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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1908
Page
4
Independent Pendleton daily weekly and semi weekly newspaper publishes subscription rates by mail and carrier. The notice lists daily and weekly plans with prices, billing options, and the Pendleton Oregon mailing address.
Pendleton Commercial association appoints a committee to cooperate with the O R N company in a campaign for starry land farming and anti summer fallow. The article urges farmers to adopt improved methods for consistent yearly crops, arguing national benefit outweighs railroad interests.
A Delineator excerpt argues for better depot design to improve travelers’ impressions and urges railways to beautify stations with plants. It also cites a Pendleton editorials linking kitchen labor to women’s health, endorsing gas or electric stoves and presenting a full poem by Charlotte Perkins Gilman on kitchen toil and motherhood.
President Roosevelt seeks to avert widespread railroad strikes threatening multiple systems. He warns of harm to business and added costs to the public if disputes escalate and calls for preventive measures to keep commerce moving.
The president questions a political motive behind proposed wage reductions and urges an Interstate Commerce Commission inquiry. The aim is to reveal whether wage cuts fund dividend inflation or watered stock, and to inform public opinion on railroad policies and potential strike implications.
The Pendleton Tribune declines to back Fulton Cake or O’Ren and signals uncertainty about support for George E Chamberlain. The paper questions whether Mr Geer may again back Chamberlain, amid factional tensions. The public remains curious who Geer’s senatorial choice will be.
The East Oregonian endorses John McCourt of this city for the Oregon district attorneyship. It hails him as a successful, clean, capable, honest and fearless prosecutor, fully equal to the delicate responsibilities of the post and worthy of nomination.
The record lists 13 campaigns with dates and candidates from both parties, including Lincoln and Hamlin, Grant and Colfax, Hayes and Wheeler, Garfield and Arthur, McKinley with Roosevelt, Bryan with Stevenson, and others. It notes electoral votes, pluralities, and splits between northern and southern democrats, Breckenridge-Lane vs Douglas-Johnson.
In a dry land a speaker imagines acorn held aloft as oaks plead to be planted again. Ghostly trees surround and rebuke the speaker for destroying their shade and fruit, urging renewal. The verse by Millard F. Hudson in Maxwell's Talisman uses personified trees to plead for restoration and care.
McCall's Magazine urges readers to combat worry by affirming a free conscience and self mastery each night. A simple daily vow to be happy, cheerful, and helpful can loosen worry's grip and transform perspective, opening a new plane of life.
Lischen M. Miller laments the centuries long watch of the Douglas Spruce, once emerald and grand, felled by man’s thrift and transformed into plank and mast. The poem mourns loss from a bannered, helmeted forest to a wood without a port or guiding star, noting the tree’s stand from southern crosses to the white north.
A zealous push seeks to protect the Appalachian mountains from logging and development. Advocates urge public use and conservation measures to safeguard forests, watersheds, and wildlife habitats amid mounting commercial pressure.
Collier’s Weekly condemns Speaker Joseph Cannon for curbing the agriculture committee, noting two last year’s members were dropped for their stance on a vital bill. The piece claims the current committee favors the measure 10 to against, warning of disgrace if defeated.
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