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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
3
Jobin J. Lewis argues Oregon lacks public control over water resources. He laments perpetual power-franchise grants, unrecorded rights, and widespread speculation with few accessible records. He warns that current laws enable false vested rights and costly blackmail, hindering irrigation development and investment.
Two large paintings and seven watercolors by Ibsen, created in his youth, were found in Nit-Da ia Sreien. The nine works were in the possession of a friend’s relative and tied to the dramatist’s early doodling. The discovery adds to the small private collection of Ibsen’s art.
The readable text lists scattered names and terms including Bunton Aneayer Chamin and M. Cyanide, with references to Apecimen privest Gold and Carbonera. Lacking coherent structure, the snippet suggests an OCR artifact rather than a complete news item.
Naggus, a literary editor, recalls spending an entire evening reading Borus's latest draft. The exchange hints at mixed reception and fatigue from the reader’s side, with Borus noting the positive surprise of the work while the editor remains blunt about its impact.
A city nephew recalls Aunt Latty with a sly aside about a bearded lady seen in a dime museum. He asserts she is the real thing, contrasting the fake.
The piece argues Oregon's water law system relies on injunctions, causing long disputes over ditches and water divisions. It notes 80 years of litigation on the Walla Walla River, 200 ditches, 5 000 acres irrigated, 25 lawyers, high costs, and ineffective decrees. It calls for administrative machinery to protect vested rights and store water, warning that without reform litigation will continue and capital will be discouraged.
A garbled and quotation filled snippet mentions nerves and navigation with a pervious fat girl in a Cleveland related context. The text appears as a stray or misread OCR fragment from a historical page.
In a dramatic moment the villain vows to follow to the end of the earth but the clever girl deceives him and avoids the trap, leaving the pursuer baffled as she turns away.
A bustling compilation of quips and cartoons from various papers echoes a town's social life. Jests about love, marriage, fashion, and public figures mix with witty cartoons and a bite of satirical commentary.
An advertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's family Pills. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured, asks readers to send for circulars, and notes Toledo as the origin. It targets druggests and includes testimonial-style guarantees.
While composing a symphonic poem with Father Bragdon present the baby cried from the nursery. He waited five minutes then called for the baby's mother and asked if Mr Harry teased the child. The reply was no as Ethel and he had only tried singing to sleep with the lullaby.
A Baltimore editor rebukes a reader who objected to calling a recent book a historical work on female suffrage. The exchange unfolds as the editor corrects the spelling and defends the review tone while a writer notes dramatic moments from a kitchen scene.
A Harper's Weekly vignette features a laundryman and customer over a lost shirt with a witty exchange about paying for cleaning. Side references lampoon teething syrup claims and a misquoted poem transformation, remarking on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s liberties.
The article explains that thinness stems from digestive derangement starting with a catarrhal stomach condition causing hyperacidity. Fermentation delays fat digestion, reducing fat formation. Peruna before meals speeds digestion and prevents fermentation, preserving pancreatic function and allowing fat intake to restore fullness.
The New York Sun notes light humor in admission slips from Gouverneur Hospital. A driver in a hansom was injured by “falling off a perch” and identified as Bird. Another slip cites “falling of water wacu” as the cause of injury.
A Philadelphia record recounts a remark by a young father praising a glowing plant as beneficial for families. He suggests using it to softly illuminate a baby's face at night so one can check the child without bright light.
The General Demand for a simple pleasant laxative is met by California Fig Syrup Co with Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna. The product is praised for known wholesome ingredients and gentle prompt action. Sold by leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
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