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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1903
Page
4
A poetic reflection on a strong world with hopeful destiny. The speaker contemplates a future age watched by poets prophets and sages. While many wait for that promised time to arrive, they overlook the good time present today.
Russia’s rail project in Manchuria prompts calls to curb immigration and Italian crime links. The piece cites Mafia violence and warns of flood of immigrants. Colonel W H Dewey, Idaho pioneer, built a fortune via mining and hotels in Silver City and Nampa, shaping state development hopes.
The proposal argues for reopening wholesale houses in Baker City to direct handling of interior mining and stock-raising areas. It notes current shipments pass through Baker on the way to Portland, with freight costs retained by Portland wholesalers. A Baker City operation could cut costs, capture profits, and boost Pendleton’s interior trade, which is already heavier and growing each year.
The Portland Board of Trade voices support for the portage road, urging against efforts to keep Eastern Oregon isolated by high freight rates. It argues Portland would gain as a major beneficiary, while Willamette Valley petitions for a referendum are criticized as shortsighted. The piece emphasizes regional unity, improved transport, and lower delivery costs for interior markets.
Leopold de Rottchild spoke at the Newspaper Press fund meeting in London about the origin of Waterloo news. He recounted how the first report reached his grandfather through a small sheet reading Creat Victory of the Magnah at Am sterdam. His ancestor’s ships carried the latest papers to captains who shared word with the treasury and Lord Liverpool.
A woman recalls her evolving criteria for a life partner from ages seventeen to twenty five. She seeks ardor, tall broad shoulders, handsome looks, devoted action, and a daring heart capable of sacrifice, with evolving wishes for bravery, gentleness, and worldly knowledge.
The fragment notes an elderly woman at 80 asserting she wants a wealthy man and would accept additional traits if money is present, while earlier at 36 she expressed a simple desire for a man. The passage reflects shifting expectations and headlines Life magazine coverage.
Poem fragment recalling Mary asleep beside a murmuring stream in Afton. Vivid natural imagery with shepherd and brook, dreamlike hillside, primroses and birk shades. Reverent lines praise flow of river and quiet countryside as seen by a lover.
A promotional notice extols Prof W A Sheldon as a modern occult healer who can read lives and solve personal and financial troubles. It invites businesspeople, wives, lovers, and travelers to consult him at 716 Gordon Street, promising cures for chronic illnesses and relationship woes with a no cure no pay motto.
A dated health quip from an exchange mocks overbearing cautions by listing extreme cause and effect pairs. It playfully suggests nothing to eat or drink or even breathe to stay perfectly healthy, implying absurdities of universal purity beliefs.
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