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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
4
The notice outlines various subscription plans and durations including weekly and monthly options, by mail, with different term lengths and renewal terms. It also provides a publisher address and states mail is served from Pendleton Post Office as second class matter.
A compact verse by W. F. Barnard from Tomorrow urges steadfast, unshaken progress through life. It contemplates staying on a chosen path despite temptations, seeking merit and recognition, and passing calmly through life’s gates as a star that fell.
Judge Stephen A Lowell of this city, speaking at an Oregon Development League meeting in Portland, argued for a single Oregon with no dividing lines. He urged harmony and cooperation across communities, warning against Portland overshadowing the rest. The Host Oregon endorsed the idea, urging equal partnership and statewide unity. Oragon should be the watchword.
A notice extols Pendleton’s climate as ideal for treating certain diseases. It praises a small sanatorium built on modern plans with ample surrounding attractions, offering moderate costs and a contrast to busy hospitals. The text urges patients seeking inspiration and sunny, mild treatment to consider this facility.
A century old meditation on living well argues for sanitarium style care for the half sick and urges health education from childhood. It laments neglect of vital truths, lists ailments, and promotes the magazine Suggestion as a guide to reducing sickness, gloom, and life failures.
The Pendleton city council passed an ordinance prohibiting liquor sales to Indians and half breeds. Critics say fines of 45 to 60 dollars are too light, but the measure is praised as a long step forward. The circuit court case against the violator failed to convict, prompting city action.
A reader laments the withering jury system as habitual jurymen recur across terms. The piece questions a fixed list of jurors and notes about one third of yearly panels being repeat members. It argues the longtime vigilance ethos was preferable to the dull routine of recurring jurors.
The census reports more than six million women in U S industrial work with tripled numbers of stenographers and doubled bookkeepers and accountants over ten years. Women reach high roles in street railways finance and banking. The French Academy of Medicine will ban non physicians from X ray use amid a rash of deaths.
A mosaic of street musings on weather water power appearances and public behavior. The speaker notes slick sidewalks creditors and public nuisances while joking about railings and local characters like Knox and Mr Alexander amid reflections on irrigation and urban change.
A historical poem praising mothers as the bravest fighters fought not with guns but with steadfast endurance. It extols a woman’s silent, lifelong battles from childbear to old age, portraying motherhood as a noble, unseen war waged in the heart.
A brief verse, staged as a dialogue between the Lip and the Heart, depicting a wordless inner strife. The Lip urges the Tongue to speak while the Heart forbids speech, urging discernment that not all that can be spoken is worth saying and highlighting the value of inner silence.
The steamer America, sailing from Honolulu to San Francisco, carried 750000 dollars in coin sent by registered mail by loan bankers. A tax of one percent on all money deposited on December 4 may be levied beyond territorial jurisdiction. The article notes the money would be returned promptly after deducting shipment charges, saving about seven thousand dollars.
Charley T. Yerkes of Gordon and Chicago traction fame died recently and his nerve is discussed in Chicago amid a shaky financial climate. A group of bankers met at the Armour House to assess the situation after Moore Trathern failed, noting the danger from Yerkes’ paper in circulation.
A straw hat salute and gaudy ribbon accompany a bold demand to close the Stock Exchange as the largest straw hat collection at a funeral is paraded. The speaker threatens banks’ closure if markets remain open, prompting swift blowback from governors and echoes a tale about Thomas B Reed. Police later report on a murder confession linked to a marriage motive at Edison works in West Orange, New Jersey.
The ad touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discoveries for tired nervous sleeplessness and general vitality. It claims the preparation nourishes the body without alcohol harm and promotes even body function. Mentions other products and endorses medical authorities and price-free panel offers. It also promotes Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for constipation biliousness and headache.
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