Telephone News Brief from Portland Segment
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Portland and Oregon entities with scattered words about a telephone service or bureau. No clear event, date, or named individuals can be confirmed from the readable text.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1918
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Portland and Oregon entities with scattered words about a telephone service or bureau. No clear event, date, or named individuals can be confirmed from the readable text.
A partial OCR shows pricing for daily and semi weekly editions by mail and carrier. Rates include daily one year by mail five dollars, six months two dollars, three months one point one, daily by carrier seven fifty, six months three point seven five, three months one point nine, one month six cents. Semi weekly by mail one fifty per year, six months seven tenths, four months by mail incomplete.
The passage presents a distorted poetic monologue with garbled words and partial lines. It references a tense scene with a weapon, pain, and distress, though many terms are unreadable, yielding an obscured snapshot of a troubled voice.
The piece asserts that the fate of Europe hinges on American resolve and vision, noting Allied leaders acknowledge America bears growing responsibility for victory and lasting peace. It praises General Foch as supreme commander and says both Americans and British are eager to follow his orders.
The United States Steel Corporation earnings for the quarter ending June 30 reveal prewar and current profits. Net earnings available for dividends in 1913 averaged 17.44 million per year, while the latest quarter shows 127.64 million after charges, a gain of about 120 million, per the New York report.
York World discusses $120,000,000 in war profits accruing to corporations despite wage hikes and rising operating costs. It analyzes war tax calculations on excess profits, reveals large reserves against future tax revisions, and questions definitions of capital and profit. The piece also nods to contemporary quotes on Germany and the Kaiser, references a Baltimore sky cloud formation resembling the American flag, and notes pledges for war savings stamps and irrigation potential for postwar homesteads.
The Aug 1800 East Oregonian item notes Steck Inspector Gilliam with a guide meeting an alleged form and mentions T. B Searlyeen’s Portland departure for a week. The infant son of Dr and Mrs. Vincent, visiting at Toquing Bay, fell down stairs sustaining injuries. Dr. W. Dy Pletcher to lead the department of music and drawing next term. a man named Murphy to Perth for alleged whiskey act.
Fragmented OCR text with garbled names and nonsensical phrases about "Tac ticfrent" and "Taoka" alongside unclear references to stories, players, and events. Unable to identify a coherent event, but notes mention names like Alime G and general misreads from a sports or rumor column.
A garbled dialogue fragment recounts Maxwell Gannet as a figure pressed for practical tips and money. It hints at household hacks and petty scheming, including pantry and sewing ideas, with a crust of social banter about marriage consent. The piece reads as a fragment of a broader, unfinished dialogue.
A fragmented report notes a person named Jean Disnovers involved in a wound incident in Klamath Falls. Details are unclear due to OCR garble but indicate a serious injury and local reporting on the incident.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions names Witt Watters and Clarence Mitehsif with a camp tender at Tenn and a failing to appear at a night event, but details are incomplete and unreadable.
The New York press weighsGermanys ledger of credits and sacrifices since the war began. A German language paper cites Armenian massacres and the mobilization of millions of Nipplione. It notes Germanys youth sacrifice and the decline of commerce amid autocratic rule.
Fragmentary report notes a petition related to aiding American aviators through a gubernatorial channel, with references to Governor Thomas Rhea and avoidance of "drerkis" in manufacturing. The content is garbled and lacks coherent facts or clearly identifiable entities.
A London photograph purporting to show Alexander Avrunin Kerensky, premier of Russia, speaking with Arthur Henderson before exile, captures a frail appearance. Reports note wide disbelief among correspondents about the image and suggest Kerensky intended to travel to England then to the United States for aid.
Sweden continues a citywide war garden program in Gothenburg where about 6,000 plots totaling roughly 2,000 square feet have been leased from the city for the year. Rentals are 1 cent for the first 5,000 plots and 6 cents for later ones. The city provides some lectures and a model garden in a park to educate residents. Citizens must supply tools, but the municipal price controls cover potato and vegetable seed. The effort aims to boost home food production amid daylight advantages aiding after-work gardening.
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