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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1904
Page
4
A fragmentary notice from Pendleton lists a free afternoon ser mon on Sunday. It mentions subscriptions and weekly rates, with scattered garbled text referencing dates, locations, and local offices. The readable items point to a local church or meeting place and a mailing address in Portland for subscription delivery.
A compact history of New Year dates from Romulus to the Gregorian reform. It traces shifts from March to January, Julius Caesar’s calendar, and Pope Gregory XIII’s adoption, noting England’s 1752 switch and public reminders along a Sierra railroad cliff reading Behold, come quickly.
A dramatic passage recalls the Trioklois Theater disaster and its swift, tragic shift from safety to catastrophe. It contrasts confident safety measures with a sudden blaze that vanquished joy, underscoring the fragility of life and the reminder that even modern venues cannot guarantee absolute safety. An agricultural note reports a Corvallis dairy cow yielding high milk and butter value, illustrating farm profits from well managed dairies.
The Corvallis Times condemns the anti gambling bill’s victory in Salem after a special session. It calls professional gamblers the vilest class and demands swift punishment for the servant who aided the bill. It urges enactment by initiative and praises citizen power over corruption.
During a December week London auctioned o ostrich feathers valued near one million pounds. London serves as a world market for dispersing ostrich plumes. Dealers travel from across the globe to buy. Six sales are held each year disposing of these plumes. Most feathers are brownish drab, with white specimens rare and highly valued.
Willum Bordel notes a Norwegian state loan bank started Oct 1, 103 to aid workingmen. It finances land and homes via mortgages with set limits on land size value and house costs, using local committees to assess and manage loans. Loans capped at 15 percent of land value, repayable over six to twelve years with staggered start.
The feather trade uses old furniture crates as receptacles for plucked birds feathers packed for shipment to London. In feather yards these are sorted by experts into bundles and sold. annual values reach substantial sums with buyers in the United States, France, England, and beyond.
A humorous monologue about longing for a sultanate with many wives to manage tasks. The speaker imagines a life of servants and duties and ponders how long such a large harem could be sustained. The piece pokes fun at domestic excess and the burdens of leadership.
Poem fragment by Robert Trowbridge from Scribner's reflects a landowner’s lament over abundance and peace. The speaker contrasts vast fertile fields and wealth with a small plot labeled Content, implying true satisfaction lies beyond acres of surplus. A meditation on desire, peace, and contentment in agrarian life.
Public concern over rising use of postage stamps for small remittances, causing department losses from improper sales and extra labor for post offices. Observes stamp trafficking and potential robberies at stations. Proposes simple, effective reforms to curb the abuse.
The message advocates a simple remittance method to compel merchants to accept postage and currency transfers. Payne promotes a trial of a new system for transmitting money, urging favorable consideration and noting it as experimental.
The Federation of Women's Choice of Seattle debated Saturday shopping for dry goods workers, aiming to endorse a position at a regular meeting in the New York building. Delegates argued it would aid clerks and sales workers, offset by potential hardships for families shopping on Saturdays during the week.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills for instant relief from itching burning and oozing skin conditions. It claims cures for babies and adults, outlines cleansing and soothing steps, and asserts many great cures of hereditary humours with a single set of remedies.
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