen reader with a practical focus. He cites Napoleons demand for books at Brienne and his time as artillery lieutenant reading at Valence while in garrison.
In Film Fun gossip, a director is said to be blind after a scandal involving an overburdened star who wore excessive diamonds. Studio manager confirms rumors of misfortune linked to the production.
A Times correspondent notes gray herons once tied to Rotterdam’s elms and willows now retreat to the Zoological Gardens after city expansion. With four miles to feed, parents navigate tramways and smokey streets while young birds beg for food and wait for a passerby to guide them.
A narrator describes developing sensations that signal danger to blind travelers. He notes faint echoes sensed by the blind, an unseen pressure in the air, and how a tea tray held near a blind person would trigger a startled retreat. He predicts growth of this acute awareness and comments on street crossing habits.
The piece explains how European laundries stamp and mark linens differently. England uses red thread letters or figures, France stamps name and address with a design, Batavia uses numbered stamps, Germany attaches a hot water proof label, Bulgaria employs engraved stamps, and Russia uses arrow shaped threads. In Odessa marks are controlled by annual books. marks identify owners and help trace criminals and revolutionaries.
Reports describe Atalaya in Grand Canary as the giant burrow cave settlement whose inhabitants carve clay pots in terraces. The troglodytes, nearly naked in summer, live apart from islanders who view them as pariahs and liken them to wild animals with little morals.
A quip from an Exchange column lists superstitions about correspondence. It warns that blotting a letter, misdating, crossing mail, unsealed notes, upside down stamps or addresses, and burning long letters can bring misfortune, fights, financial error, or heartbreak.
A columnist from System explains a two step process for policy approval. First a manager presents a plan to another department head and gains endorsement or rejection. Then the plan goes to the president, with prior backing easing judgment and reducing impractical or conflicting proposals.
Portamouth built and launched famed warships for both British and American fleets. The M4 gunship Faulkland, the Hed, the America of 1740 era, and the early Continental Navy’s 32 gun Mayleigh marked its shipbuilding legacy. The Immortal Ranger carried John Paul Jones’s first flag in 1774, and later vessels like the Congress and Kearsarge achieved noted actions.
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