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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1906
Page
4
A brief notice from the Meme Scripps News Association records that the Pendleton post office acknowledges mail entered as second class matter under telephone contact. The item confirms mailing status and official handling.
A Pendleton observer praises the city’s strong business base and visitor impact. He notes vibrant department stores hotels druggists clothing and grocery shops underpinning lasting growth and a clear, inviting image for strangers. The piece urges local children to advertise Pendleton’s resources and keep them front and center.
The Oregon peniten tiary advertises preferring goods made in Oregon for two years inviting merchants and consumers to support local products. The piece urges patriotic purchases to expand demand, boost Oregon label visibility, and spur production, warning that reliance on imported items weakens state industry and calls for a statewide patriotic awakening and a strong home-pride watchword.
The Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou reports a deficit exceeding $1,000,000 in the postal system. The findings spotlight financial strain on operations and potential adjustments to services and funding.
A сыendregion column argues the Post Office deficit arises from cross-subsidizing other departments. It proposes each department bear its own mail costs, creating department postal funds and charging only essential mail to those funds to restore financial health. It likens the case to a merchant charging expenses to the appropriate department rather than a single advertising or general fund.
Secretary Hitchcock steadfastly defends a vast land fraud inquiry, noting 490 indictments, many convictions, and 401 cases pending. He leaves cabinet service without bitterness despite sustained slander, citing a record of thorough investigation and duty.
A heated dispute grows between English and American makers over the merit of idols used in African and Asian trade, with no missionary funds allocated to heathen manufacturing districts in either country. The East Oregonian notes Pendleton conditions on Webb Street rail realignment, urging city unity for a union depot serving KO RR and WCoR, and welcomes Pendleton Tribune’s support after years of slow progress.
Colonel E Hofer editor of the Salem Journal recounts a $2000 velvet night robe seen in a New York window. He mocks river and harbor tales and urges regional states to fund the River Heat Mountain Gem to stay on the Columbia, criticizing Oregon’s spendthrift portage programs.
The excerpt debates the location of Pendleton's federal building amid fuel shortages and regional strikes. It notes the Inland Empire face shortages and mentions Reed Smoot's dwindling, signaling broader national concerns about infrastructure and policy in a wartime or postwar era.
A fragment from Eugene Field recalls finding a shell far above the sea and hearing in it the ocean's song. The verse muses on how the shell’s distant origin echoes the speaker’s longing for home and the vast mysteries of the tide.
A London Times extract notes Wallasea Island on Essex coast once housed 200 villagers with farms and a school. Now near-empty, eight workers tend 800 acres. school repairs are funded as the education committee seeks to protect the derelict building, with 25 years left on the school debt.
William E. Curtis explains Oxford’s governance as a federal republic of 25 colleges under a central university. The Bodleian and other institutions, including the Taylor Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Clarendon Press, and Botanic Gardens, are overseen by the university corporation, The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of Oxford, with a life chancellor delegating to a vice chancellor who handles executive duties.
Frank McKeon aged 68 died after accidentally setting fire to his cab while intoxicated in his single residence at Pocatello. A Civil War veteran, his death was ruled an accidental fire tragedy with no other occupants or injuries reported.
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