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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1917
Page
6
Classified pricing indicates monthly and halfyear options by mail and carrier, with specific rates listed in a compact newspaper notice. The garbled OCR preserves the structure of a rates table, showing variations for mail and carrier delivery and indicating different durations.
The food controller in England fixes a maximum price for English wheat at 60 shillings per 504 pounds about 1.73 dollars per bushel. This is lower than American prices, with Liverpool quotes near 2.60 dollars. The issue raises whether Britain can force prices on Canadian and colonial growers, affecting American wheat producers.
Governor Withycombe sent data to the legislature showing the penitentiary budget planned for an average population of 500, but now likely under 450 due to fewer commitments from the prohibition law. Savings are expected from hospital maintenance as well, with refunds returned to the treasury from last biennium unspent.
The text argues that releasing 54 men would save about $10,000 yearly in maintenance costs, as their potential earning power would total roughly $45,000 per year. It contends inmates are liabilities while free men are assets to society, and notes penitentiaries fail to reflect real improvements from dry law. Pendleton sees arrests drop two thirds in the first year, with similar trends expected elsewhere.
A financial writer cites the Federal Reserve Board estimate of $49 billion in war debts for the principal belligerents, about one sixth of their wealth before hostilities, rising by $100 million daily. The article notes accelerated taxation and money issuance, ignores losses, and warns against perpetual credit exhaustion while mocking war profiteering and wall street excess.
A garbled 1889 item notes Mire Mattie Ladow leaving Simdway for California to place her son Lowie in a school yet to be decided. Pendleton fire company officers are elected with A. Frazier as president and Jere Pelling as treasurer among others. A ship battleship will gain electric engines, but power sourcing is misdrawn.
The sermon centers on Peter’s three denials and return, using Mark sixteen seven and witnesses from scripture. It emphasizes staying close to Jesus to avoid backsliding, and frames Peter’s second chance as a present, not future, opportunity. The message urges readers to examine self before God and attend the evening service beginning at 7:56 with the choir.
A testimonial from W A Repents of Buffalo praises Dr. Pierce’s Invalida Hotel and Surgical Institute remedy for kidney and bladder disorders. The note claims improved sleep and reduced misery after using a box, endorsing the medicine for similar ailments.
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