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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1908
Page
4
Public newspaper rate card for Dall and Weekly subscriptions in Pendleton Oregon listing prices by mail or carrier with per month quarter and year terms. Mentions offices in Oregon Washington DC and Bureau address and notes United Press Association membership and second class mail status.
Tourists flood to Umatilla as thousands press into the west seeking opportunity and cheap goods. The adishing verse urges visitors to avoid crowding, touts rich soil and sunny skies, and invites outsiders to stay and prosper under the favorable climate and abundant land. Bert Huffman promotes a welcoming, bustling westward movement with provocative humor about wealth and growth.
The East Oregonian urges the O R N company to buy a 160 acre wheat belt farm and set it under a farming expert to demonstrate practical modern methods. It argues that theory must become practice and offers public support for buying and running the experimental farm in collaboration with Mr. Miller.
Voters in Oregon express disappointment as politicians push to overturn recent reforms including the primary law and popular election of U S senators. The call goes out for complete surrender to the people and for incorruptible, progressive leadership to sustain the Republican Party, naming figures like Lowell Williams and Harvey Scott as examples of principled men.
The passage condemns allied elites for opposing a movement and delaying progress. It warns the ruling machine will collapse and praises those who support the people's rule, noting dismay at Oregon leaders blocking advancement and the perceived failure of capable men to let progress proceed.
Oregon commercial associations and cities from Eugene to Portland awaken to spring work. Boosting is framed as inspiring industrial progress, with new land reclamation, new industries, and rising wealth. The booster and poet unite in foretelling a prosperous unfolding of tomorrow.
The Fulton bill, introduced December 4, would require railroad companies to give ample notice before rate increases. It aims to allow shippers to protest unjust boosts and prepare for changes, countering long-standing railroad practices of rapid increases. Senate Interstate Commerce Committee declined to report. Senator Fulton expresses justified indignation.
A statement argues there is no political division in the prohibition movement and that all parties unite to improve moral standards, raise citizenship quality, and reduce the causes of crime and insanity.
Turning water into irrigating ditches will be the principal occupation of a large number of Umatilla county people for the next century.
A brief reflection urges patience as a speculative idea about a Pioneer Park is kept in mind until it becomes reality. The note underscores anticipation and perseverance without detailing concrete steps or dates.
A statement notes that some individuals face inherent disadvantages from birth. The remark emphasizes social inequity and calls attention to disparities rooted in birth circumstances without detailing a specific event or persons.
A two poem collage notes Ada Foster Murray on a Door of Bread expressing worship and service at a cathedral of earth with hungry souls fed, then Thomas Hood on gold’s power from Queen Elizabeth to Bloody Mary, reflecting money’s moral reach and social cost across ages.
A fragment from Loneyfellow depicts the sea waking at midnight and waves rolling ashore as a metaphor for inspirations felt beyond reason or control. The piece likens the sound to a cataract or a roar and suggests inner tides resembling the sea.
A lyric from the Baltimore Sun praising a hopeful view of life and nature. It speaks of a cold world yet a good world and urges laughter contentment and happiness with simple beauty in valleys hills and sunshine.
In Georgia a strange political mix emerges with a democratic county judge while the Republican piper funds the patronage. Republican officials seek Democratic favors amid harsh coverage from the Athinta Constitution Harney County News and a note on possible overproduction in good resolution factories risking panic among would-be well doers.
An advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters claiming to cure poor appetite headache flatulence dyspepsia indigestion colds grippe and kidney ills in a bold period voice. The copy emphasizes a broad tonic claim across multiple ailments typical of 19th century ads.
Julia Ditt Young forwards a Roosevelt poem to the Tribune advance sheets and notes publication in book form May 16. The poem depicts a bold kiss by Theodore Roosevelt, with the author appealing to readers to help publicize the verse, while Roosevelt avoids sensational publicity.
The piece argues T. T. Geer deserves a shot at Congress, outlining plans to defeat Ellis in the nomination or trigger a recall. It mentions potential political moves, a Capitol Journal job for Geer if he falters, and notes on the appeal of newspaper editing as a public position. It ends with a literary reference to Graustark’s newspaper owner character and grand adventures.
A quote from the Silem Journal urges Mr Geer to give up the idea of running a daily paper. It implies he has not yet run such a paper and warns that Job would be his last, most dangerous pursuit. The piece ends with a mock blessing to him to become editor instead.
A Washington dispatch reports California schoolchildren from Eureka and Humboldt county petition the federal government to establish a Redwood National Park. The children urge preservation of representative groves for current and future generations as part of the nation’s forests policy.
A Missouri trip during a recent financial packer yielded no clearing house certificates. A worker husked corn for a man, was paid in four coon skins, bought mittens and tobacco, and traded a coon skin for cash. The merchant noted it under the counter and gave him a skunk and two weasels as change. The Blow Mountain Eagle notes widespread apologies as residents feel uprooted by events.
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