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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1909
Page
7
Washington report shows spring wheat yield per acre at 95.2 with 18,890,000 acres sown and winter wheat at 80.7. It compares current conditions to 10-year averages and notes acreage changes in barley and oats, plus June 1 conditions for Washington, Oregon, and California.
J F Harms resigns as meat inspector at National Stock Yards East St Louis alleging utter disregard of infection rules and demanding investigation. He served 18 months and called the system a farce in a letter to Secretary Wilson. Agriculture department will investigate with two inspectors sent to St Louis yards.
Chicago officials disclose Harriman lines use in house public sentiment tracking. General managers receive current press samples, compile attitude records, and telegraph monthly synopses showing favorable, unfavorable, and neutral percentages. Reports help detect friction and guide corrective actions in New York.
Everett Washington a Great Northern Eastbound train prepared to depart a mother rushes on the platform to secure a ticket. She leaps aboard as the conductor halts the train when she realizes the baby is left behind. The baby is recovered and returned to the mother.
A time train in the city has been halted by an emergency, delaying service. Authorities are responding and coordinating with rail operators. No further details were provided on cause or injuries.
In Paris Whistler and Ernest Delannoy join Delaroche era at Gleyre and rent heady student life. A famed Veronese replica of Cana is gambled with and stolen by river, a splashy prank that draws police and crowds. The tale, recounted in Pall Mall Gazette, marks a raucous yet celebrated episode in art life.
During a visit to Marseilles Mozart attended a performance of Villanella Rapita incognito. A score error caused a D natural to be played instead of D sharp, provoking Mozart to cry out for the proper note. He directed the revival, and the audience acclaimed his triumph afterward.
A letter from a game breeder claims two pheasant hens hatched seventeen eggs each but then killed thirteen chicks each, arranging the bodies in a row. The author notes the coincidence and asks if such a case has been observed before, playfully calling thirteen an unlucky number.
Spokane dispatch reports farmers along the new Spokane Portland and Seattle line in central Washington pressing for warehouses or elevators at Calvert. Without facilities, they must haul grain long distances or load at sidetracks for shipment to Spokane or coast mills, paying high per sack freight costs. Farmers have written to Harry Adams in Portland requesting warehouse plans, hoping for fall relief.
New York report describes Mrs Corbett, her husband, and father Jacob Kirchessrer starving in a West Forty-seventh Street tenement. The father lay unconscious, while Mrs Corbett, weakened, struggled at a window seeking help after days without food since Saturday. Illness and disability left them destitute. last crust shared among them, father sent to hospital, physician and nurse summoned.
A woman asked a store manager for employment and suggested her appearance would bring in sales. The manager offered about $6 a week due to inexperience. She accepted but hesitated, then asked if $7 could be earned to cover occasional laundry.
Path finder notes a playful line about the word love in an Indian dialect. A forest maiden speaks of copper colored brave affection with a lengthy verb conjugation that would take a year to recite.
Notice states that High street from Thompson to Jane streets has been completed per contract and accepted by Pendleton's common council. It warns the cost is due at the city recorder's office and payable within 40 days, or a lien foreclosure may ensue against the fronting property. Dated June 10, 1909, Pendleton.
A compact quote pairing contrasts worries of men and women with a wry observation from Smart Set and a longer thought from Rochefoucauld. The excerpt presents reflections on love, affection, and social expectation in a terse, aphoristic style.
Federal Court yesterday ruled against Thomas T. Hill a Machinists Union member accused of luring striking workers from Denver by promising fake jobs in Kansas City Kan The plan aimed to split unions and push workers off the job through false promises Hill's attorneys said they will appeal based on the evidence presented for the alleged hoax connections to railroad labor disputes.
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