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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1918
Page
4
President outlines aim for a lasting postwar order to prevent autocratic domination and ensure global justice. He urges nations to unite for a rule of justice, acknowledging the difficulty but arguing progress is worth pursuing for those who sacrificed in the struggle.
A discussion notes features of injustice in relation to current freight schedules in the northwest and beyond. The inland empire shippers and consumers bear the burden of a situation inherited from the past, with rates affecting trade and costs nationwide.
A movement titled inland shippers league forms to push regulation based on true cost of service. It aims to protect inland producers and consumers from unfavorable freight conditions and seeks careful study before endorsing any stance. The league emphasizes not opposing or supporting railroads, but pursuing equitable pricing and regional benefits.
President Wilson in his first Paris address stresses that America seeks more than military victory. He highlights the nation’s broader aims and the desire to shape postwar world order through diplomacy and moral leadership.
A reader asks why outspoken suffragists in Washington receive decorations while quietly serving women in battle regions get no recognition. The letter argues for honoring those who labored without publicity for the nation and humanity.
Dr F M Edwards pitches Olive Tablets as a seventeen year remedy for women and others with pale faces dull eyes and general ill feeling. The ad claims tablets cleanse the system as a substitute for calomel and notes availability at druggists for 25 cents per box.
Readers are urged to pursue the usual Christmas shopping while embracing gifts that are both useful and artistically meaningful. The guidance emphasizes selecting presents that serve a practical function and also enhance cultural or aesthetic value.
Portland and other cities adopt Pendleton's policy to quarantine only the ill instead of restricting the healthy. Officials say targeted isolation aims to curb spread while reducing disruption to those without illness.
President Wilson stated the United States intends to help shape an arrangement that would remove the need for the world to be armed, expressing clear intent to prevent a prolonged arms race and promote disarmament. His remarks underscore a push for international collaboration to ease global weaponization and foster peace.
The garbled text references armor of a tank and joining the Red Cross with a button and receipt kept as a souvenir. It also mentions disallowing a stopover, overseas travel, and wartime troop movements, but the exact details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
The article reports wartime demobilization moves to send men to nearest demobilisation camps, with further notes on local incidents including an escape from hospital, a possible influenza outbreak causing fatalities, a pine trees destruction event near Hood River, a Norwest area labor and energy shortage, and rising prison costs. Readers receive terse regional updates from Salem to Walla Walla with names and places such as Christine, Agha Fothowin, and United Church in Portoul.
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