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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1918
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows an address line for the Bureau at 909 Bedurity Bulla Washington DC and a listing for Bowman News Co Portland Oregon with a reference to a point office at Pondle Se Crtaen. No clear event or action is evident beyond contact details and location.
An old newspaper snippet lists subscription options with varying durations and delivery methods. Rates include daily and semi weekly options by mail carrier or mall, with figures like 2.91 and 0.78. The text shows garbled entries and mixed spellings, typical of OCR from historic pages.
A wartime style pledge echoes from a submerged poem praising seafaring heritage. The piece invokes Viking courage, the sea lanes, and national resilience, mentioning the starry flag and a greyhound clipper as symbols of renewed strength and return.
Government inspectors find Umatilla county farms save about 97 percent of grain with threshing. With a 4,000,000 bushel crop at current wheat prices, potential losses reach around $100,000. Some farmers approach near perfect recovery, while officials seek improvements to reduce waste and guard farmer profits. The comparison to mining suggests ongoing efficiency issues in agricultural processing.
A persistent inventor aims to maximize gold and silver recovery from quartz, seeking higher percentages as the key to increased profits. His drive mirrors a farmer's quest to improve threshing efficiency, with gains translating to more food for four boys serving in France.
A patriotic editorial argues the war is turning in favor of the Allies as American troops excel and Germany confronts a superior foe. It notes preparations for a large army, pledges victory, and urges full home effort for the fourth Liberty Loan while mocking rigid papers like “paper underwear.”
An East Oregonian item recalls Joe Mettoy once deputy sheriff of Urrmttin county who joined Braver and Walker in Walls Wally and won favor with friends who praised him. John Rants, now operating a Seattle looming house, is noted as a large real estate owner. Four sheets of plate gines arrived for the Jaden-Dickeon building, the largest single shipment for Pendleton yet. Joe Murphy plans political residence in the upper town after return. Fredesd, editor of the Weapon Leader, was in the city today.
With the friends of the convict's earlier fate, reports from Aug 14 describe social circles surrounding the incarcerated man. Details are fragmentary and require clarification, yet the item hints at public interest in the convict's associates.
The body of Old Bin Lan, a famous penitent prisoner once serving a four term sentence, was lowered into a grave at a state grounds burial plot. An undertaker helper and Chaplain T. O. led the ceremony as a solitary state burial proceeded with only one surviving relative responding to telegrams.
Frank Taylor reports from France on a Western boy who grew up hunting and trapping in woods. His unmatched stealth allows him to crawl unseen through barbed wire into No Man's Land and observe Heller positions, earning a chance to lead a lone raid if paired with a suitable comrade who can understand German chatter and gather intel.
Aug 14 Stamford. Sergeant Albert M Stone of Battery A 2th Field Artillery Camp Merritt NJ says a prisoner named Frank Smith of C Company 18th Infantry roughed him, escaped cuffs, and threw him from an express train near Stamford after a mid morning transfer from Camp Devens. Stone notified police and NY detectives.
United Press reports a satirical Los Angeles dispatch listing commandments for modern wives. The piece satirizes household roles and social expectations with numbered prohibitions on fidelity, home life, fashion, temper, and motherhood, attributed to Rev. PL Knilok.
A historical phrasing asserts a parent's protective role by proxy and vows to be a mother to their offspring, emphasizing care and guardianship over heirs.
In Bideup Kent a hospital dedicated to facial injury treatment houses wounded soldiers with severely disfigured faces. Doctors and nurses work tirelessly as some patients hide from relatives while recovering. Many hope to someday resume normal life and aid the war effort.
A notice explains a necessary precaution in canning vegetables and fruits and offers a free book of canning instructions from the National or Commission in Washington DC for two cents postage. The rest notes a bathing suit description in argot fabric with a bold strap and banding, and a peculiar cut pleated skirt.
July 28 report notes various odd wartime invention ideas. The piece mocks zealous patriotic schemes and details suggestions such as using magnets to pull weapons from enemies. It references inventors, critics, and a satirical view of public imagination during the war.
A highly garbled text extols violent punitive measures against enemies in a World War II setting. It mentions German forces, torpedoing factories, and burning land with boilers, urging actions like skinning “the gree” off and building a tunnel to Potedam to confront the Kaiser. The passage blends extreme imagery with instructions for wartime destruction.
Paraphrased wartime tactic describes spreading wire nets across a broad French sector to bait German forces. Forces retreat, lure the enemy into the trap, then roll up the note and flee, leaving Germans in place as they depart reference.
An old medical exhortation extols a herbal tonic for women, claiming forty years of use and steady improvement. It asserts widespread recognition and habit forming merit, praising Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female ailments.
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