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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1911
Page
4
A city newspaper column argues the current government is hard to attract qualified candidates for mayor and council. It praises the commission form, saying three public servants with salaries would attract better leaders, concentrate responsibility, and reduce graft, urging Pendleton readers to consider a fall switch.
The electric company long influenced Pen dietor city council to secure a yes franchise, a struggle remembered vividly by many as the battle over granting the utility concession unfolds in local politics.
The East Oregonian denounces the gas franchise as unfair and expensive, urging reform despite weak council pushback. Residents descry triple rates for illumination, blaming electric company influence and warning an upcoming city election may trigger an overhead wire ban via initiative.
Local leaders urge a public luncheon to discuss Interstate Commerce Commission ruling affecting Spokane Pendleton and Port land. The plan envisions Pendleton as a regional hub, with jobbers relocating depots and eastern Oregon distributing centers. Rates based on distance and fair interior access emerge as key issues.
Richard A Ballinger resists mining Alaska coal for public benefit, aiming to benefit the Guggenheims. This stance is cited as a reason he is not currently serving in the president's cabinet.
A newspaper note warns that slaughterhouses near homes worsen conditions and that current water shortages may stem from insufficient supply, highlighting public health and resource strain in the area.
In a development affecting the local branch asylum, officials note that water provisioning will not be required to be supplied this summer. The statement suggests stable current allocations and avoids planned summer resupply operations.
A gentle elderly fan attends a baseball game between the White Sox and the Yankees. He defends an umpire mocked by roaring crowds, urging others to let him alone as the scene ends with the game’s close.
The poem recalls a man named William FO Kirk who dies after tripping on a can while running, leading to his burial in the park he loved. The text closes with a moral about gentleness and the dangers of overcaution.
A humorous mock exhortation unfolds urging patient pursuit of a stubborn fly. The speaker weighs tactics from stealthy approaches to a final decisive lunge, urging restraint and calm while imagining the satisfying moment of victory. The piece uses playful, old time diction and ends with a conditional note that enduring effort may pay off.
A St. Louis Mirror excerpt shows an innkeeper and his clerk reacting to a bald guest with a comic exchange about brain wetness and hair. The guest, wearing gold trimmed eye glasses, jeers at social pretenses while a bellboy shuffles nearby. The dialogue exposes racial stereotypes through the bellboy and his father’s idle saying about empty buns.
A wife exclaims she will avoid buying dresses or hats after reading this month's fashion magazine. Her husband, sly and amused, notes there has been little change in styles from last summer. He settles back, smoking, and contemplates the scheme.
Amelia Miles, president of the Professional Woman's league in New York, recalls the Gerton sisters tale. Annie, practical and capable, wins a suitor by her hard work and clever ruse, prompting him to propose that she join him in marriage and home.
Deshler announces no issue for the week of July 4 as editor and his wife and foreman and wife depart Monday July 10 for Mackinac via D and C inc. They will be away all week. Ad work will wait until next week. They seek funds for cheese bolster crackers to sustain them on vacation.
A domestic joke unfolds with Mrs. Nuwed and Mary debating dinner. The suggestion of boiled mutton with capers leads to a light exchange about fetching capers from the garden.
Thirty thousand Vengtians perished in 1478 due to famine caused by the depredations of Iocuats. The historic record notes a devastating toll on the realm, highlighting the famine as a consequence of ongoing conflicts.
A fragmented timeline lists events from 1134 to 1909 including Portugal’s monarchy, naval sieges near Tripoli, scholarly pursuits by Lords, cholera outbreak in Massachusetts, large convicts’ attacks, a steamboat disaster on the John Jay, a severe Clegheny County storm, forest fires in Phi Nps and nearby towns, American advances at Porto Rico, and Orville Weight’s aviation record with a passenger aboard.
Congressman Ollie M James of Kentucky is described as born July 27 1371 and aged about forty years today. The sketch notes he will succeed Senator Thomas Hah Painter at the term's end and mentions his age and background in a brief beam.
Native of Crittenden County Kentucky educated in common and academic schools served as a page in the Kentucky legislature in 1887 studied law under his father and admitted to the bar in 1890 gained fame as a lawyer for Gov Goebel in his governor contest. He was a delegate to Democratic national conventions in 1904 and 1908 and chaired Kentucky’s delegation at all three conventions. He has chaired the Kentucky state convention and received other party honors. In 1903 he married Ruth Thomas of Morton Kentucky and has served in every congress since fifty eighth.
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