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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1918
Page
4
An old publication page lists pricing for daily and semi weekly editions, mail and carrier delivery options, and various city and bureau addresses. It includes rates like daily one year by mail at 3.50 and semi weekly by mail at .75, with distribution details for Pendleton and Portland.
A fragmented historic chant praising the Brothers of Francs and Lafayette's children as fearless fighters for liberty. The text references defending land, iron trends, red fields, and steadfastly holding the line against oppression.
The piece argues Germany fields about 2.6 million on the western front and the United States must rapidly enlarge its forces. It stresses expanding draft ages, building air power, and strengthening artillery with gas and siege shells. Manpower, aircraft, and artillery are the three decisive factors in winning the war.
Timid souls fear government control of telegraph and telephones will censor the press. The author argues government mail control, in effect for 140 years, has not produced such results. The press relies more on mail than on wire and has not faced tyranny or attempts to control opinion.
The War Service Committee of the American Library Association reports 435000 books shipped to American soldiers by July 1. Books were placed on transports bound for France and naval bases abroad, with more than 2500000 supplied to camps and stations at home and overseas. About 500000 were purchased. others came as gifts via public libraries. Massachusetts passes a law requiring men 18 to 50 to join the army or hold a useful occupation, 36 hours weekly. The text closes with unrelated notes on a grave, sugar hoarding, and a scattered remark about doubles.
A Best Oregonian note recalls gifts of peaches from a Tonebure shed and a delay in the westbound mail due to a bridge issue west of Kamela. Willam Keott visits Pendleton from Hejix and predicts grain yields around 26 bushels per acre. D R Kirk returns from treatment at Walls and improves. A livestock fire scorches stock near Promer Palle on the Northern Pacific today.
A quirky fragment describes a gudder traveler through Kentucky on hovertack in late August. He haggles with a lane keeper over water, joking about four merry haw haw as the merchant reacts.
A collage of wartime letters and diary fragments reveals humor skepticism and stoic endurance. An American soldier explains limited raids and aims to end two plans to hell while a Canadian veteran notes wounds and valor. A frightened citizen begs bread from Uncle Sam as a German fighter pleads for mercy.
Washington July 25 The little buoy tee Improvement worker though odd shows sting against Hun force as propaganda rhetoric mentions a vast honey weight estimate of 259,000,000 pounds.
Fragmentary OCR notes hint at a gubernatorial contest among Governor Charlie Whitman and Attorney General Lewis with Theodore Duniglas Nabinkent and Wil Them W. Cocke as possible allies. Mentions a congress member and family ties to Colonel Moonr vel, but text is incomplete and unclear.
The Department of Agriculture advocates a national increase in honey output to 10 to 20 pounds per acre, arguing higher production would bolster the food supply during shortages. The statement notes current beetle and drought challenges and highlights benefits of expanding beekeeping and land use. In other news, land near Haoxlerong Pin township was reloaned for homestead entry due to irrigation issues.
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