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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1904
Page
2
The establishment advertises perfect prescription work with extensive and costly drug stocks. It promises accurate compounding and safeguards to ensure every prescription is filled exactly as ordered by the doctor, emphasizing purity and skilled service.
M E Knowles of Montana elected president of the American Veterinary Association in St Louis. A vast union fund will aid packing house strikers. A forest fire in Germany scorches 19 square miles, mainly Prince Ernest’s lands. An automobile crash into the Chicago River injures four. all were saved. El Paso sends a strong delegation to Portland for the American Mining Congress. New York police form an association to fund families of slain officers. Russian cruiser Rurik crew members strip to hide ranks during capture. rescuees are naked. Christening of the battleship Conn?dent in New York looms as temperance advocates brace for a wine bottle breaking. Prentiss Ingraham, famed author, dies in Chicago. son of Joseph Ingraham, author of The Prince of the House of David, a former Confederate colonel.
Portland reports a man named R J McDarling under arrest for jewelry theft to supply his many sweethearts. Albany plans new linen mills next year due to rising flax acreage. Salem district prune crops ripening early amid dry warm weather as fruit drops. A threshing machine and 3000 bushels of wheat burned on Frank Huot’s farm near Eight Mile. The monitor Wyoming and a battleship ordered to attend the Astoria regatta on August 24 25 and 28. An unknown man’s body found in the Columbia River at Castle Rock. W E Curtis visits Portland for the American Mining Congress. A Tacoma restaurant protest leads to pepper in a union picker’s eyes and a damages suit. A legislative good roads committee is formed with several state lawmakers.
The city electric light plant faces a heavy demand and believes current lighting is 25 percent below capacity. If service expands, one fourth more lights would be installed immediately, with demand rising as service grows. Electricity is cheaper than steam up to about 5 horsepower, and a Bowman building light trial shows company lighting at about 150 dollars per month versus 250 dollars using an improvised plant.
Salt Lake City and Denver contest to host the next American Mining Congress in Portland on Tuesday August 23. Officials Gif ford Pinchot and F H Newell will speak for forestry and reclamation. Salt Lake offers Temple Square assembly hall for congress meetings, seating 2000, free of cost. Denver vows to mobilize Colorado delegates and funding to win the permanent location.
Plan a trip to the St. Louis Exposition and request railroad details, rates, routes, and local conditions. Address B. H. Trumbull, Commercial Agent, 142 Third Street, Portland, Oregon, for prompt information or to have details secured at no cost.
Sealed proposals to the office of architect T. F. Howard by 2 pm Saturday August 20 1904 for building a four room cottage for J A Blakley. Excavating and stone foundation to be under separate contract plans available at the architect's office. Right to reject all bids reserved. August 10 1904.
In Walla Walla on August 18 seventy five cents a bushel was paid for bluestem wheat. The price marks the season high in the county. About 40 000 bushels were traded yesterday across the area.
The article lists hotel guest names and hometowns in a long hospitality roster. Notable entries include L W Clapton and wife Portland, G W Harris Portland, F J Kolman Milwaukee, W Walium Oakland, M J Bleas New York, J L Lachman Kansas City, J T Welfe Walla Walla, J J Burns Portland, Edith Galbraith city, J W Tullock Oakland, Roy Salisbury Vinson, John Day, Frank Scranton city, and many others across Spokane Portland Seattle San Francisco and beyond.
The passage compares the magpie to the raven, noting shared mischief and a love of learning. It discusses humor, intellect, and observed movement as traits seen in both birds and humans, referencing Goldsmith and a nineteenth century author as shaping images of wit and speech. The excerpt also recalls superstition about talking birds and a cruel coin-milling myth.
A Washington Star anecdote describes Germany’s trap on professional rogues entering households via a servant character book kept by the mistress and stamped at police stations to curb forged references. A quip follows about Mr Sirius Barker never agreeing with anyone, and a Kansas City Journal cartoon caption notes goats in a corner likely butted since last week.
A short, fragmented dialogue from a Detroit Free Press snippet shows characters discussing whether to think before acting. The exchange hints at hesitation and later reflection, with references to names Tim Maud and a playful back-and-forth about planning before consequences.
A fragmented excerpt discusses kangaroos instinct to abandon offspring under danger and contrasts with maternal behavior. It includes references to a 1904 conclave, irrigation associations events, and a humorous line about people being like rear tenements, plus an advertisement for Halle Catarrh Cure.
Fragmented excerpt recounts Sheridan’s bold raid and Lee’s rationing reply. It notes Grant praising Sheridan’s timing and mutters about communication lines and captured supplies. Includes Hoar’s remark on Sheridan’s modesty and a discussion on handkerchief usage amid disease concerns.
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