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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1912
Page
4
Pendleton Oregon notices list subscription rates and mailing terms for periodicals. Rates are given for mail and carrier delivery across terms from one month to one year, with pricing fragments shown for several options.
In California Roosevelt dominates and La Follette shows a small vote. Clark leads among Democrats but Wilson gains in South Carolina Maryland and Texas. Roosevelt’s surge is aided by funds and appeal, while Wilson and Clark compete for the Democratic standard bearer. Ohio's result looms as a key factor in delegate alignments.
Report notes parties prepare to nominate their candidate, with action looming just before the four minute mark to carry Democratic colors. No clear names are confirmed in readable text.
The article urges swift control of flies citing Connecticut station data showing millions of germs on a single fly and warning that delaying kills risks fires and disease. It notes May as the best time to act, promotes wire-screen club methods, and frames Pendleton as facing a real anti-fly campaign amid warm, dusty conditions.
Northwest railroad representatives announce generous arrangements and reduced fair tickets for Round-up visitors reaching Ashland, Missoula, and Pendleton. Tickets sold on days allowing travelers to arrive on any Round-up day, aiming to boost attendance after last year’s record crowds.
Three Chico California grocers were poisoned after eating toad stools they believed were mushrooms. It is feared they may die. A simple preventive tip is to eat potatoes instead.
The statement suggests that if the government revokes the By ers permit the city could gain authority or options to proceed with its plans. Details on who By ers are or what actions follow are not provided.
A proposal outlines storing more water for summer use to allow water to rise above the millrace head rather than taking the leavings. It notes Buckareps were dumped but scavenged for some time, and warns such behavior should not recur frequently.
The Idaho supreme court has affirmed a 7,134 bond issue with a 25.05 valuation voted by Black Canyon irrigation district settlers. Bonds will be immediately sold to bonding houses eager to handle them as per the Irrigation Age April 1912 report. O. D. Teel notes the district’s organization mirrors other western irrigation districts and expects easy disposal of bonds.
Prof Rosing of the Technological Institute of St. Petersburg has demonstrated sending light over a wire with electricity. The apparatus is in infancy yet small objects are visible. experts foresee soon speaking to a person over the telephone using this technology.
A resident, Mrs J G Kendrick, recounts severe womanly troubles and a hospital operation with no relief until Cardui was tried. She claims rapid improvement, now able to work and free of pain, asserting Cardui’s long success of over 60 years for women’s ailments. The ad urges others to write for the Ladies Advisory Dept. of a tonic company.
A speculative look at future telephone use predicting improved devices that convert sound to electric signals, send them via wires, and recreate light and vision at distant receivers, likening it to early ideas of video telephony. It notes electricity and light travel speeds and asks readers to consider eventual near-term visual communication over wires.
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