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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1910
Page
4
Member United Press Association notes this term in a Pendleton Oregon post office entry. The notice identifies the publication as the official city and county paper.
Senator Bristow urges a new political alignment to unite progressives and curb corporate greed. He compares today’s monopolies to antebellum slave interests and argues both major parties fail to represent the average citizen, calling for a realignment of parties to serve the people.
The excerpt argues for the rise of a party dedicated to rule by the people and warns that delay increases upheaval risk. It contemplates an earlier Republican formation might have mitigated slavery issues, urging Progressives to unite to hasten change and avert conflict.
In a pointed critique the writer accuses the Oregonian of bias and political factionalism over its treatment of the irrigation law amendment. He argues the amendment originated in the house to address states with no feasible projects and questions the paper’s claim it could pass only with that amendment.
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph and Pullman Car Company are scrutinized for misleading profit statements. The phone firm cites a fraction over one percent return on investment, while Pullman warns of bankruptcy if rates drop. Reader notes warn against trusting corporate disclosures and urge caution in interpreting profits. Walter Wellman is named as aiming to cross the Atlantic, and references to Saga more Hill and a colonel abroad appear in the mix.
Proposal to form new counties faces pushback from residents within proposed boundaries. The issue centers on whether counties should be created against local wishes, amid ongoing discussions about governance and regional autonomy. Evening and night cooling is noted as a climate aside for eastern Oregon.
Sparks Electric describes how electric heat transforms industry and creates new products like carborundum and calcium carbide. It notes kilowatts and horsepower, early uses in navigation, improved long distance telephone reception, directional lamp brackets, observatories with copper reflectors, electricity driven mercury basins for telescope reflectors, electric road maps for autos, and a portable wireless system for the army ready in sixty eight seconds, with western railroads mentioned.
A draft plan envisions a monorail running in various weather across Alaska and a nine minute service between Brooklyn and Coney Island. Atlantic City eyes electric signs off the Boardwalk while Kansas adopts more electric pumping stations.
William J. Kelley at the Lambs Club questions the meaning of Easter and notes New York readers lack Bible knowledge. The New York Telegraph reports his remark on biblical ignorance and a dinner biblical argument where a young woman and another man joke about Sodom and Gomorrah being a married couple.
In Paris Mrs. Henry Clews jr moves toward divorce and a possible marriage to a titled suitor as Apaches of the Latin Quarter flood her life with telegram slang. Henry Clews sends messages to former lovers and Paris society watches with interest while Mrs Clews remains elusive to New York press.
Reports from the west show heavy homeseeker movement this spring with trainloads of settlers entering Montana Oregon and Washington. Many seek milder southwest climates while thousands return from Canada. A milder west avoids the Mississippi cold wave, fruit districts predict record crops and high prices as irrigated valleys report favorable conditions with no steady land increase.
Today and see for yourself what a wonderful medicine it is. In cases of poor appetite gas on stomach headache indigestion dyspepsia costiveness cramps diarrhoea malaria fever and ague. Its results are certain.
An old advertising piece extols a blood purifier, claiming millions of red corpuscles nourish the body. It links bad blood to skin, rheumatism, ulcers and other disorders and touts S. S. S. and B. B. B. as curatives. The Swift Specific Co of Atlanta, GA offers a free sample.
The article notes extensive railroad building in Montana Loho Washington and Oregon. It claims Oregon will offer 12,000,000 acres to settlers with new lines penetrating public domain. It describes the reclamation projects drawing homeseekers and the rapid farm development, with funds shaping completion by next spring or fall.
Experts declare a mummy found in Egypt and donated to the English Royal College of Surgeons in 1892 as the oldest known, dating back to about 3000 B C.
The East Oregonian announced a new carrier rate of 15 cents per week for home delivery. The notice notes pricing reflects service changes and remains in effect through the stated period.
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