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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1905
Page
4
Notice to advertisers states copy for Monday issue must be received by 5 45 p m the preceding Saturday. Deadline applies to all advertising matter submitted for publication by the East Oregonian.
A long critical tirade targets nation and local press for sensationally engaging in personal attacks. The author denounces Dowie and his Zion colony, mocks polygamy, urges families to camp outdoors, and critiques a Portland Oregonian crop report for misjudging Umatilla County wheat yields while traveling through Crontina and citing a high forecast.
Friends of law enforcement and improved morals across the county monitor the Pen ficton scene and wider Oregon. The piece argues that newspapers backing strict law will weather short business losses as intelligent merchants unite against vice and saloon influence, urging public support and boycott retaliation.
Colfax, Wash. Aug. 21 An attempt to murder RT Street Wy occurred as he went to a warehouse room. Street fought an unknown assailant with a hatchet and knife, suffering severe injuries. The assailant fled as a streetlight failed. Street later helped arrest four saloonkeepers for violating the Sunday closing law who paid fines. Street urged revoking saloon licenses at tomorrow’s city council meeting, tying the attempted murder to threats against enforcement.
A historical note tells of a Missouri youth who swindled peers with a bladeless knife swap and lemonade stands, accumulated capital, and formed a company with a million dollars, selling stock at par. The venture collapsed, revealing prior outsellings, and the man died leaving wealth behind where he once stood.
The article notes tantalum as a remarkable metal for electric components. It highlights extreme ductility and hardiness, citing a diamond drill that rotated 5060 times per minute for three days and nights, penetrating only a quarter through a sheet of tantalum one twenty-fifth inch thick, with the diamond worn. The report suggests tantalum could replace diamonds in drilling if supply increases.
Consul Bardel reports from Bamberg that Bavaria has set up agricultural schools in 41 towns to educate peasant farmers. Teachers cover bookkeeping, science, and practical farming, with winter courses and spring traveling lectures to spread improvements and form cooperative clubs.
Police report a strange case filed before Hyderabad magistrate. Locals claim clay falls from ceilings and trees shed coconuts as a fakir attempts exorcism. Villagers sleep for three days while valuables vanish, Lahore Tribune notes.
A. J. Waterhouse writes from San Francisco California about a card player's mood and fate at the gaming table. The verse counsels perseverance and playing the hand to the best of knowledge, noting that luck can change when the band plays.
Reportes From Cow Counties notes a man found dead on Prineville streets after misreading a thermometer as 95 degrees below zero. The Lakeview Examiner recalls a joke about Dick Wilcox, banker, hanging a thermometer to his cow barn and a cow giving ice cream the next day.
Fragmented obituary fragment references a figure Emin Tolman East and a broader discussion by Willam E. Curtis in the Memphis News-Scimitar. It notes Arizona's large tracts of arable land under irrigation, with high yield per acre and multiple crops per year, contingent on federal-funded reservoirs under the Newlands reclamation act.
London reports a new thorium mineral thorianite from Ceylon, containing about 70 percent thoria. Consignments of thorianite have sold in England at £1600 per ton, offering a potential alternative to North Carolina monazite sands for mantle manufacture. The ore yields thorium nitrate after nitric acid dissolution, with uranium and other elements in the soluble portion and insoluble residues containing silver, zirconia, and helium.
A poetic fragment from John Bennett printed in Memphis Newe Scimitar, urging living fully today as time flows away. The lines imagine sunshine, roses, and dreams, noting that love endures while worldly glory fades. A brief aside praises the golden rule as the best law.
An advertisement claims our watches tell precise time and relieve anxiety by offering guaranteed watches at low prices. It emphasizes punctuality for meetings and promotes several affordable timepieces.
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