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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1905
Page
7
London reports plans to construct the world’s largest battleship at Portsmouth dockyard, displacing about 168000 tons with 12 12 inch guns firing three 50 pound shells every two minutes, turbine propulsion, speed over 20 knots. The vessel, called the Dreadnought, aims for keel to pennant in 16 months, with total cost near 10001000.
General Matinger Chipman of the Indianapolis and Eastern Electri railway used human nature to dig and plow a park at minimal cost. He buried 400 in coins across the park and opened the area to patrons, sparking a throng of diggers. The exercise loosened the park surface and yielded free landscaping. the car company gained traffic and amusement without expense. The piece links this stunt to a familiar tale of sons finding gold in a worn farm, arguing people will work hard to get something for nothing.
Judge Neterer of Whatcom County Superior Court upholds the law declaring eight hours a day equals four days of public work. The Lind case rejects the U S Supreme Court Lichner decision as inapplicable, tying it to private employment rather than public labor. Lawnon in St Paul to speak on finance and oil monopoly issues with Governor Johnson hosting. Bernard Kerfiel, 19, gains notice in France for his painting.
An essay mixes a Chinese pomelo description with archaic notes on fruit taste, texture, and preparation plus a cascade of legendary giant heights. It pairs the pomelo as hardy and keepable with various biblical and mythic giants, culminating in the notion that Og held the record.
The doldrums is a calm belt near the equator where the north and south trade winds meet. Sailors once faced whistling for wind with sails heavy as ships drifted, giving rise to the phrase about ship and sea being idle.
A column of brief anecdotes and quips spans health tips about keeping the spine flexible to delay old age, a note on Senator Douglas as Lincoln era voice and stature, theater audiences in Wales singing hymns, a humorous exchange about a proposal, a kiss joke, a banking humor item, and a maxims closing line about nations and borrowing trouble.
Washington July 13 The Panama canal commission plans to import 2000 laborers from Italian Chinese and Japanese groups for a 500 day contract to test feasibility and methods of securing laborers. Workers to be supplied by contractors and delivered by December 1 free hospital medical care unfurnished quarters fuel and water provided eight hour days. Laborers from canal isthmus may not enter the United States under recent immigration laws. Amnesty for Deroulede reported in Paris for national holiday.
Arrangements are complete for the National Livestock Exchange annual meeting in Buffalo one week from today. Topics include stockholder membership requirements for corporations, ending travellog solicitors, equalizing exchange commissions, establishing a mortgage credit system, and granting Interstate Commerce Commission powers. The article notes a humorous aside about work and appetite comparing rich and poor.
An old advertisement urges readers to test kidney health by a glass of water overnight, then promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for kidney and urinary issues. It claims relief from back pain and incontinence, notes available in fifty cent and one dollar sizes, and offers a free sample by mail from Kilmer Co Binghamton NY.
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