This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1907
Page
5
A Pendleton discussion questions using Carnegie Library funds for building a library. The speaker warns against tainting the project and suggests transforming the gift into public beauty and future enjoyment, citing a fable about a flower of enlightenment growing from a grave.
A poetic meditation by Joaquin Miller on how human learning expands as life, nature, religion, and beauty shape the soul. The verse enumerates the tolls of seas, shores, and sanctified labor, linking toil to divine and earthly worlds.
The Portland Oregonian and the Oregon Daily Journal clash over alleged plagiarism as both claim the other borrows eloquent flights. Critics note no newspaper is entirely free from borrowed thought and that writers often echo earlier expressions. Thought is vast and no one stands completely alone.
The East Oregonian argues over tainted money in funding a Pendleton Carnegie library. It condemns the source while noting the city’s need for a new building, urging careful lines between the donor’s wealth and public benefit as it weighs the tradeoffs of accepting gifts from plutocrats.
A review in the Oregonian on the public land situation in Oregon critiques opposition to forest reserve enlargements as being driven by land speculators and grabbers. It notes the debate echoes in Oregon papers and argues reserves do not hinder settlement while praising Pendleton and Umatilla county spirit and the West as a great, thriving land.
Hon Jesse Settlemire declares the late legislature was a failure lacking leadership and a definite program. He says members did not know whom to follow and few had power in important matters. The body shifted daily with no clear direction. D L Crowder of Lewiston named pure food inspector for northern Idaho and eastern Washington.
The poem paints Waikiki as a serene shore where cocoa crests, spears, and olgaroba trees frame a tropical harbor. Children of the sea escape coral walls while mynahs flutter and sophyre to roses speak. Night falls as fishermen light lances on the reef and waves glow red, celebrating Waikiki in dreamy, peaceful imagery.
AWaldo F. Warren essay urges young men to seize learning opportunities such as typewriting, noting missed chances hinder future promotions. The piece extols four core accomplishments: independent thinking, clear expression, skilled manual work, and social integration, linking them to success in commerce, manufacture, arts, and leadership.
New York City has formally acquired a long strip of land 96 miles long from the Catskills to the Ashokan reservoir for the aqueduct project. The city plans to spend 161 million dollars to secure a steady water supply for generations. Contracts will be awarded soon as work starts.
Charles Snyder writes in Everybody's magazine about the growing railway death toll since the Interstate Commerce Commission began recording figures. He notes nearly 6000 passenger deaths and over 134,000 railway worker and other fatalities, with far more injured, and laments worsening conditions from 1895 to 1906.
The article discusses a speculist proposing to modify a monkey’s face and neck by reshaping the nose cheeks forehead mouth chin and hairline and then plans to perform a similar operation on a man if the monkey procedure succeeds. It expresses hope that many men could be beautified by such procedures.
Reports from Dun's Review record February 1994 as the best for failures since 1990s outside 1993 and 1990. Total commercial failures reached 924 with defaulted indebtedness of 10.26 million, manufacturing insolvencies at 218 involving 4.26 million, and trading class 688 failures with 6.445 million defaulted. Other commercial failures total 29 with 460,918 in debits. Public hedge on welfare and budgetary suspensions cited at 4.406 million.
A fragment recounts an old view that bees were once male and female in equal numbers with males roaming freely, noting the shift in understanding of bee reproduction and social structure.
A playful medical tone compares bee colony life to human marriage and labor. The queen bee lays up to 1.5 million eggs in a lifetime and is fed by attendants, while workers, including the mother roles, sustain communal life. The passage blends amused observation with natural history.
The Walla Walla Bulletin notes Sunday closing pressures rise as saloon keepers oppose lax enforcement. At last night’s city council meeting YW Van Buren filed an affidavit accusing Adalph Schwarts of operating a mountain saloon on Sunday, prompting a police warrant order for Schwarts today.
Primitive garbled note recalls a Milgord resident Willian Feott aged 9? years. It mentions old age, a childlike fragment It Gant, and a vague life in Oregon and Pondieton with unclear details. The readable items suggest a death notice from a distant era with multiple garbled names and places.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.