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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1906
Page
4
Regional notice from Pendleton Oregon listing subscription and advertising rates, offices and mailing information. Includes entry details for the East Oregonian Publishing Co and contact data, plus submission deadlines for ads and notices.
A compact, period voice reflecting on how thoughts shape emotions and outcomes. The piece asserts thoughts are powerful and swift, guiding love or hate, with a focus on inward causality and mental law. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is referenced as the source of the idea.
Letters from residents urge residents of eastern Oregon to boycott itinerant peddlers selling groceries and general merchandise. They argue home merchants support schools churches and public institutions, pay taxes, and reinvest in the county, while peddlers take money elsewhere. Citizens are urged to co operate with local merchants to build the country.
The post and robbery issue features Representative Hangen arguing against the parcels post bill. He notes railroad freight charges for mail transport are excessive, claiming more than a quarter of the Postal Service budget goes to railroads. He warns perpetual parcel rates could bankrupt government mail service.
Analysis by Representative Mingen reveals postal parcels carried at express rates lose money for the Post Office. The study shows government pays railroads for mail transport far more than private firms pay for express parcels, while express firms deduct office and delivery costs. The figures suggest the Post Office should avoid profitable express-like service.
The New York Mail reports three men who led the Mutual Reserve and Mutual Life insurance companies a year ago: one is dead, another is an invalid, and a third, now resigned, travels abroad under district attorney engagement and may return if needed. Indictments in March charged larceny and forgery. two vice presidents were indicted yesterday for forgery and perjury and forgery and misdemeanor. The push aims to hold high officials criminally responsible for concealment and false reporting behind the insurance system.
A listing of events from June to September including Northwest Sportsmen's tournament in Walla Walla and multiple conventions in Omaha Denver Bose City and Pendleton. Wool sale dates for Oregon fixed by the Oregon Woolgrowers Association cover Shantiro Baker City Elgin with June July dates. A quoted bank historical note discusses a Chinese bank failure and a harsh promise against future failures.
A retelling of Alexander Graham Bell’s early life as a teacher, his emigration to America, and how his crude telephone model faced investor indifference. It covers failed exhibitions, funding rejections by Depew and Cameron, and the Boston to Somerville line proving practical. The piece notes rapid growth from a three mile line to vast national use and employment.
Alaska's coal potential expands from St Michele at the Yukon mouth to Bennett City with Alpine coal belts likely to cover the intervening region. The Atlin district reports vast coal on the Toorn river as the Atlin Tuoga Coal Syndicate proceeds with further work through summer. Other active deposits include Tantnine Nome, Selmer, and Cook Inlet seams yielding yellow dust from carboniferous shale. FB I. Melvin, a Northern Pacific brakeman, died after being crushed between a hammer and train at Ellensburg, leaving a wife and two young children.
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