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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1905
Page
5
A collage of fragmented notices from Pendleton style ads features various names and storefronts such as Roosevelt, Teutaoh, Roose, and Wolfe book store. It lists job offers, furnished rooms, sales, and services with scattered addresses, prices, and contact cues, including a call for adoptions and a few business notices from local merchants.
Congregational Church holds Sunday School at 9:40 a.m. with Superintendent Mss A. Lowell. Morning worship at 11 o'clock, sermon titled The Lord's Side. Member reception and preaching at West End chapel at 2:40 p.m. No PRCP meeting, revival ongoing at Tat. Services noted as continuing with weekly plan.
Woollby Booth No they eaged me off.
In police court Luther Martin and George Braddley each received three days in the city jail. An abolitionist quote about a gentleman follows, then official reports show 186000 miners on strike in Germany, double the 1888 figure. It also notes 20 of 21 federal grand jurors voted to indict Senator Mitchell.
A parade of visitors and residents in Pendleton today includes D Guy Earp of Walla Walla and Bruce Wallace of Athena on city business, Culley of Weston in Pendleton, J N A Gerking of Athena visiting Hotel Bick era, Stella Alexander returning from Portland, and County Commissioner Horace Walker arriving from Helix. Also present are Lee Teutech from Walla Walla on business, Ira R. Bamber of Umatilla Indian School, J C Chestnut and R L Wilson of Adams, Mrs Thomas Milarkey improving at Garden Street, F B Holbrook of the Irrigation scheme, E B Shaffer north of town, Victor M. Houston of Smith-Premier in Portland, J A Borle heading to Southern California, J W Morrow of Portland in Pendleton, A B McGowen of Athena fresh from St. Louis prize wheat, and Rev H L Pratt of United Evangelical returning to Portland after meetings.
The swordfish of tropical and subtropical waters is enormous, with lengths from twelve to fifteen feet and a three foot long, cone shaped blade. The blade is smooth on top and rough beneath, used to pierce copper sheathing and heavy armor on ships. Its long body folds back the tail to speed, and its diet consists of smaller fish killed by thrusts of the sword. Larger fish are harpooned. smaller prey are pierced.
The piece recalls David Dudley Field's terrible handwriting and unprintable manuscripts that baffled New York printers. Editors resorted to deciphering hours, with Field muttering that his writing was plain evil. Prices shift noted and a quoted line on solitude ends the fragment.
A New York City letter notes Peary Arctic Club President Morris K. Jesup urging fresh funds to finish a ship for Hubert M. Peary’s North Pole expedition. The club has about $55,000. $100,000 more is needed for completion and equipment. The piece also covers charity relief figures, Hearst’s mayoral bid speculation, gun tests at Sandy Hook, and local church notices.
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