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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1912
Page
4
A blurred newspaper snippet lists subscription rates and a street address in Portland. The legible lines reference the United Press Association and a main street address while noting rate details in a fragmented fashion.
The East Oregonian endorses guardrails on U Rens measures urging moderation in the short ballot and single tax proposals. It criticizes his cabinet plan for packing many reforms into one bundle and calls for allowing discrimination among reforms to better acceptance and understanding.
The New York World praised California women voters for their conduct at the presidential primary. The piece noted their knowledge of exercising the franchise calmed masculine fears on this point.
The World’s stance against Roosevelt and Champ Clark is noted as it describes California women casting ballots without discomfort while voting beside men. It cites census figures for 1910 showing land in farms and crop values, with corn leading acreage and hay, cotton, wheat, and oats following in value.
The latest San Diego news reports six I W W gunmen detected in the city aiming to kill local officials. The piece notes revenge after vigilante outrages and urges authorities to handle the S W W threat, citing mistreatment of Dr. Reitman as the L W Ws’ stated excuse.
Residents of western Oregon show active interest in equal suffrage with Rebekah lodge members attending the grand lodge meeting in Pendleton. Campaign reports highlight donations and volunteers, while Portland and Pendleton papers publish suffrage notes and views to boost publicity and recruit workers.
Washington reports that the Thirteenth Census data show US population rose 21 percent between 1899 and 1909 while per capita cereal output fell from 65.4 to 48.1 bushels. Despite a slightly larger harvest, cereal crop value in 1909 jumped about 1.18 billion dollars, or 79.8 percent, compared with 1899.
James Beauchamp Clark, later known as Champ Clark, shares how his nickname evolved from James B. Clark to Beauchamp Clark and finally to Champ Clark. He notes the value of advertising his distinctive name, recounting how post offices mixed up letters and how colleagues shortened it.
The dictograph, first built for crime catching, is now used to broadcast revival meetings in 1909 Philadelphia to 16,000 listeners. It also lets observers study Mt. Vesuvius activity, hear animal sounds, monitor rehearsals, and listen to congressional debates from distant offices.
A humorous exchange features Mr Staylate and Mrs Mugging joking about repetition, clove chewing, a brief stay, odors, taking luncheon, spending money, and a smirk as Barkley hints at borrowing. The fragment reads as a light, informal domestic vignette from the Tribune.
A narrator recalls a fallen soldier hailed as victorious. The scene shifts from winter sunset to a forward march, with a bugle call and no sobs, while the sun rests on the flag. The speaker feels the hero’s whisper that he achieved victory, not death, as Alice E. Allen signs in May Lippincott's.
A Chicago Tribune exchange recalls a near disaster as a levee breaches prompt swift retreat to higher ground. One speaker notes survival amid exhaustion while joking about “high water pants” in a brief, wry remark.
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