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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1904
Page
4
The text lists publication schedule and subscription prices for the East Oregonian Publishing Company in Pendleton Oregon. It notes daily afternoon edition except Sundays, plus various mail and carrier rates for weekly, semi weekly, and monthly subscriptions.
H. T. Wilson writes of a gifted rhymer who repairs things with verse. If born to rhyme he may live among garrelle counts and feel the music in every line. The piece notes the healer of breaks in tune with a steady heart for poetic craft.
Judge Parker’s preliminary speech to the nomination committee declares he will not seek re nomination under any condition and urges a presidency guided by integrity over popularity. The remarks frame Parker as a fearless, principled candidate likely to rally disaffected Democrats and deter factional pressures.
The piece discusses Oregon's irrigation initiative as a new era. It calls for a clear water distribution law to govern rights, notes federal employment figures, and hints at Western cattle market issues and price disparities between Oregon and the Dakotas impacting farmers and ranchers.
President W F Slocum of Colorado College lauds the World’s Fair as an educational force in a feature for Outlook. He notes exhibits show processes as well as results, fostering wide reading and practical understanding beyond superficial sight seeing. He cites rural South examples like dugouts and log houses illustrating life and labor.
A description of a future society where arts and sciences, valued by established communities, form integral parts of daily life. The passage emphasizes expanding culture and knowledge as central to social progress and individual development.
The document notes that in the fiscal year 1802, about 50,000 travelers arrived, with fewer than 50,000 farmers among them. It highlights that many came from Canada and Mexico and discusses border control challenges and immigration patterns involving farm laborers and non-farm occupations across the United States. It cites estimates of 11,692 born in Canada and 6,500 born in Mexico among immigrants, with implications for labor and war-related occupations.
The passage discusses tariff reform and abolition of the tariff system by reformers, income from customs taxes totaling 23.5 million dollars, and the shift toward dairy and agricultural aims. It mentions Japan opening to the West, historical views on animal domestication, and the government encouraging cultivation, natives, horses, and sheep. It also cites population and land figures in Japan.
The South ern Pacific imported new rails from Germany last year and laid them through the Sacramento canyon. Reports say the rails are very soft and inferior in quality. Outer rails on sharp curves show wear, risking wheel flange damage and future rail failure. In Douglas county, the school census notes an increase of eligible scholarship children by 124 over last year, totaling more than four hundred.
A quirky feather guessing contest organized by DML Manufacturing offered five hundred dollars in prizes for guessing the number of feathers on a hon. The event drew thousands of entries and varied estimates across many opinions. The final tally was 8 120, and the firm praised the contribution to poultry science.
The page notes that Filipino men, the lgorettes, eat dog as a traditional delicacy believed to boost fierceness in battle while women do not. It also mentions the Samal Muros avoiding meat, preferring beds to lie on, and Belug Mohamme dame refusing American cooked food. staples include hard bread, rice and chewing jobugio.
The item lists various historical figures in quirky marriage pairings, noting ages and spouses. Included are Supreme Court Justice Henry P. Brown and Mrs. Josephine Tyler, Bishop Henry C. Potter and Mrs. A C Clark, Senator Platt and Mrs. Lillian J Janeway, Chauncey Depew and May Palmer, among others.
A lyrical fragment describes August heat over a blue sea with gulls and a ships dream, the year’s great Sabbath drifting in air, followed by storm winds that rise and break, wrecks tossed on the rocky shore. Written by Sara A. Shafer in the Outlook.
An advertisement touts City Brewery Bottled Beer as the greatest summer drink that brings youth and vigor. It claims physicians recommend pure beer, notes it is made in Pendleton, ships without temperature changes, and is sold in quarts pints and half pints with delivery by phone numbers 1771 and 1881.
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