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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1906
Page
4
The Fast Oregonian announces subscription rates for various terms by mail including daily, weekly, and monthly options. It lists outlets for sales and the Portland and Washington bureaus, plus a notice to advertisers about copy deadlines for the Past Oregonian.
An author laments global unease and misplaced blame, urging self reflection. The poem hints that while the world is golden and fair by divine design, most trouble arises from human folly and internal faults rather than external causes.
The Portland dispatch notes a 30 cent per ton wheat rate cut from the Inland Empire to Portland to offset Puget Sound ocean rates, but argues the real cause is the Portage Road opening up the upper Columbia traffic. The change lowers rates after portage construction, saving roughly 200 per 1,000,000 bushels shipped and shifting volumes inland to Portland.
An excerpt argues for sustaining the river highway as a 9 cent toll on inland empire trade, urging Oregon to strengthen the portage against railroad combinations. It laments justice bought for a silver dollar and warns that future rates may be raided by mutual lines, portraying money over law in twentieth century development.
An invitation to Commercial associations and citizens of Umatilla county to unite with Pendleton to attract tourists and settlers. The plea highlights bringing homes, land, and jobs to Umatilla counties, urging support for small farmers and industries, and countering outmigration to Alberta. The plan calls for signs and loud speaking outreach over the next 50 days.
A reader argues the $25,000 reward for Frank Steunenberg’s murder may test justice by suggesting money can buy juries witnesses or even condemn the innocent. The piece reflects on whether money undermines standards of honesty and righteousness in Idaho or New Jersey and warns against corrupting influence of high rewards on courts and officials.
Somber verse traces the Evening gray pursuing Day as darkness swallows light. Amaryilla weeps beside the speaker while rain obscures the sea and a fountain’s waters murmur. The speaker longs for his pipe and whispers a final line to Arcady in a sad, musical cadence.
A village near New Bedford hosts a town hall dedication. An aged man witnesses the pledge wave and recalls a sailor who joined the temperance society but left after discovering the pledge’s social penalties. The sailor is blackballed after attempting to withdraw.
A great walnut tree at Luther Burbank's Santa Rosa residence was cut to allow others to grow. The hybrid tree produced valuable wood and nuts with a mahogany hue when polished. Burbank contemplates offers from a local firm to cut and sell souvenir pieces, though he has not yet decided due to his busy schedule. The tree's rapid growth potential could make this variety a commercial giant.
A Country Life In America critique notes mushy rice on American tables due to overpolishing. It contrasts inferior domestic rice with high quality Louisiana and Texas grain, arguing polishing removes the nutritious husk, yielding shiny yet bland kernels that cook into mush. The public can avoid this by insisting on unpolished rice from grocers.
In one day recently a 64 car freight train arrived in Lewiston carrying coal wood machinery clothing and groceries. The load reflects varied local needs as a significant shipment arrives.
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