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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1904
Page
4
Frivast Oregon independent newspaper notice outlines publication schedule and subscription rates. It lists offices in Portland and San Francisco with distribution points in Chicago and Washington, and notes standard post and delivery terms.
The East Oregonian reports on County Clerk Chamberlain contracting ballot printing to the paper, claiming savings for taxpayers and accusing the Tribune of conspiring. It lists bids: Tribune 4.75 white and 4.25 colored per 1000. East Oregonian 4.00 white and 9.00 colored per 1000, estimating about 12,000 of each. The piece praises local school unity and discusses sanitation questions, church practices, and Democratic platform boldness, ending with a fatal runaway in Waltsburg.
The poem Hymn of the West by Edmund Clarence Stedman appears with worshipful verses praising imperial progress and divine light at the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair. The piece intermingles religious imagery with nationhood and notes the proclamation of freedom and enterprise across land, rivers, and harvests. It also contains a block of Korean proverbs and a note on the desecration of Chief Moses’s grave on the Colville reservation.
A Lowell poem fragment reflects on freedom not lying in outward displays but in open hearts and minds guided by a Godward ideal. It laments petty concerns and social chains that bind souls and hinder progress, noting that true liberty is found in broad creeds and hopeful, forward looking lives.
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