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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1912
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate East Oregon Daily and Bent Weekly printed in Oregon with Pendleton post office entry. It lists distribution points including Oregon News Co Portland and Northwest News Co Portland and addresses.
The piece questions tariff policy as a political plank and notes contradictions in opposition to tariff walls. It cites Henry Clews on industrial profits and prices, arguing lower tariffs could reduce prices and aid consumers while harming certain industries. It highlights the need for state action against white slavery within counties.
A Kansas focus proposes catalpa trees as a profitable long term crop. Experts like Charles Delker of Hudson and W. W. Hall tout plantations of 100000 and 60000 trees yielding potential five hundred dollars per acre. Harvests begin in two years with no tree care during wait. The Get-Rich-Steadily Catalpa notes strong demand for posts and poles and compares catalpa to wheat farming in risk and reward.
A rough man enters a home seeking cash from a boy named Willie. The boy directs him to an old coat in the kitchen containing the money. The intruder rages, but a punch lands, and the bruised man is tossed into the gutter as Willie’s wit blocks further talk about the old man hiding inside the coat.
A reader excerpt shows a student declaring captaincy for the year while joking about turning a father’s bull to the field. The line notes a unanimous election and references Lip Pincott’s in a clipped, streamy style.
In a New York dinner tale, Arthur Conan Doyle offers to help a lady troubled by recurring thefts. Items taken include a motor horn, broom, golf balls, a boot, a dictionary, and tin plates. Doyle quips that the goat keeps the case. Germany plans to challenge for a s universal boat race off Marblehead next summer.
A license clerk questions if she has ever married, prompting the veteran prima donna to exclaim in shock. She ridicules press attention and immediately wires to discharge her press agent, Chicago Post reports.
Youngsters in Timole village debated candidates for team captain. The owner of the ball field, a small strub-nosed lad, rose to control the meeting with a dignified air as the decision seemed undecided.
Co. D Robinson of Pawnee City Nebraska shows small land wealth can yield big per acre profit. He harvested twenty acres netting 152.17 dollars per acre totaling 3043.40 from the crop. State forester C A Scott notes this is a good example of what a small farmer can do with limited land.
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