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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1908
Page
4
An independent paper in Pendleton Oregon lists subscription options and prices by mail and carrier. The notice details daily, weekly, and larger multi week plans with varying terms and the note to call for telephone inquiries.
Pendleton rejoices as 16 right of way deeds west and south of Freewater are filed by Walli Walla Traction and other electric line firms. The route will connect Pendleton with the east end of the county, boosting land values and replacing vanish settlements, with growth toward Athena and a potential 20,000 population in a few years.
The Pendleton Tribune and T. T. Geer oppose the shift to people ruled government. They rail against referenda and popular elections while decrying the rise of direct democracy. Legislators are agents of the people, who are sovereign and capable of guiding their state.
An analysis praises France for a billion-dollar inland waterway program that links producers to consumers, reduces rail reliance, and emphasizes a fixed, funded policy. It notes traffic growth from 1905 to 1906, compares water and rail costs for coal and wheat, and argues the United States could profit from a coordinated national system shared by river and rail.
The piece defends the Tribune for backing the people’s will, arguing few legislators will truly serve the public. It claims Oregon has put the horse before the cart and challenges detractors to act, asking what they will do now.
The East Oregonian notes monthly publication Lend a Hand from Oregon state penitentiary inmates. It praises the magazine for optimism and reform minded content urging charity and second chances for convicts.
A quatrain style exhortation urges action and energy to beat gloom announcing author M Finch of San Francisco. The piece mixes motivational lines with a call to apply effort and resilience in pursuit of success.
A July Nautilus passage by Elizabeth Towna argues that individuals must develop for the collective good. It asserts that personal progress hinges on spreading culture and prosperity, forming communities, and compelling incorrigibles to yield. It links individual and state rights to serving the whole and warns of self-destruction through selfishness.
From far away through the wood comes the sobbing note of the whippoorwill. The moon rises cold and stern, trees shadowy, weary travelers guided by a tranquil song. A friendly note and a tireless throat, a jolly face, and the sigh of the wood accompany one walking along.
A brief note introduces Mine Viadot-Garcia to American readers via Mme Charles Bigot in Putnam's and the Reader for June. The article credits her with singing at the interment of Napoleon in Paris in 1840. At present she earns 187 in wages and has been an orphan for two years since her father Manuel Garcia died in 1906 at age 101.
A promotional notice touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for stomach ailments, liver issues, and chronic bowel problems. It cites endorsements from prominent physicians and lists ingredients like Black Cherry Bark, Golden Seal, Mandrake, and Queen’s Root, claiming safety, no alcohol, and glycerine as a base, with emphasis on broad acceptability and open formula.
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