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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1903
Page
5
The Oregonian advertises subscription rates including mail and carrier options, detailing three months and one year terms. It lists News Stands at Hotel Perkins and locations in Portland, with bureaus and contacts for security and distribution information.
A widow mother mourns her sixteen year old son who died in battle without knowing if he wore blue or gray. She places a snowy wreath on the Unknown Dead grave and prays his sacrifice transcends faction as a nation remembers.
East Oregon irrigationists rally to back a semi annual convention to be held in Baker City amid political pressure and local editorials. Baker County sent thirteen delegates to Portland for the last statewide gathering and now seeks a special route to renew the session with Pendleton as the next annual site. Local papers criticize delays and urge unity to secure government support and regional representation.
A sweeping critique targets Bremerton for inviting vice and saloons as a rebuke to the federal government and a warning that the navy department may relocate headquarters. The piece also mentions a Portello scene with five hundred Fort Hall Indians meeting the president’s train and a controversial aside about Tolstoy and Jewish guilt. It closes with a poem fragment reflecting solemn resolve.
The county association and local merchants urge moving the irrigation convention to Baker City as a strong advertisement to secure government irrigation funds. The sentiment among observers favors Baker City for the event and calls for timely action by the association or the community if the group shows little interest.
London authority Dr D W Golingridge reports typhoid bacteria in Thames fisheries including estuary areas and oyster beds where a large share of oysters tested were infected. A ban is placed on whitebait shrimp eel and cockles as sewage contamination detected up to 60 miles from London is noted.
Fred Lockley, writing from Missoula, Mont, warns that rising populations, polluted seas and rivers, inadequate water supplies, and building booms endanger public health and moral conditions. He cites oysters linked to illness, Thames drainage issues, and massive urban congestion as nature’s protest against rapid growth.
An essay argues American college training better fits journalism than other fields except teaching. It links journalism to education, language skill, truth seeking, and precise analysis, citing Albert Shaw. A May news-verse poem celebrates veterans and the rising generation with reflections on war's cost and memory.
The advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription to relieve menstrual pain and other female illnesses. It claims relief from regularity issues, weakening drains, inflammation, and cures for various "womanly" diseases, inviting women to write for private consultation and prescribing his Pleasant Pellets for liver sluggishness.
Poetic memorial verses honor fallen soldiers with reverence. The piece praises Columbia as Empress of the West and invokes a mother’s smile while families kneel and pray. It reflects a community commemorating sacrifice on Memorial Day and lifting a banner of remembrance.
The Atlanta Constitution notes a nostalgic verse praising summer and blossoms with lines about harvest in a Benton county shed. A lumber flow project moves lumber by a new flume from Benton County Lumber Company to Philomath, six and a quarter miles long, carrying 26,000 feet per hour, while truck work on the Tacoma Eastern railway continues.
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