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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1905
Page
4
Advertisement copy must reach the Oregonian by the stated time. Late submissions will not be accepted. Sent or delivered materials should be addressed to the proper department and include contact details for verification.
A retrospective notes that many principal actors from the Spanish American War era have died or retired, seven years since key events in Cuba Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and that a generation has passed since 1898. It lists leaders, diplomats, and military figures now gone or moved, with Roosevelt rising to the presidency as others fade from public life.
Barber Fickerson in Marysville blocks a pause for Vice President Fairbanks to wait while he handles his busy day. The incident unfolds in a small town scene as politicians are kept waiting during a shave.
A reflection asserts that law applies uniformly in barber shops nationwide, denying rebates or special treatment. It argues that the call of next leaves no appeal and that exact justice remains in the shop, a symbol of fundamental rights even if departed from courts.
The text notes a large export of gold and foreign loans, claiming 46 million dollars sent abroad over 12 months, a trade balance in America’s favor of over 400 million for the year ending June 30, and describes the gold loan as a temporary, interest-bearing move to aid Europe rather than settle a debt, framing it as a strategic financial loan.
The Kniaz Potemkin battleship is named after Prince Gregory Alexandrovitch Potemkin, a Catherine the Great era general and statesman. Born in Domnovo, Smolensk, 1739, he shifted from priesthood to soldiership, aided Catherine in 1762, and shaped foreign policy. He secured Crimea’s annexation, led armies against Turkey, and died October 15, 1791. Potemkin was famed for extravagance, wealth, vast estates, and capricious temper.
The London Chronicle notes the speaker of the House of Commons holds a grand Westminster residence, a £5000 salary plus £2100 for rationery, two hogsheads of claret, and 2000 ounces of plate on election. An 1689 act set the speaker's precedence directly after the peers of the realm.
The article discusses an impending Manchurian clash potentially the largest in world history if Russia and Japan fight before a peace treaty. It estimates Japanese artillery at about 1,400 guns and Russian forces around 356,000, with total combined forces nearing 1,000,000 soldiers and close to 3,000 cannons. Fronts stretch about 100 miles from the Liao River to Kirin, with both flanks maneuvering toward Russia. Historical battles are listed with their belligerents and sizes to provide scale.
A Norwegian inventor reportedly devised a device using a highly sensitive telephone or microphone in a boat to detect fish presence and approximate numbers by listening for underwater noises. The method claims to identify herrings and cod by sounds from gill flow and fin motion, aiding anglers in locating schools through a submerged sensor.
Mrs. George J. Steese of Coburn Street Akron Ohio shares a testimonial about Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment curing a baby’s skin humors after doctors failed. She describes a body covered in sores and ears at risk, then notes rapid healing after using half a cake of soap and a box of ointment, praising the low price and effectiveness.
An old advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as the great skin cure. It promises instant relief and refreshing sleep for babies with warm baths and gentle anointings, and rest for tired mothers, highlighting the products as emollients.
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