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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1910
Page
5
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The piece argues for direct senate elections and a tariff commission, noting shifts from standpatters toward reform. It cites President Taft, Senator Lodge, and Senator Aldrich backing commissions or popular election, predicting upcoming Senate amendments and long running changes despite resistance.
Pendleton joins eastern Oregon communities in intensified efforts to enforce liquor restrictions. Officials report broad actions across counties aimed at curbing illegal sales and tightening license controls in smaller towns, reflecting a regional push for stricter regulation.
Across Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and other cities voters push for reform to curb saloons and graft. The move toward commission government aims to place saloon control in official hands and reduce vice as recall fights and police challenges unfold.
A four man Ritzville jury hears a murder case with a defense arguing prenatal influences caused the crime. The writer suggests such influences may excuse but urges self control and hints at enforcing the hangings of Holland.
County residents advocate allocating idle water from streams to the Wand for moisture rather than letting excess flow unused to the sea. They argue ample seawater already exists and urge use of available inland flows.
The piece asks why the steep Wild Horse Hill road, a choke point for visitors driving into town, has not been improved for easier ascent and descent, highlighting local frustration with a difficult approach and return route.
Weather forecast confirms clear skies and sun for Pendleton this Christmas season. No widespread snow is expected, reducing chances of a white Christmas in the area.
Senator Lorimer appears acceptable to the Senate committee that investigated his case. The outcome casts the committee in a troubling light and suggests dereliction or political missteps in the inquiry.
A man in Portland struck a police officer with a hammer. If he had carried a saw, he might have attempted a different assault method, but the report focuses on the hammer incident and its immediate aftermath.
The fragment notes differing opinions between W. J. Furnish and Dr. Coe regarding their relationship. A curious line hints the burglary targets hare canned fruit, while a call to join a rush adds a community urgency to the scene.
Poem portrays poor children gazing at bright toy windows as life offers hope yet denies them. It laments Christmas inequalities and imagines a charitable Santa granting remembered gifts to the needy. The verse, attributed to Frank L. Stanton, contrasts glittering toys with overlooked poor children.
A humorous verse sketches a stubborn father described as an awful heavy handicap at the table. He ignores convention, gruff and rough, argues with peers and disrupts family plans. Wyandotte and Minorca readers share a sparing exchange about comfort and pins.
Across the painted desert and burning skies the poem depicts ghost mountains in Arizona. The traveler at sunrise views silver veils on cliffs, caves, and canyons where desolation and thirst haunt people and animals. The Nivajos are cited as saying only the dead may find reprise among bleaching bones.
A Chicago Record-Herald quip recalls a husband boasting he called on his wife every night for six months before marriage, claiming it saved him from writing love letters. The wife’s retort highlights the exchange as humorous banter about courtship habits.
In a brief note to Mr Cityman the inquiry is answered that wrinkles on a cow's horn are not caused by worry or distress. The explanation attributes the markings to natural horn development rather than emotion or concern.
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