Meading Notices and Advertising Rates Advertised
A historical notice announces Meading Notices to be inserted at ten cents per line and advertising bills collected monthly. The item lists billing policy and collection cadence for public notices.
11 Sep 1891
Page 1
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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1891
Page
1
A historical notice announces Meading Notices to be inserted at ten cents per line and advertising bills collected monthly. The item lists billing policy and collection cadence for public notices.
The notice records church service times for Presbyterian Friends Evangelical and Baptist churches, detailing Sunday worship hours to 11 a m 1 2 30 pm and 7 30 pm with Sabbath and Sabbath school sessions. It notes monthly and quarterly meetings on specified Saturdays and Sundays in February May August and November.
Devotional services held Sunday evenings inviting young men to attend. C C F sessions meet Saturday evenings above Moore’s rug store. W A T U holds a business meeting on the second Saturday monthly. AL Vt Bessions meet on the third Thursday evening monthly. W C T U holds a business meeting on the third Saturday afternoon each month.
The timetable lists the Southern Pacific route with departures at 7:00 PM and arrivals around 5:00 AM, covering connections to Salem Albany Roseburg Grants Pass Medford Ashland Sacramento San Francisco Mojave Los Angeles El Paso and New Orleans. It notes through tickets from 4th Street ticket office and through cars and second class accommodations.
News from the Pacific Coast reports Nevada’s hoped gold boom at Zirn mine Pine Nut and general mining energy, while drought bites southern New Mexico stock losses. Reports note rich mackerel off California and a large Skagit salmon run, plus mining claims near Spokane and in Vancouver and Victoria.
The article reports that Senator Squire of Washington says he would not accept the Chinese mission and dismisses a Seattle telegram claim. It also covers Treasury debt figures, immigration actions, bank authorizations, land cases, and U.S. policy orders affecting Oklahoma, Sac and Fox reserves, and Central American diplomacy.
The Cablegrams report a Brazil overthrow plot traced to Rio Grande do Sul with a number of prominent figures linked. A traveler party discovered the ten arsenal of conspirators, while Vienna police issue circular on ban of women trains. European officials discuss Nile water storage to expand agriculture.
Across the East, reports cite mortgage payoffs by Kansas farmers, a Philadelphia group resisting a racial term in its charter, planned New York apartment towers, and government projects from Galveston jetties to West Point admissions. Other items note Indian land openings in Oklahoma, park disaster relief totals, and naval desertion fears aboard Pensacola.
A Chinese comprador named Chin jong is named United States Deputy Marshal for Amoy. The marshal is Kr. Edward Bedloe, said to descend from the family after whom Fire Island was named in New York harbor. The note places the appointment in a broad roster of public figures and distant events.
Montreal official Thomas McCreevy located in Portland Missouri after fleeing arrest for boodling. Thomas J a Marveville California assistant postmaster convicted of embezzling 824 sentenced to one year in state prison and fined 824. Chris McNamara gambler killed Reese Fowler in Chattanooga Tennessee amid a dispute over a woman. A double murder found in Bloomfield Connecticut a German and wife in a well possibly killed by nearby Italian laborers. Two black prisoners in Raleigh North Carolina whipped for attempted jailyard overpowers. Monroe Michigan farm murder earlier in region with John Williamson and wife tortured and killed by tramps. neighbors intercepted, tramps shot by angry citizens.
The report notes a heavy caliber gas detonation at KvOletaadt artillery range smashing windows on a passing railway train. No injuries recorded. Other items include Bavaria's king worsening, population figures in France and Russia, and discussions on visas and reforms.
Wholesale activity remains strong with heavy receipts of vegetables and fruits. Prices vary from cheap peaches and plentiful butter to scarce eggs and rising lard, while wheat softens and local stocks grow.
An office boy confirms sending the obituary notice for a bereaved widow to the Epoch editor. The brief exchange indicates the editor will receive the notice for publication.
A dialogue from Life contrasts a father and son over responsibility. Ben questions the act of a banana skin causing a man to fall, while the father reframes the idea to responsibility for the object rather than the giver, highlighting a comic moral tension.
In a blunt note the Youkers Statesman laments Michigan's dominance in shingles production, noting the state outsizes rivals and hints at broader costs to the economy and workers as observers weigh the industry’s impact.
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