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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1907
Page
4
The readable fragments describe weekly subscriptions and mall activity with scattered names and dates. Entities like Sally, Dy Mall, Seem, and Sem i Weebly appear in garbled form, suggesting a periodical notice or schedule.
Poetic fragment about seeking destined friends and aligned waters and stars. The speaker insists destiny guides the self, tides, and tides of perception, claiming time and space cannot sever the inner bond with what is truly one’s own.
Pendleton citizens urge a beautiful, shaded cemetery with pleasant walks. The city council favorably views an electric water pump proposal to improve Olney cemetery before spring. A $2000 bequest from Mrs. Sarah Figg Thompson awaits access, to be used by Pendleton Masonic Lodge and the city council for a coordinated year’s project.
The article urges the O R N to replace Pendleton’s old depot with a large well lit heated airy building. It highlights Pendleton as a key transfer point outside Portland and Spokane, noting growing depots along the line in Idaho and Oregon and calling for a park and trees.
The Business Men's Association of Pawtucket and Westerly Rhode Island has renewed a three year agreement to limit advertising to straight newspaper ads and drop all forms of special advertising such as telephone directories and city directories. The pact aims to standardize campaigns and reduce segmented ads across local media.
The piece argues Pendleton business leaders should halt theater programs and directories and instead spend all ad funds on newspapers. It cites Pendleton’s limited grocery and barber ads, notes newspapers support local families and growth, and criticizes locals for ignoring the paper’s reach. It contrasts New England practice with local neglect.
A Pendleton school board moves to reelect City Superintendent J B Sanders to run Pendleton public schools. Patrons praise his ability and fitness for the role as the district anticipates a busier year with many former students returning.
April 19 history notes multiple figures and events including Lords Jeffreys and Styron deaths, Lexington battle, Darwin death, White Star Teutonic record, Victorian Melita marriage, Kishinev pogrom, Curle killer incident. Summary blends dates, births, and notable occurrences across centuries.
A lyrical fragment describes rain turning to roses and clover blooming across hills and town. The speaker contrasts dreary skies with hopeful, buoyant imagery, celebrating rain as a blessing rather than a burden and urging cheer for the happy.
At a missionary conference in Des Moines Lown a presiding officer announced that Dr. Hines of Portland Oregon had been dead for several years. The audience accepted the explanation and moved on to the next program item as reported by the Denver News.
A fragmentary line from James Russell Lowell contemplates the moment of moral choice between truth and falsehood, describing the struggle as a division of paths toward light or darkness that lasts beyond earthly measures.
At Sandy Hook proving grounds a colossal cannon, twenty yards long and 13 tons, is in use with each shot costing 1500. Arlington Record notes Mrs. Gus Smythe as the first white child born in Spokane, Ave Smythe a resident of Arlington.
Mahogany trees grow scattered in forests and hidden by dense underbrush. A skilled woodsman climbs highest ground to spot the trees, followed by oxen, sawyers, and hewers who take a full day to fell a single tree. Spurs, scaffolds, and stump work are needed, with a finder earning up to $500 per month and possibly traveling weeks at a time.
Napoleon Broward born April 19 1957 in Florida rose from log camps farm work and fishing to wealth through careful business and steamer ventures. He entered politics late in the 1880s and became sheriff before serving in the legislature, then governor in 1900.
Readable text notes room rates of one dollar and one fifty per lock at a depot with an electric signal in the vicinity. The fragment hints at a lodging or boarding offering tied to the depot and a nearby electric system.
The Hotel Pendleton has been refitted and refurnished with telephone and fire alarm connections in all rooms. Baths on each floor and single rooms. Headquarters for traveling men. Sample rooms, free bus, special weekly or monthly rates, prompt dining room service. Bar and Hillard Kitchen in connection. Located only three blocks from depots.
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