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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1918
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows various subscription terms including daily and semi weekly options. Mentions one year by mail and by carrier, several three and seven month terms, and monthly rates. Details are incomplete but indicate price points around 3.58 to 96.00 with multiple delivery methods.
A lullaby in regional dialect soothing a child to sleep. The verses describe stars, dreams, and a sleepy mother figure, inviting rest as night settles. The fragmentary lines evoke a gentle, intimate maternal scene with musical cadence.
State Editorial Association delegates visited the Coos Bay country last week and praised its resources development culture and hospitality. They noted the area’s past ties to San Francisco over Portland and described the San Francisco influence in commerce social life and progressiveness. The report highlights how railroad access and steamship routes shaped regional ties and growth outlook.
An Oregon editorial praises Coos Bay traveling through sight seeing trips to Myrtle Point Coquille and Bandon. It extols Coos Bay as a young energetic region with large logging mills and cheese production. The piece notes rapid shipyard work at North Bend and cites local hospitality and scenery.
The article notes that sugar control should mirror the restraint shown in exporting 140,000,000 bushels of wheat in the closing crop year, where a surplus under 20,000,000 bushels remained, urging virtue in sugar policy.
A physician extols daily warm water with limestone phosphate to wash the liver and bowels, claiming it cleanses toxins without salivation, avoids calomel dangers, and leaves the body feeling fit, though notes no medical endorsement.
The article notes Allied sugar supplies strained as sources in central Europe Java Hawaii and the West Indies diminish. French sugar territory is overrun. mills damaged or seized. Submarine losses and battle costs shrink stores and labor, forcing rationing with England at 2 pounds per month France and Italy at 1 pound. America seeks equal sharing at the common table in defense.
The article argues German forces occupy French and Belgian soil while ships built at Coos Bay are moved to San Francisco for outfitting. It criticizes Oregon for failing to manage such work and questions Russia as a German asset amid shifting Allied positions.
Fragmentary line hints at urging a figure named Ivan to assert himself to curb looting. No clear event or date provided. Indicates a discussion or editorial tone about taking stronger action against theft. Names and full context are incomplete in the readable text.
Miss Jonnie Nelson sails to visit Heppner friends while Rose Campbell returns from the Sound after a trunk theft. a herd of 32 horses is tied up by Deputy Hailey on mortgage terms, averaging 22 dollars per head. The city jail holds a mixed detainee group including a drunk and disorderly man and a Chinese immigrant awaiting charges.
Announcement reports progress and transfers among five Umatilla county volunteers in aptcinl courses at the California institute of mechanics ar to be terminated soon. Burton passed all examinations and will transfer east to Georgia or Kentucky to command that source at an eastern esi. Carl Hicks Own Masel Bynd Nive also passed, consigned to an eastern camp with an overens regiment and commissions. George E. McLaren, formerly with Pemleton Meat Company, appointed from school to reserve officers training and later to Fort Riley or Vincennes training. Emery Worthington, former Alexander's Dept Store, achieved qualifications as a truck driver and transferred to the Quartermaster Dept at the Presidio with future assignment.
Reports from Washington dated August 11 say dispatches claim Tricky, who fled from Petrecrad, was seen at Kronstadt by Russian sailors. The sailors refused to obey Toesdaluey Teloniers and otherwise would rather fight German ships than cooperate.
A compilation of realty transfers includes WW Teels to Joma A Porter for 14000, Lot 16 in section 16 township 18 range 33, and various other parcels with names such as Grace J Strungler, Renee Mary Skinner, and Charles F Segeli. It also notes Porth and Mausoleum Co. transferring property in Portland for 1700 and references an Olney Abbey museum in Pendleton and an Eastern Oregon livestock note.
In a dramatic wartime report from Washington Australia seven sailors were saved from flames on a damaged Spanish vessel. Two U S Navy sailors, William King and Clarence Ready, braved heavy fire and burning fuel to reach the stranded crew aboard the Sorantes, rescuing them as flames engulfed the waters. The event highlights acts of bravery recognized by the Navy Department.
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