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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1910
Page
5
The item notes Pendleton Oregon post office classification as second class mail matter and identifies Pelephone Official City and County Paper. The statement anchors the publication’s mailing status and its official regional designation.
The article urges residents to treat the house fly as a deadly foe and stop disease by sanitation and screening. It cites prevention steps from Suburban Life including covered garbage cans lime or kerosene, keeping premises clean, screening doors and windows, and screening food. It also lists fly kill methods using thichromate of potash or formaldehyde mixtures and notes Pendleton as a setting where such home measures are feasible and typhoid cases are fewer locally.
Senator Beveridge pushes for a tariff commission to regulate international and domestic commerce with expert independence. A western paper notes the need for scientific tariff policy and compares it to the Interstate Commerce Commission’s authority over railroad rates. The Indiana platform endorses the plank, while opposing regulars doubt it.
Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemens, a gentle humorist beloved worldwide, is dead at 75. He has joined his wife and daughter in the Great Beyond. Though he cannot claim rumors of his death are exaggerated, his work remains a lasting blessing to the nation as a benefactor who made men smile.
Opened roads would be maintained by the county in good condition. Indians, as principal users, would be the main beneficiaries of the project.
A florist and a market gardener from Erie Pennsylvania travel to Hermiston to locate on the Umatilla project joining others seeking reclaimed land. The city council will press the telephone company to cut rates or improve service in a push for better public utilities. Go to it, gentlemen.
A sharp cold snap sweeps across Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and southern Indiana. Forecasters warn of freezing temperatures and wind chills. Residents prepare with layered clothing and heaters as schools and travel face disruptions in several counties.
Fragmentary notes describe insurgents rough housing Uncle Joe while Ed is ready for the census enumerator. References to counting people and a dog catcher’s turmoil surface. A mention of Americans on the Styx welcoming Mark Twain appears.
In Mingland scientific circles a railroad engineer showed color discrimination failure in a rigid test but passed the exam again later. Debate grows over the method using colored yarns and whether color blindness may recur, with attention to danger avoidance and broader implications.
Garret P. Servis argues in the San Francisco Examiner that many people are color blind without realizing it. He cites examples of colored stars seen by some but not others, notes varied color defects from red to violet, and urges safer, colorless or automated warning systems in critical tasks like railroading, advocating electrical and statistical methods over human color perception.
During a chilly evening at Lake Ho Patcong in the New Jersey highlands Edwin Markham, author of The Man With the Hoe, shared that he sleeps outdoors on his cottage veranda during his six month stays. He notes that people are learning their lungs must be fed as well as their stomachs.
An old advertisement touts a medicine as the surest, best cure for weak stomachs and constipated bowels. It lists use for loss of appetite, gas, heartburn, belching, headaches, indigestion, dyspepsia, costiveness, malaria, fever, and ague. The copy reads as a broad health claim typical of early periodicals.
Close to Pendleton in Uma Tilla County 1640 acres fenced with good posts and water from a stream. 250 acres alfalfa land capable of cutting 760 tons this year. Features include concrete dam ditches buildings fruit trees and berries. Ideal for stock feeding and market. Railroad runs through the property. Priced at 44000 EB Wade office American Nat Bank Bld Pendleton Ore.
The passage extols sleeping outdoors night after night in all seasons. It cites natural bodily well being, freedom from insomnia, restorative vitality, and escape from life‑threatening conditions as key benefits, with a Wordsworth quote about small acts of kindness.
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