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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1904
Page
4
A dramatic allegory warns against clinging to old methods as progress rushes by. A deaf man on the tracks becomes a symbol for business and professional people who ignore signals of change, with calls to adapt or be left behind by the evolving world.
The column rails at vote registration practices funded by public money, condemning district operatives who register party supporters. It also notes Buckley’s war view from Chicago reporting, and discusses municipal ownership of electric and water plants as a civic issue.
In New York James J. Hill claimed the canal would only aid banana growers and not the nation. He argued transportation is adequate and Northwest residents face high Rates amid Northern Securities costs. Pendleton theater tolls cited show explosive public dissatisfaction with entertainment costs.
April 14 Republican state convention in Portland and April 1 Democratic state convention in Portland. Also May 2 Oregon Car growers Association meeting in Portland, May 4 General M. E conference in Joe Angolea, and May 4 Oregon Federation of Labor in Oregon City.
A fragmented verse piece by BERT HUFFMAN from Pendleton Oregon laments fading hunts and memories. It blends archaic imagery of warriors and rivers with a dreamlike call from the past and a lone voice mourning lost ancestors and vanished races.
A discussion argues that a Panamanian state could avoid taxes if the United States pays $10 per inhabitant and funds from railroad bonds and canal rent cover government needs. It contends cash disbursements and dividends would ensure income to run the republic without citizen taxation, citing a Washington origin for the plan and contrasting with other South American experiences.
A letter presented to Mayor McClellan discusses Mormon proselytizing in New York City, defending elders as unpaid and devoted. It denies modern polygamy, noting Woodruff’s 1890 manifesto ended the practice, and mentions a long street meeting near Seventh Avenue and 125th Street. The item includes unrelated brief notes on Thomas J. Maguire’s cancer treatment and Nealy Raby’s reported age of 132 in a New Jersey poor house.
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