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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1913
Page
4
The article discusses Pendleton infrastructure and street flushing tanks as a modern method to keep streets clean during summer, weighing the city building its own wagon if manufacturers block their tanks. It mentions Mr Schwab and a humor note about a theater miscue.
Knowledge and wisdom diverge as Cowper notes that knowledge is a wealth of facts from others while wisdom is the application of such thoughts in one’s own mind. Knowledge sits heavy with unrefined material, whereas wisdom shapes and fits ideas smoothly. Knowledge boasts of learning, but wisdom remains humble in its limits.
A college lecturer teaches practical domestic science to Am the People and students, arguing schools must connect with social and industrial life. The piece critiques Progressives and Hanna Munsey backing, praising reformers who quit the movement. Dayton plans a Wilbur Wright statue misinterpreting the aviator, while other notes mock artistic tributes and comment on tariffs, wool prices, the Japanese canal, and weather affecting straw hats.
A tale about Charles M Schwab has been circulating on Wall Street with brokerage houses weighing its implications. The report notes heightened interest among investors and market observers as Schwab’s involvement inspires speculation.
Quote heavy reflection on social pretensions and the humor of human certainty. The piece muses on how success comes from improving small things and how platonic love shifts to tragedy for wives. It ends with Lip pincott noting every family tree is equally old.
In a backroom exchange, She expresses gratitude for a proposal but declines. He worries his status compared to Kitty Cobb and the line of suitors, while Knicker questions Jones over job ambition and image. Booker notes Jones fears he won’t appear formidable enough if he refuses.
A witty exchange shows a debtor vowing to marry a rich widow next week as a creditor jokes about congratulating him. The playful dialogue captures a lighthearted moment between the two men.
The piece recalls a professor predicting steel price cuts would curb demand, then notes competition forced reductions. It contrasts protectionist doubt with current insights, shifts to gum mining profits in spruce trees, detailing Boston prices and seasonal income for gumdigging as a demanding but appealing sport.
In New Hampshire logging camps the activity known as gumming drew campers to the snow broken woods. Hunters used snow shoes and a six to nine foot pole with a galvanized square tin cup at the end, the edges sharpened to loosen gum from trees beyond reach.
Joseph Jefferson and Wilton Lackaye shared a season in the same company. Jefferson enjoyed addressing the audience after curtain calls, while Lackaye argued actors should stay in character. One night Jefferson asked Lackaye how he did, and Lackaye replied the speech contained the usual blunder of shaking hands with each audience member.
A clipped dialogue fragment shows Jefferson mocking a claim and Lickayve countering with a retort about an improbable face. April Lippincott and John Drew’s names appear in the garbled lines, suggesting a theatrical context or private quarrel report.
A fragment from the Hoston Transcript shows Purethought and He-Thats all right debating papal consent with She-But Jack remarking that new clothes will be ruined if consent is pursued.
Dr Max Starkloff health commissioner shows two friends at his boat club a Swiss lever watch that can chime the time. The wager misfires when he reveals he is wearing an inferior watch and jokes the day is dull.
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