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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1911
Page
12
Professor Allan Hoben of the University of Chicago argues in The Biblical World that village life may harm boys by exposing them to idle pursuits and harmful entertainments while offering stronger physical stimuli and harsher moral atmosphere. He says village churches overlook boys seeking little immediate financial support and notes broader savage imagery in war.
C A Johns of Baker may join the Oregon senatorial contest as election rumors swirl. Though undecided, Johns weighs candidacy with favorable conditions and broad state recognition from eastern Oregon voters. A longtime Republican figure, he previously sought the governorship nomination that helped Chamberlain win the post.
John Arbuckle, a New York Mile, seeks public input on how many cripples could use arms and hands to become self supporting. He plans a larger Home for Cripples on the Mary and John Arbuckle Farm in New Platts, with workshops and fields for year round work and earnings, aiming to employ and empower disabled residents.
In southwestern KansasSpringfield and Ulysses illustrate boom towns struck by rail lines and bonds. Springfield once thrived with a $10,000 schoolhouse waterworks and hotels but vanished after the railroad bypassed it. Ulysses moved to dodge past bonds, leaving creditors with prairie land. The region consolidates towns and builds roads to gain limited municipal facilities, stabilizing gradually.
New York City finacial leaders are accused by Hetty Green of basement theft and money madness. She says honesty is scarce, wholesale thievery is common, and the home life of the people is deteriorating.
A London article recalls the 1817 opening of Waterloo Bridge, then Strand bridge, with the 1816 name change and a cost of about a million. It notes Caneva’s praise and contrasts Waterloo bridge as a private company project versus a then government-built bridge in St James Park. It mentions suffrage remarks at the start and the broader context of women's roles.
Steeplejack J Hughes climbed forty feet to retrieve his watch from a flagpole atop the Yorkville court building after painting it days earlier. Court janitor John Rooney heard ticking and helped, debating how the timepiece remained aloft in windy ether.
Two young women Edith MacDonald and Ida Lackey spent six years traveling the United States selling the Bible Training School ten cent periodical. They raised about $14 000 in six years, giving proceeds to charity and funding missions. After Nashville training in 1905 they toured many states finishing in Utah then sent a missionary couple to India. They later continued fundraising in Southern California for further missionary work.
Denver grievance committee to investigate the trial of Gertrude Gibson Patterson for murder of her husband Charles A. Patterson. It will review the transcript of evidence given by Francis Jaston as the focal point of the probe.
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