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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1903
Page
4
The speaker declares she would rather cherish the thought of her people's happiness than wear jewels of victory. She asserts she never caused tears in Napoleon's first wife and values this memory above royal honors.
A dated dialogue imitates an early wireless exchange with Echo from 1905. The exchange mentions Portland, sending a large freight of peaches and alfalfa, fat cattle, sheep, and flour for ships. It wildly exaggerates demand and references China and Alaska while asking how many of Echo's 5,000 people would attend a fair.
Umatilla and Morrow counties celebrate the choice of a 200000 acre tract in Eastern Oregon as the first national irrigation site. The plan envisions futures of wheat, alfalfa, fruit, and farms in a climate ideal for reservoirs and systems, with Roosevelts calling an extra session to ratify related matters. Local leaders praise the potential economic boom and government reclamation as pivotal for Oregon.
A fragment from a state agricultural report hints that a fertility and productivity program could be successfully extended to other sections of the state, suggesting broader adoption pending further study.
A U.S. senator secured a grant of five hundred thousand dollars for an emergency program. The urgent need has been addressed and the crisis moment has passed.
The Electrical Review reports Samuel F B Morse kept a 1843 diary during Baltimore to Washington telegraph work. It details an August 10 1848 entry predicting a telegraphic link across the Atlantic and notes progress from Pacific cables to a wireless era via Marconi.
A Chicago Chronicle Moscow correspondent recounts a Tomsk hospital tale of a peasant farmer described as over 60 in a 1763 passport, widowed 123 years. He recalls Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. his wife died in 1780 after 47 years married. his son died in 1824 at age eight.
Professor C A L Totten argues against the superstition of Friday the 13th and the number 13 in American heraldry. He cites 11 letters in BEPLO RIBS UNUM and 18 repeated on the Great Seal, urging acknowledgment of thirteen as a baker's dozen and noting historic references such as Mantiassel as Israel’s thirteenth tribe.
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