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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1910
Page
5
Subscription rates listed for daily and weekly periods, with by mail and by carrier options. Mentions Oregon locations and offices including Portland and Pendleton, plus United Press Association membership. Notes postal handling and official city and county paper status.
Yesterday in Chicago and Philadelphia more than twenty firemen were killed performing their duties. Chief Horan and several commanding officers perished directing perilous attempts to control the blazes and save lives and property. The deaths are mourned as heroic sacrifices by those who gave their lives to protect others.
The Oregon Journal comments that senate investigation into Lorimer is a whitewash, while public opinion holds Lorimer’s election tainted by purchases. It cites Illinois lawmakers confessing to bribes and votes for Lorimer, arguing the records indict the Senate despite the committee report.
Professor Scudder leads a group of agricultural workers evaluating sites for a new eastern Oregon branch. They aim to double grass yield and improve farming practices, drawing on experiences from Kansas Colorado Oregon and Willamette Valley. Their work at Moro dry farming station could demonstrate practical methods to eastern Oregon settlers, while 20000 fruit trees ordered by Furnish project settlers signals progress amid court disputes. Science applied practically wins.
An old friend recalls Winters and the Fire that speaks of love in the past. The speaker laments youth fading, yet clings to a dream of earlier romance in the lane. The poem travels between memory and a hopeful, timeless affection.
In the House of Joy lines describe a holiday mood with cheerful singing and dancing. The verse notes the elderly and gray in the hall, bright lamps, and a fiddler, with golden hours racing by until a final good night. The piece evokes a nostalgic, festive atmosphere without a clear narrative.
A poetic fragment describes a cold hillside and a Christmas path. It mentions holly, a place where good people stay, and children loving to go the Christmas war. A distant caller and festive imagery evoke holiday sentiment and communal warmth.
Eight eastern Oregon counties lie nearer Pendleton than Union or Baker City and 22 daily passenger trains run in five directions through Pendleton. If the branch asylum is to be sumveniently Ineated there is only one place for it.
The remaining Oregon land fraud cases have been dismissed, lifting a burden and allowing a fresh start. The passage hints at restoring Oregon’s reputation and closing a chapter as the Christmas rush ends and the era of O R B N transitions away.
The National Civic Federation will discuss labor and relation to labor at its January meeting. Planes plan for replacing negro deckhands with white labor in Mississippi River packet jobs. Boston women study vocations for women via systematic research. New Jersey statistics show food prices up 40.96 percent in twelve years but wages up 22.2 percent, lagging cost of living. A 60,000 British shipyard workers strike threatens the Shipbuilders Federation. Panama Canal needs workers. advertisements seek day laborers. Uruguay advertises for American workers for a railway from Montevideo to Cuaraquim on the Brazilian frontier.
A tramp at a Folcroft house last week apologized for begging, saying he had real estate on his hands he cannot dispose of. The resident suggested washing up with soap and hot water as a joke and advised trying softer methods.
A transcontinental lecture led Artemus Ward to urge a full frog story by Clemens. It went to Carleton in New York but was published by Henry Cripp at the Saturday Press, November 18, 1864, igniting New York chatter and ultimately linking Twain’s name to the tale.
A playful tale from Tit-Bits recounts a mistress using a math lesson with a pound of plums. Mary brings a bag of plums after following quirky, humorous directions to pinch a few to prove the sum, ending with triumphant honesty and mischief.
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