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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1891
Page
2
A Portland edition notes tax debates over city salaries, welcomes Rural Northwest in Portland, and reports surpluses in Yamhill County. It criticizes debt, questions immigration bias toward Japan over China, and highlights Oregon farming yields and fruit sales as proof of regional vitality.
The Portland Oregonian reports no excuse for idle men in the city. Two or three thousand idle in Portland contradicts claims of easy local employment for strangers. The piece warns against portraying conditions falsely and notes migration and seasonal demand for workers strain city projects and public works. Local improvements continue, yet unemployment persists amid a housing and wage climate.
The Salem Journal alters the front name of Rev Minot J Savage to Minto and condemns army recruiting as corrupt. It cites a young Salem girl harmed by a recruiting gang and denounces the military as a blight on civilization while praising Pacific College Newberg and its Friends-backed origins and future prospects.
A man from West Chehalem brought a woman her daughter and another child to town with household goods and proposed filing an insanity affidavit to place her in an asylum while turning the children over to Judge Galloway as paupers. Judge Galloway questioned the plan and the man departed quickly with his cargo, leaving speculation of further developments.
A Woman's Column discusses strong temperance views by a Roman Catholic priest arguing alcohol is a deadly poison. The piece uses vivid images of the Mississippi’s dikes and the body’s veins to claim alcohol damages the organs and blood, causing ruin and death.
The speaker invokes divine punishment against alcohol, describing veins and arteries contracting to block its passage. He portrays alcohol as a consuming demon that weakens nerves and muscles, turning bodies into battlefields. He warns of horror at the folly of consuming intoxicants.
Grain is nearly all threshed with good yield. Irvin succeeds Plummer as clerk in Smock's store. Moreback builds a cottage on Second street. Many burn slashings. Portland Press Brick Co ships brick to Tacoma. Warner helps Tyson build a house. Hobson of Portland seen in town. Many citizens hop-picking in country. Five families moved last week. Cutter and Hobson of Oregon Iron and Steel Co. visited. Thomas remains sick but improving. Schlansaki heads to Salt Lake City. Shoe maker's family arrives from Massachusetts. Lee Sinovk takes Sherwood hotel.
An 19th century advertisement touts the California Positive and Negative Electric Cure for enturrh and numerous ailments. It claims to cure neuralgia rheumatoid pain headaches sprains burns and general pain and to be the sole non opiate cough syrup among 17 tested. Sold by C F Moore Co with notes on system building and stomach catarrh relief.
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