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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1904
Page
4
A late 19th century Sunday Examiner column warns against transient peddlers and fraudulent enterprises. It recalls experiences in Grand Ronde Valley with cheap imports, warns of inferior crates, and urges state and county action to protect home industry while detailing dangers from unscrupulous sellers and clairvoyants.
The piece discusses Salem’s 14 week population debate, freighted with political opinions and calls for reform. It notes the beef trust pressure on the public and hints at broad social friction across Oregon communities amid economic and political shifts. It touches on irrigation and road projects, tariff considerations, and critiques of party divisions in national politics. It mentions Umatilla County wheat estimates and education of Umatilla Indians amid cultural challenges and evolving social pressures.
Latest figures place the US telephone sector at over 460 million dollars in capital, more than 4000 systems, and about 2.7 million telephones. It employed 4,628 wage earners plus 14,124 officials and clerks, with revenue about 86.8 million and expenses 61.15 million. Independent rural and farmers lines add thousands of miles of wire and recent totals show 9136 systems and 2.07 million telephones nationwide.
A reflective piece on humanity's fascination with fortune telling. The essay notes that people, despite skepticism, listen closely to palm readers and gypsies, revealing a shared, enduring superstition about glimpsing the future. It discusses habitually cultivating wiser habits instead of relying on such forecasts.
New York World reports plans for a four and a half hour Mont Blanc rail route from Chamounix, with four stations at Crow Bechand, near the Dome and Vallot observatory, including a tunnel under the source. The line climbs to 14,070 feet and a final exit to the summit via covered path.
Backed by testimonials and cures for female weakness and related ailments, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is offered with a $100 reward for any case of leucorrhea or falling sickness it cannot cure. The ad touts remarkable cure records, praises the product for women, and invites trial while asserting safety and gentleness.
A fragmented poem reflecting on time, vacations, and the urge to escape work. It weaves images of fourteen moons, shifting sands, a break in the year, and the desire to trade labor for leisure. The piece blends whimsy with a meditation on rest, renewal, and the pull of distant days.
A jumbled fragment offers aphorisms on home life and marriage. It contrasts harsh blame with gentleness, warns against deceit, and uses metaphorical images of honeyed speech and a horse that can carry one to escape. The text appears as scattered moral reflections.
John Hay laments the immortality granted to the young dead as he recalls Raphael Shelly Keats and a soldier boy, whose fearless eyes and ardent dreams outlast a brief wintry eve. Their memories preserve the youth that shaped them, defying time with enduring fame.
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