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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1913
Page
4
A reader in East Oregonian congratulates a city representative and urges reform of street cleaning. The letter argues sprinkling before sweeping is cleaner and safer, noting water is plentiful. It blames higher city officials for the current method and mentions national momentum toward direct Oregon senatorial elections.
The piece urges rapid nationwide flood relief contributions wired to East Gregantin after flood and fire disasters. It rails at reactionary Oregon politicians and recalls a past view of the U S Senate as a rich man’s club, claiming reforms rose when Oregon found the key to access the door of progress.
Pendleton March 28 1913 editor East Oregonian letter urges rich region to donate grain flour potatoes fruits clothing and supplies for flooded east districts. proposes central organization perhaps Commercial association to handle aid with ready cash from contributors and goods. Emphasizes duty not charity and cites divine will.
James T. Brady started his New York law office in a basement once used by a cobbler. He was irritated by the cobbler’s customers and limited by the few resources available to him at the outset.
A Philadelphia Telegraph quips Brady’s sparse office as an Irishman notes the cobbler’s absence and jokes about selling only one item, Blockhead a playful exchange about Brady’s dwindling business.
A modest man named Smith or Brown is revealed as an ordinary worker who, on one evening, becomes an extraordinary figure in his suburb. The poem celebrates unseen everyday fathers whose quiet leadership sustains their families and communities, urging readers to acknowledge their value and humanity.
A terse newspaper fiction card notes a citizen scolding jurors for acquitting a murderer. The exchange questions jury honesty and sanity, reflecting public pressure and the trial atmosphere in a dramatic dialogue.
A weary traveler asks a policeman for directions amid Texas railroads. The officer, puzzled, removes his hat and confesses he knows Frisco and M.K.& T. lines but cannot place the Y.M.Co.A. abbreviation, leaving the seeker without guidance in a scene colored by railroad lore.
Frederick Townsend Martin denounces the dissipations of a married New York set and notes it costs money to join and brains to stay out of it highlighting social satire from the era.
There is more Catarrh in the section of the country than all other diseases put together and until recently was deemed incurable. The article promotes Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio as the only constitutional remedy, claiming it acts on the blood and mucous surfaces. It offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure and notes availability from druggists. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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