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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1906
Page
4
The writer argues that since the exemption law was deemed unconstitutional, mixed property will be taxed heavily, hurting poor homeowners while allowing idle landowners and speculators to pay far less. They urge reassessing idle land at full value to distribute government burdens more fairly and reduce levies.
An Omaha or Toledo opinion piece lauds "Golden Rule" Jones for shaming graft in a federal Toledo postoffice project. It argues he taught that honesty with government mirrors honesty with others and credits this as a sign of growing public conscience and potential reform.
The text argues for public ownership of transportation and key intermediaries to end private control of trade. It contends trusts in wheat, tobacco, railways, and storage distort prices and profit, urging government ownership as the only durable relief and condemning commissions and investigations as inadequate.
Commissioner General Sargent reviews evidence of a Mormon church scheme to increase its population by violating immigration laws. The case centers on an 11 year old girl from Edinburgh aided by a Mormon elder, with missionaries allegedly seeking young women in Britain Germany and Scandinavia for promising wealth and good prospects in the United States.
Rural Spirit notes New York would allot about 20 100 million for farmers institutes with smaller but meaningful grants for Minnesota Wisconsin North Dakota Montana Oregon Washington and Idaho. The piece argues greater need in wealthier states warrants larger funding while other states also deserve more support.
Senator James A. Hemenway for a moment referred to Senator Heyburn as the gentleman from Idaho prompting laughter among veterans on the senate floor and in the galleries. A colleague whispered a nudge and he apologized to Senator Hepburn, prompting renewed gavel taps from the San Francisco Star.
The revived beauty parade lures both gods and men along Market Street between Kearny and Mason on Saturday afternoon. The west side of Van Ness between Eddy and California hosts the promenade with Titan blonde and dashing brunettes in summer styles. Spectators admire khaki suits, linen gowns, hats, and the latest fashions as Nat Goodwin eyes the scene.
A fragmentary verse piece lauds midsummer Aas and July heat, praising sunlit streets and summer pleasures. It references Cupid’s heat, bustling Nazing streets, and vivid imagery of fire, air, and longing as a speaker named John Kondrickh ang e voices fervent lines about warmth and ascent.
The fragment references wealthy individuals and figures, naming Chiu, Warren Fairbanks, Hearst, Taft, and others with large sums. It then shifts to a biography by Apache outlaw and chief and mentions Hubert Devine, an Idaho prospector, found dead in his cabin on Big Creek in the Thunder Mountain country.
A refined woman endures a painful ordeal when pressed by her family physician to answer intimate questions about her private illnesses, revealing the social pressures surrounding medical privacy.
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