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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1904
Page
5
Publication data shows the Pendleton daily newspaper address and publishing company details. It lists subscription terms by mail or carrier, varying durations and rates, and notes affiliations with Scripps Newspapers and the San Francisco and Chicago bureaus.
A Wisconsin Bible conference speaker denounces selfishness in modern capitalism and calls for checks on corruption in Congress and public offices. He argues individualism fuels progress and condemns war spending as wasteful while praising invention by figures like Markham and Wilcox. The piece notes the Louisiana battleship's cost versus torpedo boat vulnerability.
The piece rails against limited federal help for interior towns and railways, arguing that many U.S. cities lack federal building support and must rent spaces. It condemns restrictions on Indigenous lands near Pendleton and Umatilla County, notes repeated trespass and law violations, and laments a push for electric rail lines in Eastern Oregon as a step toward private franchises wielding power over public needs.
A portrait of Japan’s Washington representative Takahira as a formidable, businesslike official. He is described as pugilistic in manner with a sharp jaw and pompous hair, speaking English adeptly when needed but slipping into broken English under pressure.
An article notes Country Life in America praising toads for controlling cutworms. An imported toad colony could be worth $20 per individual in value to a garden, as children earn a cent per cutworm destroyed. From May through August toads may destroy 2160 pests, saving $21.40 in hand labor. English gardeners reportedly pay up to $25 per 100 toads for colonization.
The Eugene Journal Republican writes that national committees send ready editorials to papers nationwide. They receive plenty weekly and find them useful for summer vacations, but prefer writing their own editorials at home, even if not as polished as party pieces.
In a recent Interview Lord Kelvin questions radium heat origins insisting energy must be supplied externally. He notes 90 calories per grain per hour observed by Gurle and 48 calories per grain per hour from Dewar Curie at liquid oxygen temperature could continue long term only with external energy input. Two killed in a tornado at a Stocktown picnic.
The San Francisco Examiner notes a sensational tale about A T Stewart, famed dry goods man, whose supposed body rests with his wife in a crypt at a Garden City cathedral. The real body allegedly burned by body snatchers, two guards monitor the crypt daily, while speculation about substitutes endures.
An editorial discusses the ethics of crediting cartoonists. It notes Homer Davenport’s controversial earlier work and questions whether artists should sign political cartoons. It argues that while editors and reporters act as amanuenses, cartoonists own and risk their signatures, potentially compromising perceived objectivity across party lines.
A deed dating April 15, 1870, for a congressional land grant to Paxon Atherton Milton La tham and William Norris calls for 10,000,050 dollars in settlement. Recorded previously in Multnomah Clackamas Marion Lincoln Lane Douglas Washington and Jackson, it now goes to Benton for perfect title across all counties. The report notes the long delay to Corvallis with no explanation. Captain Christobal Salvatore, in the Philippines constabulary, shot himself at the St Louis fair.
An advertisement claims Peruna heals female troubles by curing catarrh in any organ. It cites Mrs Strickner describing headaches back pain and dizziness improved after two months of Peruna, and urges readers to write Dr Hartman of Columbus Ohio for free advice. The notice emphasizes recognizing female catarrh as underlying cause and promotes the Hartman Sanitarium.
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