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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1907
Page
4
A quotation laments widespread corruption in literature and life, accusing authors publishers and reviewers of collusion to chase money. The piece condemns readers for preferring cheap sensational material over quality works. It reflects a 19th or early 20th century cultural critique on literary standards.
Pendleton property holders face a future of aging leaders and rising city wealth. The argument urges residents to fund and enjoy enhancements today—streets, a city hall, water works, sewers, and a secure levee—rather than deferment for a distant generation. By investing now, future property value gains will still occur.
A stark look at how modern business life drains vitality. The piece asserts many active men face shorter lifespans due to heavy workloads, fierce competition, and nonstop drive for wealth. It contrasts a shrinking healthy, virile middle with a broad sufferer class overwhelmed by nerves and fatigue.
An editorial urges farmers to view land as misjudged and capable with proper irrigation or dry farming. It compares idle, harsh land to an incorrigible boy, calling for a system of practical measures to reveal its true value and promises Colorado will reclaim idle land.
The passage compares Colorado and Oregon in land reclamation, noting Colorado's apparent mastery of converting barren land into habitable tracts. It mentions climate, transportation, and markets as key for development and suggests raw land under water could be worth from 60 to 100 dollars per acre, with potential to reach 1000 dollars per acre under proper treatment.
Alfred Henry Lewis relays a tale about James J. Hill showing how a tiny flaw drains a business. Hill spots a hole in a water bucket while a train crosses a trestle and berates a watchman for failing to protect the track, underscoring vigilance and costly mistakes.
A county representative removed several deserted children from Amatola county to place them in homes across the state. Most were offspring of young girls who were married early and abandoned by unfit partners. The piece argues society must address who bears these burdens when state or county resources must support illegitimate offspring, urging fair action on marriage and child welfare.
An industrious estimate claims ten million dollars were spent by Americans on serious move music during winter. The article notes a vast rise in demand for high art works by Wagner Beethoven Schubert Schumann and Tchaikovsky. Public interest grows in operatic guides biographies and introductions to the art, reflecting a shift in cultural consumption.
The Sunday Oregonian sketches the origins of Oregon's initiative and referendum concept. W. S. U'Ren of Oregon City is praised for agitation that led to broad party endorsements and the large popular vote, while King of Baker and Malheur proposed the constitutional amendment first in 1895.
A Catholic Sentinel poem by James Neil laments a Magdalene’s death in a stark meditation on sin, bitterness, and mercy. It laments lost brightness and youth, urging compassion and silent charity as theMaster of men calls for renewal of the temple’s voice.
Trappers and eastern North America’s hunters crown the black fox as the region’s top beast. The piece notes the fox’s roaming range from the Tenobaent river valley to the St Lawrence, with Hudson Bay Fur Company involvement and annual skin counts. It cites Maktе plane’s 70,000 fox skins yearly, 5000 winter trappers, and only rare sightings of a true black fox. It also mentions Harry Mahar of Columbus Indiana reaching population center status in 1906 with 19,650,000 people counted in the United States.
An old advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as essential for overtaxed women and mothers. It cites testimonials from Mrs. Sadie Abbott and Mrs. Pree McKitrick, urges women to seek free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Mass, and asserts the remedy’s broad cures for female weakness and childbirth recovery.
The Hotel St. George offers a European plan with steam heat throughout and en suite rooms with bath. It boasts modern conveniences, a large new sample room, and rooms with telephone fire alarm connections ice and cold running water in every room.
Rooms advertised at one to one and a half dollars per period with a freon deport charge noted. Bulky boilerplate text references a ble electric ten and related charges.
The Hotel Pendleton has been refitted and refurnished throughout. It offers telephone and fire alarm connections with all rooms, en suite baths, and single rooms. It serves as a headquarters for traveling men, provides sample rooms, a free bus, and special weekly rates. Excellent cuisine and prompt dining, bar and billiard room in connection. Only three blocks from depots.
An historical item notes the Golden Rule Hotel as a first class family hotel and stock men's headquarters, highlighting its status as a premier lodging and focal point for business travelers in its era.
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