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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1905
Page
4
The Oregonian announces subscription prices by mail and in paper formats, listing various durations and rates. It notes newsstand locations in Portland and mentions a notice to advertisers about deadlines and copy submission times. The document then contains a lengthy, impassioned editorial passage criticizing liquor licenses, dive keepers, and the social harms they allege, urging action to curb depravity and uphold civilization.
Fragmentary verse appears as a dated, nonsensical line with misspellings and stray punctuation. The text mentions tuning a lubricant with a Joy ane eye and references a tale of tomorrow, armor, and moments dead, concluding with an attribution to tracy EK. Baker.
The city council should not award the street sprinkling contract to Walter Weile a councilman with the highest bid and alleged graft history. Citizens demand a thorough investigation of street sprinkling and improvements, noting monthly costs around $500 and ensuring taxpayers are informed and protected from favoritism.
A rum-soaked episode on Railroad Street drew drunken Indians, fights, and profanity as white youths watched. The piece condemns whiskey peddlers and dive owners for undermining government efforts to civilize and protect homes, urging decisive action to end liquor sales to Indians.
The northwest celebrates two historic openings this week the Lewla andl lack fair and the Portage Road with a Celilo ceremony. Pioneers of the Ape river movement gather on Celilo wharf as a river highway reaches the sea, a permanent blessing long sought by settlers and patriots. Winds of progress stir the region as promises and politics recede before the achievement of a vital link to the sea.
Poem praising workingmen whose labor shapes land and cities. It extols honest toil over royal or warrior fame, blessing those who dig, build, and drive commerce.
The obituary says Joseph Jefferson recalls an embarrassing moment in the Milla Building on Wall Street when a stout man with a beard greeted him and claimed to be General Grant. Jefferson fled to the street to avoid making a social error. Also reported is Miss Lizzie Phillips of Eugene who burned hands and arms cleaning gloves with gasoline.
A vintage testimonial ad from Springfield Ohio and Wheeling West Virginia promotes S S S as a blood purifier and tonic. It claims relief from headaches indigestion liver trouble and skin eruptions and urges readers to consider the product for spring health. Names Mrs George Wiegel and John Co Stein appear with addresses.
The New York World argues that aggressive corporate interests and monopolies killed competition in the press. It cites James J. Hill of Northwick Securities and a financier’s death as part of a broader critique. The piece suggests selling to a buyer who would defend corporate interests would preserve the status quo, while restructuring could create fewer, stronger outlets.
A Philadelphia Bulletin note explains a tombstone censor who blocks blasphemous or defamatory inscriptions in cemeteries. Examples include a killed engineer blamed on his masters, a prizefighter’s tomb with trophies, a widow accusing a doctor, and other sharp epitaphs. Nearby Venus Valley farmer William Jostes taps artesian water by drilling into a damp hill hidden underground.
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