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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1913
Page
4
Pendleton hosts the eastern Oregon high school track and field meet this year creating a chance to showcase the city’s athletic stadium. The opening of the baseball season and a major upcoming event are expected to boost local enthusiasm and pride.
Pendleton plans a Saturday student meet at Round-up Park, highlighting city facilities and local attendance. The piece urges residents to support the event, promote the town, and welcome visiting students while noting governmental reforms and public service debates. It contrasts commission government with the old system and cites a legal ruling on land contracts involving the Southern Pacific.
The Buckaroos lost yesterday as Boise State edged them in a tight game. Boise secured the win for the team’s supporters with a strong late push and steady scoring.
A schoolboy named Tommy sits under a tree at noon while his classmates hurry home for lunch. He explains to the teacher that he must stay behind because he is the armistice in their game of war, preventing the others from continuing play until they return.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a chaotic scene at Paradise Court with a boy and Mrs Murphy, possibly involving a broom and a humorous London sketch. Readable elements indicate a street incident or performance piece with local characters and a comic tone.
A playful Kansan City Journal item wonders if a dish could escape with a spoon, noting dishes are inanimate but joking about a cup that cheers.
The exchange presents a doctor proposing an operation and a patient asking which operation the doctor is most proficient at. It captures a humorous, terse dialogue rooted in medical setting and suggests a darker or satirical edge without graphic detail.
A contributing era remedy claims Sage tea and Sulphur darken faded or gray hair and cure dandruff and itchy scalp. Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy is sold ready to use at about 60 cents a bottle and praised for natural, even color restoration without obvious darkening.
A Kansas City Star piece describes a sharply prejudiced encounter as a well-dressed professor greets Chinful with condescension. The professor questions his education while Chinful asserts college credentials and a Harvard background, highlighting cultural bias in a brief, pointed exchange.
A furniture remover jokes about his memory as a debt collector grills him. He admits he cannot recall where Mr. Sigflit took his family and belongings after the van ride. The dialogue suggests a recent disappearance and unpaid debts, with insistence that the driver was involved.
Hiram ingham Age Herald notes Mrs Gabber displays fluency in seven languages. She speaks almost simultaneously, showcasing remarkable linguistic talent and speed.
A humorous line from Stray Stories where the first doctor notes shrinking practice and the second jokes about getting out of patients, reflecting a comic take on medical trends.
The Town Topica quips that Jonsen receives the fuss while Jones’s wife gets the feathers in a playful exchange about attention and attire.
Professor Frank Johnson Goodnow, newly named legal adviser to the Chinese republic, sits with Chinese general Chinful Wang-Shin at Columbia. Wang-Shin, famed for Nanking's battle, speaks good English learned in Japan as the two study constitutional law.
A dialogue from Pearsons Weekly features a collector and a wary man recalling a past event. The collector offers half a sovereign to provoke memory, while the other concedes it won’t easily awaken remembrance, noting the memory is extraordinary and costly to soothe.
The New York Sun quotes a disruptive comment asking what flowers will be planted and deriding options as fatal to chickens in a puzzling exchange between Subbubs and a Maddened Commenter.
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