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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1904
Page
4
Fragmentary text shows publication details for an East Oregonian edition with listing of publishing company, pricing by mail and carrier, and scattered references to portered services and locations. Names and dates are garbled, but hints at period newspaper structure remain.
A disjointed poetic snippet from a San Francisco poet named Reese appears, containing stray lines about love and celestial imagery. The text is garbled and hard to interpret, but evokes emotional and mythic themes without a clear narrative.
An East Gregonian correspondent questions U S government costs per capita versus New Zealand. He cites U S taxes of 197 per person and contrasts private profits from utilities with New Zealand’s public ownership profits of 10 42 per capita, noting New Zealand funds public improvements without high taxes, while U S costs rise with private corporate gains. The letter praises the East Oregonian for influencing the Rigby Clove factory and Pendleton.
Local leaders press to retain the Rigby‑Clove factory in Pendleton amid financial strain. They warn relocation to Portland or The Dalles would hurt employment and local industry, noting frequent orders and high local wages. Citizens urged to lobby railroads for better freight rates to deter transfer.
The passage discusses a rare faculty of navigational sense, or sense of place, enabling a person to know where they are in unfamiliar terrain. It notes that some lack this ability entirely while others possess it to varying degrees, with examples of individuals who lose their way or, conversely, those who can always find their camp.
A medical observer notes a drift toward Grecian ideals of physical prowess and beauty. He contrasts hollow chests and pigeon toes with Greeks style dress, praising improving figure and carriage in both men and women while questioning whether general intelligence will reach Athenean levels.
Correspondence from Cairo explains Egypt’s fertile Nile valley during abundant years. It details irrigation methods, ox and water buffalo powered pumps, earth jars on belts, and seasonal flooding shaping agricultural output and transport by camel and dhow.
A 1900s circular argues the Louisiana purchase could be repaid by 1 percent of national agricultural output. It notes land area of 875,025 square miles, population around 1.7 million in 1803, and compares mineral output, bank capital, and rail growth with the era. It also contrasts U S. area and population with the United Kingdom and other nations.
Judge Bel today sustained the city eight hour ordinance No 1114 in the suit George Giles v J C Broad sewer contractor The ordinance requires eight hours work per day for city employees at 25 cents per hour with overtime at one and one half The decision follows a prior Supreme Court ruling supporting the eight hour measure and holds for the city in the matter of extra hours worked by Geis han over 37 days at nine hours daily
A terse fragmentary poem by Mauriee Francis Bean laments pain and loss. It contrasts dark eyes with light, invokes Prometheus and mother and child, and questions the gain of man’s protest against Christ’s completion.
In Everybody's Magazine Aten a patriotic cover angers the city police chief who halts the sale of the issue citing the American tint of the cover. The incident is noted with a poem by Wo Lampun dedicated to Judge Ammons.
A vintage advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a treatment for stomach and digestion disorders. It claims it strengthens the body to resist disease, highlights testimonials from patients, urges sick men and women to consult by letter, and ends with recommendations for Pierce's Pellets.
An old advertisement touts City Brewery Botted Beer as the greatest summer drink. It claims healthful effects for vigor and youth, notes stability under shipping, and offers pots in quarts and pints with delivery by Houling works and resilience telephones 1771 and 1821.
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