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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
4
A brief, antiquated verse notes that though freed or glorified, the departed still linger in memory. It speaks of enduring love and the ache of those left behind, with a vow that Thor cannot forget.
A Chicago editorial argues that heroism rests not in grand battles but in daily toil. It praises the sewer worker, ditch digger, and city garbage man for enduring hardship, low pay, and danger, asserting their steady service sustains civilization and surpasses martial glory.
A New York editor recalls obituary lines misquoted by a printer and other humorous slips. A man transformed by a love of letters into bitters, a dinner quip turning woman into sausage, a dancing master’s shank pledge, and a May 1869 patent medicine misprint The Infernal Remedy meant Internal Remedy show how a single letter altered meaning in old newspaper typography.
A compact ad proclaims a line of office essentials for efficiency. It promises adaptable items for editing and heavy bookkeeping, including typewriters inks pens papers and envelopes for commercial and personal correspondence.
A jumble of misprints shows a printer misreading lines about Tom Moore and an intended telegraph note. Ernest Renan reportedly debated a lecture topic in Westminster Abbey. The Blooming errors touch on religious and literary figures, crossing channels between England and the Continent.
The New York Tribune reports a Buenos Aires paper using a dramatic alert siren and a statue ceremony. A fine of 100 dollars per minute is charged if unpaid, with penalties doubling for nonpayment. The city imitates the event during major catastrophes, drawing crowds near the Avenida and Plaza Mayo as news spreads from San Francisco.
In a snowstorm crowd of boys caused a window pane to break. A neighbor woman dragged a police officer to inspect the damage. The officer, noting both parties were at fault, delivered a sharp rebuke about the careless behavior.
A quoted exchange questions how a four year public office tenure and a $4000 yearly salary can lead to retirement wealth of $100,000. The speaker expresses disgust at citizens prying into private finances and contemplates leaving the community. The Chicago Record-Herald frames the exchange as a critique of meddling and wage scrutiny.
A Roanoke News report notes a white minister preaching to a colored congregation in North Carolina. After the sermon an old colored deacon leads a prayer asking God to fix the preacher’s heart and tongue, bind him to truth, and place him in a solitary, morally strict valley to be prayerful and saved.
A compact note on Michael W. Balfe the Dublin born composer of the 1800s and his operatic works including The Bohemian Gil The Maid of Artois The Rose of Castle and Joan of Arc The piece recalls the song Then You’ll Remember Me from The Bohemian Girl and hints at its themes of memory love and deceit across eras.
A rustic poem portrays a farmer as a king over fields of corn hay and wheat. The speaker soothes gratitude to the Creator, praising autumn harvests and Sabbath prayers. The piece closes with praises and hymns of thanksgiving.
A traveler near Aberfoyle, Scotland, witnessed a boy crying beside a hedge. The man by the hedge claimed his father had struck him. A nearby tall man in a barn was identified as the father, the boy declaring his anger and vowing retaliation for future mistreatment by his grandfather.
A Geary Oklahoma paper reprints a troubling note from a mother authorizing corporal punishment for a pupil’s son, alongside a child’s humorous misunderstanding about a new baby and a milkman. It also reports a Decan shingle mill near Firndale Washington burned for a total loss of $10 000.
Begins its 26th year on September 26 1906 offering three full courses of study and higher courses including General and Special Methods plus School management for graded and ungraded schools. Longer terms higher wages and better opportunities await Norman graduates. Catalogues with full information sent on application correspondence invited address J A Butler registrar.
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