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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1905
Page
4
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Laura Clay quotes Frances Willard’s belief that women should be elevated to raise healthy virtuous children and possess political power to improve conditions. Willard urged mothers gain a voice in laws, asking, “give them power to protect life’s treacherous highway” for those they love.
A Morning Oregonian urged revoking licenses after saloon row beyond Portland street entrances. The East Oregonian boasted April best ad month, noting ads boosted merchant trade. Oregon Daily Journal faced Nan Patterson coverage with shifting moral framing. The Weston Athena parents’ party intoxication incident near a Main Street saloon sparked calls to curb youth access. Pendleton fears of “cyclone cursed” east influx. call for rural revival, small farms, roads, schools. urge residents to populate Oregon's rural areas to sustain the state’s best era ahead.
The scene along the Portland route features numerous saloons and billboards advertising whiskeys such as Hisner's Whiskey Gyrus Noble Henry Milter's choice White and red whiskey Woodbine The Palace Saloon and several others including The Louvre Idle Hour and Sullivan's Saloon. Missouri resident wonders where Portlanders get all their whiskey.
The article envisions rapid Umatilla county development with new rail cars on the Harriman lines between Pendleton Dayton and Portland area. It notes potential electric service from Freewater to Walla Walla and an Oregon federal judgeship appointment likely to be influenced by entrenched politics. Joseph Folk condemns law breaking among respectable classes as a national danger. Anarchy is blamed more by the law breaking rich than the conspiratorial poor.
The article cites the American edition of Geographical View of the World (New York, 1826) describing Japan's population estimates of 15 to 26 million and praising the Japanese as nervous, vigorous people with European-like features except for the Tartars eye. It notes fair complexions among higher classes and healthful bloom, and remarks on potential high civilization despite limited external aids.
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