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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1906
Page
5
A half column editorial lauds Pendleton spirit for taking action not just talking. It highlights the Commercial Association, local legislators meeting, an excursion to Walla Walla and Weston, and a banquet with a mock session, urging broader citizen participation and stronger patronage of the association.
The Fast Oregonian urges keeping the paving plant to extend Alta Webb Cottonwood Court Witter and nearby streets. It argues paving raises property values, spurs growth, and has transformed Pendleton into having the only paved streets in Oregon outside Portland. Keep the plant at work for another year.
A plea from Satie urges Oregon to appropriate at least 100000 for an Oregon building and exhibit at Seattle Yukon exposition in 1909. He argues reciprocity with Washington on portage road and Columbia river improvements should justify Oregon paying costs while Washington and Idaho gain benefits. Oregon has spent over 300000 on the portage road. reciprocity between states is proposed to share benefits.
Umatilla County farmers chase land for apples arguing Mood river and White Salmon tracts rival Hood River. Properly set young orchards in Umatilla can yield similar returns, with many acres suited to apples and strong transport links inland from the Pacific Northwest. Also notes Herman Burgtorf’s death in Salem asylum and a Brater woolen factory steam cylinder explosion in Webster Massachusetts injuring several.
The United States Supreme Court upheld a $1000 fine against Mayor Rose of Kansas City for assuming the mayoral office after depostion on liquor enforcement charges. The ruling keeps the state court sentence in effect. costs may exceed $500, with possible receipts from supporters aiding payment. The contempt fine reflects violating the court mandate by resuming office. The funds would go to the state school fund as directed.
Hon T H Bartlett spoke on the History of the Public Lands of the United States at the Normal College Assembly. The talk traced the surge of land to public domain, early surveys, township division, and key acts including the May 20, 1864 Notestonend act shaping home building and forestry policy, noting no debt to Andrew Jackson.
The article mentions Senator Merguit of Alabama being admitted to the early 2845 and notes ambitions of Vice President Mairbinke to unite Northern and Southern Metrmedist churches in Baltimore. It cites Governor Deneen of Tineke with friends who see him as a potential dark horse for presidential nomination, and references President Roosevelt studying Gielic. Henry B F McFarland and Henry L West head Washington’s municipal commission, former newspaper men. George RR Peck, St Paul road general counsel, refused a Senate seat once.
Poem paraphrase reflecting on sorrow and joy as intertwined. Lines from Filla Wheeler Wilcox emphasize that hardship deepens appreciation and that the soul’s rare harmonies arise from life’s minor strains through craving, hunger, and strife.
An advertisement style piece argues that catarrh of the kidneys is often neglected and misread as minor. It cites a veteran’s trial with Peruna as a cure, claims kidneys may suffer Bright's Disease or diabetes if untreated, and urges readers to take Peruna to reach the source of the problem.
A brief poetic excerpt from S. E. Kiser published in the Chicago Record Herald. The speaker laments memory fading as study continues, noting the joy of winning versus the tendency to forget the learned lessons. The piece reflects on education, memory, and the bittersweet nature of achievement.
A. M. Slocum sold four quarter sections of grazing land located on upper Willow Creek to McCullough Bros for 710,000. The timber on the land was not included in the deal, as Slocum retains it for personal use or holds two local sawmills.
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