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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1909
Page
4
The East Oregonian, Pendleton Oregon daily and weekly, lists subscription rates by mail and carrier, with various durations and pricing. It notes distribution channels, agency offices, and United Press Association membership, and includes postal designation as second class mail matter.
A poetic fragment honors Hyacinth Tulip and Crocus in springtime imagery. Frank Dempsey Sherman invokes Crimson white and blue and three graces to frame a dreamlike renewal.
The Oregonian notes 1500 at Central Point and 3600 at Medford welcomed the O A C Southern Pacific demonstration train. Eastern Oregon wheat barons resist new methods while Willamette Valley accessors embrace change. The editorial urges faster adoption of improved farming methods to keep pace with neighbors.
Umatilla County enters a period of advancement with arid lands in the west being reclaimed and settlers sought. Pilot Rock range land is being broken while eastern areas are brought under closer cultivation. Wheat regions around Pendleton Athena Weston and Helix see a shift toward smaller tracts as population growth is anticipated.
County seeks a strong active publicity organization to spread information about resources and support development in all regions. Pendleton business leaders pledge cooperation and partial funding, asking other areas to share costs. Come Friday to join West End East End Pilot Rock Athena Weston Helix and Adams in forming a county bureau for mutual advancement.
A Portland boy’s bath tub hazing incident prompts broad clamor but the author argues university discipline and student character are strong. Hazing is condemned, yet minor pranks and moderate student punishment are seen as natural and sometimes beneficial for victims, not a defense of abuse.
The Second Oregon volunteers led by Colonel Summers pierced Filipino lines at Malabon ten years ago, driving insurgents from the city. Oregon veterans recall the battle with pride as foreign attaches saluted the American volunteers for their conduct and heroism.
Oregon normal school students ask to finish courses in Washington normals but must pay tuition or commit to three years teaching in Washington. Other states will not educate Oregon youths. this is Oregon’s duty.
A short moral note warns that fist fighting is acceptable only for small boys, while adults should not settle differences through physical blows.
In a Detroit Free Press item a speaker recalls a former lover who was attentive and polite, contrasting him with a current partner. She notes the past suitor would listen and respond to questions, never whistle at her, and kept faults hidden, implying she might have married him instead of her husband.
A woman with an account at Citizen's Savings and Trust was told by telephone she overdrew her account by 15 dollars after written checks. She thanked the cashier, promised to fix it, and sent a 15 dollar check to cover the overdraft.
A Saturday Evening Post poem laments leaving the mountains and prairie air. The speaker feels drawn by the wild freedom of home and nature, yearning to return to that own place despite present stress and distant horizons.
A compact reflection on work with Carlyle’s insistence that finding one’s work grants purposeful blessing. It portrays labor as a river cleansing life, elevating the worker’s inner force, nobility, and knowledge, awakening self-knowledge as work commences. The text emphasizes divine origin of effort and the moral uplift from proper toil.
In a staged performance for an orphan asylum’s inmates a magician named Keller invited a sedate girl to inspect a handkerchief. He challenged her to blow on it to release candy, and the child literally blew on the fabric causing laughter among the audience.
The piece traces skating to prehistoric Northern Europe, notes William Fits Stephen referencing it in London in the 1100s, and credits exiles with Charles II from Holland for popularizing the sport. It cites Pepys in 1662 observing skaters in a frost and the Duke of York joining in, despite dangerous ice.
A fragment refers to a mile that carries four men and a mortgage in a general sense. No concrete event, date, or proper nouns are readable to anchor a full report.
A piece cites Dr Clouston and Dr Saleoby arguing alcohol harms the growing brain and risks mental and nervous diseases. It warns certain groups including mothers to be, those in trusted positions, and creative, productive individuals that temperance is essential while acknowledging some can use alcohol moderately.
An old Southern Black man suffers a long illness treated by Black doctors without success. A white physician uses a tongue thermometer then witnesses a runaway buggy crash. He saves the injured woman and child by placing them in his carriage and taking them to his office for repairs.
A physician recalling his colored patient returns to the home to find the man lying on his back with a thermometer under his tongue. The patient exclaims that the treatment has done him the most good of anything he has ever taken.
Fragmentary notes mention freshmen with caps on their heads and a reference to vacuum pressure linked to Cornell, plus a phrase about a widow. The readable text suggests a campus context with unclear details and no clear event or outcome.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a universal kidney remedy. It claims benefits for rheumatism back and kidney pain and urges readers to buy fifty cent and one dollar bottles or request a free sample by mail from Binghamton New York.
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