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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1918
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR entry lists sale actions and hotel ads across Pendleton and surrounding cities. Mentions Portland and Wy Alig with catalog and mail options. Readable details are insufficient to determine precise events, dates, or entities.
William Hanley urges forming a new state east of the Cascade mountains to include eastern Oregon and Washington. He argues current boundaries misalign climate and industry, noting inland empire diversity with mining lumber wheat farming livestock and irrigated agriculture shaping regional interests.
The text outlines a plan to form several new commonwealths for resource uniformity and asserts the need to prevent the Kaiser from carving up the world, including the Western Hemisphere, though a new state east of the Cascades is not deemed as urgent as this broader aim.
Wartime dispatch weighs the impact of a possible separate peace between Russia and Germany on the Western Front. It notes Germany gains from the Russian armistice, mass transfers of troops east to west and to Italy, and the risk that Bolshevik Russia may resume fighting. The piece cautions against premature optimism about an Allied victory and questions Russian promises.
The German Society for Children's Therap eutics in Leipzig heard Prof. Schlesemann discuss child diseases and wartime effects. Births fell in districts like Düsseldorf from 100,000 in 1914 to 60,000 in 1916, with Rhine province also shrinking. Infants show favorable mortality due to imperial maternity grants and reduced overfeeding. rickets and eczema nearly disappeared. infectious diseases did not rise, though later childhood weight gains slowed.
The article notes concerns about hygiene and infectious disease in hospitals with calls for earlier medical aid. It cites factors like fat scarcity soap shortages and poor housing. It also reports Portland street car plans to hire women as conductors at wages around $8,603 weekly equivalent and praises Leon Cohen as thrift campaign chairman for the district, highlighting Pendleton's reputation for patriotic efforts.
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss opening French homes for American soldiers, referencing Paris and military aid. The garbled text mentions prices, preparations, and the broader aim of aiding troops, but details and names are unclear. The fragment preserves a wartime humanitarian tone without coherent specifics.
Fragmentary OCR passage describes sending comp proposals and contacting the French government to engage with the American ambassador. Mentions coordinating with French, American, and British lines, and reconciling Allied efforts across regions. Details are garbled and unreliable.
Mrs Chas T Fuller of Palmyra Michigan recounts severe dull and sharp pains in 1911. She credits Cardui with restoring strength and health after a month and reports no further episodes. She urges other women with female troubles to try Cardui.
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