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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1905
Page
4
Notice to advertisers shows guidance for submitting advertising matter and deadlines. It indicates registration or regonian steps and references a Saturday date, though the text is garbled. The readable items point to ad submission timing and publication scheduling.
A somber meditation on death and relief as men seek peace beyond life. The speaker contemplates divine aid guiding souls to a land of lasting rest where anger fades and storms subside.
The tax commission should require sheriff collection of personal property taxes at county expense to cut farming, livestock, mercantile, and visible property taxes. Widespread unpaid personal property taxes hinge on this. vacant speculative lots also escape taxes, inflating property values and harming taxpayers. Reforms would lower taxes on industry and activity.
Readable text accuses big gamblers of returning to exploit harvest workers as a city council closing order is mocked. It claims the grand jury effort on gambling was a farce and that Unicorns hold power in Umatilla County. Observers say gambling persists despite supposed official actions.
Dispatches from Washington say Secretary Taft travels to insular possessions as fears of an imminent collapse of civil government rise in the Philippines. Governor Wright reportedly struggles to manage relations with natives, hindering effective administration.
The article contrasts Taft’s approach with Wright’s, noting Taft’s tactic of placing influential natives in office to enforce laws and reduce land tax arrears. It highlights failed compromises over land titles with Dominican friars, revenue declines, and the need for Taft to press on with his tour despite Hay’s death.
Umatilla county schools show top county exhibit with a strong public school display and works from Pendleton academy Weaton Normal Columbia College St Josephs academy and Pendleton Business College The Weston Normal manual training photos and county scenes draw visitors strength from grain crop figures in the 1904 agricultural yearbook highlighted Washington leading Oregon and Idaho in total yield and wheat value amid forecasts of growth this year.
Edgar Boy the stallion brought to Walla Walla by Walter L. Cadman paced a trial work out in 2 11 for a third heat with Jockey White riding a runner and Robert Prior driving. The mile by quarters was 24, 1 07, 1 40 and 31. Track was rough from stretch to first turn and the mile was called extremely fast for early season.
Garrett P. Servies argues in the San Francisco Examiner that science is revealing material realities hidden from sight and sound. From the solar corona to the Orion nebula, unseen truths may outnumber visible space, aided by ultraviolet glass that could unveil more of the heavens. Omniscience would be a fearful burden for any intelligence lacking omnipotence.
A group of congenial friends in San Francisco enjoyed a unique progressive dinner on Saturday night. The nine course tour moved by the Palace Car San Francisco to clubs and eateries across town from Union League to Montgom ery and Pine, O Farrell, Sansome, City Hill, Twenty fourth Avenue, and Cliff House. Prizes were awarded for the game of 600 at Merchants' club.
London Sphere recounts Kirghese practice of hunting foxes with eagles in Sibberia to darken the hunt and boasts of a bird capable of killing wolves. A correspondent claims an eagle killed 17 foxes in six weeks and cites photographs of the sport while recalling Florida foxes climbing pines during kills.
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