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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1906
Page
6
A humorous ode extols East End Grocery in spoof verses praising a store famed for fair prices and cheerful service. It teases product names like Crescent brand coffee and talks of a welcoming, helpful shop known to readers across the country.
The article surveys reactions to Captain Van Schaick receiving a ten year sentence for neglecting fire drills aboard the General Slocum after the June 16 disaster. It cites editorials from Literary Digest and New York papers criticizing other owners, inspectors, and officials as more culpable while praising or condemning the verdict as a miscarriage of justice.
Bruno resident WH ll Stanley extols Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption claiming it cured his wife after five years of coughing and lung bleeding. He says twelve bottles completed the cure and cites trial bottles and a money back guarantee. Also mentions Dr Prinsing rebutting rising bachelor rates in Europe with noting decreasing marriage in Sweden France and Ireland.
A Chicago News summary notes an ancient Arab chronicle saying white people come from beyond the seas. Some Sudan natives fear water, while a wily Arab leader spreads cannibal rumors to keep influence. A French expedition once found a finger in a meat can, cited as confirmation of the tale, but belief waned over time.
The London Standard recounts varied wedding rites from around the world. In Malay tradition the bride endures extensive tooth filing before the ceremony yet joins in the wedding dance and festivities despite the pain.
A London clergyman notes that modern nursing has reduced visitor access to the sickroom. He says quiet rooms and nurse control shift visit authority away from friends toward nurses, sometimes giving nurses power to decide parish priest visits in illness.
A description outlines Chinese playing cards varying in size from half an inch to six times their width, printed mostly in black and featuring kings queens and various animals. The piece also notes mythic fire symbols on official cards. A separate anecdote recalls a clergyman’s children's service where a boy from England defines a steward as the man who brings you a basin during a catechism on the unjust steward.
In a passage from N C Fowler Jr, cordiality is praised as the cheapest yet most far reaching commodity. The author argues politeness opens social and business doors, uniting people and easing burdens to transform troubles into happiness.
A compact reflection on goodness. The text argues that doing good requires personal virtue and that even passive opposition to conflict can bless others. It quotes Sydney Smith on friendship and love as key happiness, and suggests personal acts shape life’s resilience.
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