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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1904
Page
4
The notice lists subscription options including annual, six month and weekly plans and mentions locations in Portland and San Francisco. It identifies the newspaper office addresses and contact methods, noting distribution via hotels and newsstands.
A San Francisco Star reflection praises Oregon as a great garden, noting the snow capped mountains, blue sky, and blooming landscapes as remnants of the Great Artist’s touch. The poemlike passage contemplates memory and beauty drifting over the land.
The government seeks bookkeepers, timekeepers, clerks, surgeons, nurses, civil and mining engineers, steam engineers, and laborers for Panama with salaries from 1200 to 300 per month and yearly totals up to 2800. Examinations in Cheyenne and Denver on January 10 and 14. strict discipline and sanitation required to endure the isthmus climate.
A reflective poem on weaving and fate by a loom keeper, fearing the finished web of life while insisting on staying at her station. The piece moves from skilled craft to existential worry about mortality and the arrival of others to judge her work.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe Panama and Havana as unfit living spots while Manila and Honolulu are praised as healthful models. Colon and Panama City are said to yield to the same treatment as these examples.
The New York World cites Mr. Dartholdt’s cost estimates from 1758 to 1740, noting $1.995 billion spent on war preparations and $460 million for militia, with peace-time taxes funding war. It warns debt and national burden loom, while blending local notes on a wedding craze and Baker City’s officials moves, and reports heavy holiday business in Pendleton.
A Native legend explains the transformation of the Pacific Northwest’s fertile river bottoms into an arid belt. The Great Spirit punishes the lazy bucks for refusing to cultivate lands, drying streams, destroying pasturage, and forcing women to carry babies on their backs as hardship spreads.
The former Crown Princess Laulae laments being barred from seeing and gifting her children at Christmas. She pleads for access as she quotes the bond between mother and child, while a statistician notes the era’s rising newspaper circulation totals.
An 13 000 000 000 copies figure illustrates the scale of global print runs. The estimate translates to 10466 square miles of paper if laid flat and would require centuries to physically accumulate if stacked. Reading time implications imply a vast portion of society dedicates years to perusing papers.
The Independent runs a translation note on a poem titled Royal Rhymsters tied to Japan and the czar era, with commentary about its meter and meaning. It includes a long quoted fragment about love, strength, and a fortress, and ends with a brief item about Patrick Morley of Tacoma, described as violently insane amid a criminal report.
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