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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1903
Page
4
A printed fragment reproduces Walt Whitman urging bold action with lines about shouting, scaling mountains, and diving seas in pursuit. The odd typography and stray punctuation hint at a mid page display or quotation block from a 1903 issue. The brief note frames Whitman as a bold, urgent voice.
Debate sweeps the Lewis and Clark Exposition on morality and public decency. A push to bar the Streets of Cairo and Persian Villages faces opposition from those fearing harm to the fair’s educational aims and economic value. The piece cites Puritan standards, public sentiment, and the need to prevent debauchery while highlighting Oregon politics and local issues.
Idaho Congressman Owens provoked anger by linking long work hours to dissipation and rascality during a debate on the eight hour day for underground miners. The remarks exposed underlying tensions in labor policy and corporate attitudes toward the short day movement.
Miss Bie venson and Miss Elliot, Radcliffe College graduates, run a scientific bakery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, claiming their Our Wealth bread is the only yeast-free variety verified by Washington DC chemists. They source a New York physician’s formula, employ two eight-hour shifts, and stress meticulous, hand-automatic mixing, controlled temperatures, and careful oven timing to produce wholesome bread. Their work links bread quality to health and mental well being, promoting a business built on quality over profit.
An anecdote from Will Carleton recounts a hotel stay where the proprietor refuses to bill him. After hearing Carleton's poems Betsy and Are Out and How Betsy and I Made Up the landlord tells how his wife and he were about to separate but were moved to reconciliation, and there will never be a bill for Carleton in that house. The tale appears in Carleton's new volume Songs of Two Centuries from Harper.
The Paris correspondent M. de Blowitz, famed as a bold journalist, died far from home near Plisen in Bohemia. A Hebrew by origin, he once taught languages in the south and served in the Franco Prussian War and during the Commune era.
An advertisement describes Winter Eezema or Kezema as a painful skin condition spreading in summer, with itching and bleeding sores on hands, feet and head. It blames acid poisons in the blood and touts S. S. S. as a blood purifier that cleanses the system and heals eruptions, offering a free book on skin diseases from The Swift Specific Co. of Atlanta, Ga.
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