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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1906
Page
4
Swami Vivekanand argues that living comes from performing present duties with strength and progress. He asserts that value lies in how duties are performed, not the duty’s rank, and cites a shoemaker’s skill over a talking professor as a measure of character.
Florence Finch Kelly reports from New Zealand on a government led approach to wealth distribution. Public trust offices and State life insurance have shaped economics for about 35 years, reducing private insurer power and keeping rates in check. The State office cut premiums 10 percent and private firms countered with 17 percent rate cuts, while reinsurance with Lloyds aided the shift. The public trust office remains a central feature of the system.
The article argues that the government extended its reach into property management, lending, banking, and coal mining to curb private interests. It cites a state loan office offering up to 154 and five percent interest, a profitable Bank of New Zealand, and state coal agencies lowering prices. It also recounts Russian expansion in Manchuria and Korea, timber and mining deals, and the Russo Japanese war as a clash over state enterprises and imperial investments. It portrays government policy as steering prices and markets against private cartels and foreign interests.
William E. Curth of the Chicago Record-Herald reports from St Petersburg on Ros en letters detailing the czar’s family financial stake in the Russo-Japanese conflict. He argues the royal finances and relatives favored war to protect personal fortunes, avoiding a tribunal over unequal terms and deepening imperial debt.
An advertisement promising a wide range of office essentials for efficient work. It highlights supplies for light or heavy bookkeeping, typewriters, inks, pens, papers, and envelopes for commercial or personal use.
The article recounts Sir Norman Lewhksdr’s view that Stonehenge originated as a primitive sacred observatory. It notes how summer solstice rays aligned with the central altar and explains the slow shift of Earth's axis causing the midsummer sun to move slightly each year. Approximate construction date given as 1650 B.C.
Ohio tightened saloon licenses from 350 to 1000 dollars causing about 20 percent drop by early six months. Nearly 10 600 saloons remain, with tax revenue reaching 95 million dollars versus 2.19 million under prior law. State gains on 1000 tax around 440 thousand, over 120 percent, funds split to general revenue, county poor farm, and police.
A playful verse depicts a mash seeking an onion bed and encountering a tuber who proclaims love. Puns on produce create a whimsical tale of romance and desire culminating in the tuber devouring the onion with his gaze, as reported by the Philadelphia Record.
A poem in which Georgia Wood Pangtheor portrays katydids as a defiant, triumphant force amid night mists. The speaker contrasts sorrow and resilience as tree-people urge life and joy, ending with a vivid trumpet and cymbal clash of nature’s praise.
New York Evening Post argues Russell Sage was a long time target of ridicule for avarice not virtue. It notes he never used wealth for public virtue and kept moneylending fame, while Washington business leaders visit Bend Oregon to discuss a beet factory project.
State Normal School at Monmouth opens its 25th year on September 26, 1906, offering three full courses of study with higher courses recognized in Washington and other states. The coming year adds general and special methods work and school management for graded and ungraded schools. Catalogues with full information will be sent on application. correspondence invited.
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