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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1917
Page
6
Fragmentary text indicates an official notice involving a member of a united association and a monthly or weekly schedule. Details are unclear due to garbled OCR but suggests a one year term and multiple shorter periods. No names, places, or concrete actions are readable.
Poetic fragment from Michael Field describes vapor, rising and fading figures. Imagery includes amber wine, rose, port, and a soft breath as clouds and feathers move. The piece wanders through transience and love within a dull confinement, ending with thinning light.
Delegates in St Paul observe a small town with a big show and a bold woolen industry. The community showcases its vitality with a major outdoor event and generous parade costumes funded by local industry. The visit is marked by warm entertainment from a leading Northwest railroad magnate, signaling hope and growth.
The piece argues American steel makers profited from high prices for armor piercing shells during 1912 1914-15 while Hadfields of England offered cheaper bids. It asserts the quality of U S shells lagged and that keeping prices high endangered national defense, urging accountability from industry.
A critical editorial questions whether top financiers have become fearful or selfish due to wealth. It cites the New York World indictment of the steel trust and notes insurance and shipbuilding failures at war start. Government intervention propped war risk insurance and ship buying, while private builders delayed orders awaiting certainty of profits.
The text recalls Bastar State Hospital’s alias at Swift Station, mentions Sm Thompson and Bob Pietcher as champions, notes Umatilla County’s large share of Eastern Oregon, and cites upcoming tax collection around February 15. It lists legislators Roy Ritner Fred Bielwer Walter Pierce Afra Alexander Thompson as tentative congressional candidates.
28 Years Ago Today items report Fanny Harts' friends hosted a Friday surprise at her parents home. J. Rose Dickson and spouse returned from California on the morning train. Pilot Rock residents J. H Hemphill, J. Sharon, and Skeedaddle Smith are noted. Sharon is said to be in dangerous condition. A Pendleton county petition opposes further swine legislation and asks pigs be kept at large. Articles of Incorporation for Pendleton Savings Bank filed with J. H Ratey, DP Thompson, and Ty Ta McArthur as incorporators. capital stock set at 100000. O B R and S N rail service now lists thirty miles per hour as schedule time, with trains every two minutes in this region.
Charles Hackenschmidt known as Young Hack wrestles for a rematch with Ray McCarroll and now aims to face Frank McCarroll. He pledges to throw Frank twice within ninety minutes if a February 9 match can be set, after recently defeating Ray in a handicap bout. He writes from Bolte to the East Oregonian editor expressing eagerness for the contest.
Karl Leitknecht a German political leader was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for his role in the May antiwar demonstration. He is to serve his term under hard labor and will be barred from the bar upon his release.
Students learn the long hidden Clerical Creak is a real five cent pamphlet on commercial work found at the Commercial department. It contains notes on principal people in the archival and information about practical domestic science projects. Hope West returns home due to her father’s illness. Miinehe Purnish also injured in a recent accident but expected to return soon.
An advertisement-style excerpt warns mothers of sick children and touts "California Fig Syrup" as a cure. It claims the product cleanses the stomach and liver, relieves fevers and diar rhea, and restores health with a single dosage, urging readers to buy the genuine California Fig Syrup brand from druggists for a 60 cent bottle.
New York news item reports Mira Sunes Brooke of Phillipsburg Nova Scotia arriving home from shopping to find her house entered and two pocketbooks missing. She boarded a trolley when glancing out, seeing two men on the sidewalk with a cane and one hander the other a pocketbook. Police alerted.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a purse and a pocketbook dropped near Ned. No clear names, dates, or places readable. The text hints at a theft incident but lacks concrete details to identify people or location.
Mrs Jewell of Herrien Springs Michigan credits Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for rapid relief after years of suffering from liver and piles. She compares the simple laxative to her cure and notes the accompanying booklet and physician’s signature on the packaging. A free trial bottle is offered by writing Dr Caldwell at 455 Washington St Monticello, Tennessee.
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