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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1905
Page
4
The notice lists daily and weekly subscription rates by mall for various time spans. It also provides distribution points including B B Rich's News Stands, Portland hotels, and the San Francisco and Chicago bureaus with addresses. It notes advertising copy deadlines and and bureau addresses for the Pendleton Postoffice notice.
An opinion piece argues that moral questions reveal inner character and loyalty to principle over wealth. It condemns business men who hide behind expediency, praising those who sacrifice for integrity and stand for right, regardless of money.
The contract for the initial half mile of the Dalles Celilo government canal has been awarded, advancing the Inland Empire dream cherished for fifty years. The East Oregonian recalls childhood memories of sagebrush plains, roundups, and local meetings shaping the project’s significance.
A long lament on the open river pledge in political life, arguing that repeated promises to widen access to markets and unlock the Inland Empire remain unfulfilled due to political maneuvering. The piece credits pioneers and criticizes lawmakers for delaying progress, claiming the canal will honor those efforts and spur growth once finally completed.
An Irishman helped a man trapped in a rough wooden box at a union station in Ranga City Missouri. The box contained a man crying for help and a widow objected to disturbing a presumed corpse. The lid was opened with a hatchet revealing a stash of counterfeit liquor bottles for a Prohibition Kansas scheme.
Fragments recount women suffering and seeking treatment for female illnesses. Letters praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from backache spells and other symptoms, claiming it saved lives and restored health.
A historical poem fragment urges sailors to be steadfast and unafraid in life’s oceans and battles. It contrasts loud heroism with the value of smaller, obedient service, and ends with a note attributing the piece to Walter P. Neff of Kansas City Pel rgram.
Mrs. J A Hunter of Philadelphia urged her husband, an engineer at League Island navy yard, to take the civil service exam for a vacant bureau of highways chief position. Of six candidates, only Hunter paid and he was appointed at $4000 yearly on probation, surprising many including Mayor Weaver and Philadelphians. The wife’s faith in reform is lauded as bearing fruit.
An advertisement urges readers to buy inexpensive guaranteed watches that tell the precise time, warns of delays in engagement and unreliability of competing brands, and invites customers to visit to compare prices.
An unknown man was burned to death in the Grand View hotel at Nelson British Columbia. The building valued at five thousand dollars. Peter Bertalm, John M. Ordronky and Martin Chiparro were burned or injured by falling injuries.
Three Berlin businessmen strolled along Unter den Linden when one exclaimed That fool the kaiser. A police officer immediately arrested him for disrespect to majesty. The man and companions protested that he meant another Kaiser, but the officer stood firm insisting no other Kaiser is as foolish.
Ambassadors Choate tells a Jeg story where a Texas judge sentences a prisoner to hang but is interrupted by lawyers. The judge agrees to discharge him, suggesting the hanging must follow regular custom by others. The article notes the insane asylum's current enrollment sits within 40 of full capacity.
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