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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1920
Page
7
The readable lines show an old newspaper notice describing subscription options and durations for daily and semi weekly editions. It references the Associated Press and various term lengths such as one year three months and monthly by mail or carrier.
The article reports Governor Cox aligning with President Wilson on the League of Nations, emphasizing faithfulness to the war promises and urging voters to support America staying in the League. It notes Cox’s prior statements in Washington and Ohio about joining the League and fulfilling national commitments.
A farmer recently bought a costly local home after weighing Pendleton versus a Washington town. He favored Pendleton due to local conditions, with Washington farming interests still larger. The report hints Pendleton’s favorable climate aided a half million dollar ranch deal, underscoring growth as a business proposition for the town.
The article notes that the Eighteenth Amendment bars manufacture or sale of intoxicants and cannot be repealed easily. It adds that Congress could adjust enforcement but not render something clearly intoxicating constitutional, a point raised in the Bryan-Colby-Glass debate. It also mentions Mother Killian’s selection in a Sisters of St. Francis order and favorable wheat yield reports, with tumult among gap lifters and a warning to tie cars to lamp posts.
A campaign with heavy rhetoric has begun in France amid wartime shortages. Freich pees call for a “great mobilization” as wholesale prices fall while retail prices remain steady. An appeal to men of the economy to organize a monk's strike to force fresh vegetable price reductions is noted.
United Press dispatch from Bemlin July 20 notes democracy reaches Germany with racing crowds swelling in Hamburg Ruhleben Grunewald Frankfurt and Dresden. Working people attend as wages rise and ticket prices climb. Spectators spend heavily on betting machines while grandstands fill with professionals and casual bettors alike.
In Yellowstone Park two San Francisco men, Dr Saxton T. Pope and Arthur H. Yount, used arrows to kill five grizzly bears, including a female cub. The bears were hunted under government permit and the event drew attention to their bow and arrow method and the claim of Young as American bow and arrow champion.
Soviet Premier Nikolai Lenin argues in Moscow that harmonizing capitalism and socialism is the central problem for the Soviet state. He notes the long transition from feudalism to a new system, stressing education of the rising generation and the need for a strong policy to guide reconstruction.
The passage argues that effort should first target dismantling top positions and owners in Poland as a preliminary step toward establishing permanent peace and improving economic conditions. It emphasizes directing measures to reduce power structures and pave the way for stability.
Shanghai authorities launch a campaign to prevent another cholera outbreak. Lectures and demonstrations accompany parades to urge public adherence to sanitation measures amid the city’s past epidemic impact.
Transactions show multiple property transfers and liens. National Surety Co loans, land descriptions in Pendleton and surrounding towns, and several parcels exchanged between buyers and sellers including names Nichola Taney McKinnes Hoke Walters Whltera and Grace Reumagovx with values ranging from 16 to 5000 dollars.
New York reports a trial of loud speaking telephones to relay warnings and station announcements at subway hubs. A conductor operates the device, delivering amplified messages to riders on seats platforms and ceilings, with portable transmitters for guard use.
Fragmented text references Filipinos seeking liberty while noting suffering in Korea Manchuria and wor ree. Ambiguous names and places blur the historical point, offering only a hint of a broader anti oppression message without clear events or dates.
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