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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1907
Page
4
Independent Pendleton newspaper listing subscription prices for daily and weekly editions with terms for one year six months three months and four months by mail includes postal details and contact note. Published notices show postal handling and second class matter status.
Orison Swett Marden argues that absolute sincerity grants true strength. Living as a perpetual lie weakens will and limits power, while genuine character removes internal conflict and fortifies conduct.
A united Oregon delegation travels to Washington to push progressive reforms. The state enjoys prosperity from reclamation, river improvements, and navigation expansion as thousands of new settlers arrive. Lawmakers anticipate harmony and a strong, coordinated effort for Oregon's best interests in the upcoming session.
The region harvested the largest crop in its history at great cost with high wages and heavy spending. Banks face cash shortages until harvest returns arrive, but prosperity remains. Citizens urged to remain patient, confident, and orderly to protect institutions and await market inflows.
A columnist compares Wall Street alarmists to lone coyotes howling on a wintry night. He argues that a single operator can provoke widespread fear with loud calamity rhetoric, creating the illusion of a market panic despite only one or few traders impacting sentiment.
A calm defense of President investigations is offered, noting few are alarmed by Wall Street noise. The speaker argues coyotes can bark loudly but pose no real danger, urging composure amid inquiries and public scrutiny.
The text argues that Democratic leaders like John Sharp Williams should back President Roosevelt's trust regulation, accusing Williams of politicking and urging both parties to unite behind regulation to curb monopolies and "criminal combinations" without regard to party. It calls for focus on bedrock principles over partisan names.
A 1908 Oregon initiative seeks proportional representation to seat lawmakers by voting strength. The plan would empower all parties including prohibitionists socialists and democrats to gain seats in proportion to votes while preserving majority rule and popular government principles.
Report on numerous heavy property transactions in Umatilla county last week notes activity ongoing despite the legal holiday statewide. The recap highlights multiple buyers sellers and ordinances involved in the week’s real estate deals.
Dr Weir Mitchell published his first novel at 53 and at 78 remains active in writing. The Red City is billed as the year’s great Century series. In 25 years he issued 21 volumes plus magazine stories treatises papers and poems, a rebuke to Dr Osjer.
A reflective piece notes how easy it is to fault others and that many people spend much of their spare time doing so. It highlights a common habit of judgment rather than constructive effort.
The Brooklyn Eagle recounts Zelm's eerie tale of Chopin composing the famous March Funebre. In a studio a skeleton, a piano, and Chopin's swoon amid a haunting mood are described as the artist claims the march would live forever.
A youth wanders through bloom and shade to a gate of dreams and returns with no earthly tale. He gained more than gold, a millionfold in value, as the momentinscribed by the vision lingers in memory and spirit.
A reflective verse urges that concealing a troubling secret or wrongdoing is wise. It warns that exposing a leader's faults or a hidden skeleton could bring shame, sorrow, and lasting distress. The poem favors secrecy to preserve joy and prevent public alarm.
A Swiss naturalist reports birds, notably snipe, nursing wounds. Observations include beak and feather dressings, feather splints, and even lifting broken leg fragments to align them with a feather bandage. The account notes a snipe with a broken leg flew away, later found holding fragments in place with feathers.
A dispatch reports the words In God We Trust will be left off all denominations of U S money as the St Gaudens ten dollar gold coins are issued under presidential direction. Treasury officials could not confirm who directed the change.
The text states the department bears no responsibility for the coin design change beyond executing the president’s orders. It clarifies that the alteration was directed by the executive, not caused by the department’s actions or policy. The emphasis is on compliance rather than initiative.
A Boston club man married a Wellesley girl whose strengths include cooking. He finds her fatigued and learns she bought a rabbit, but has spent the whole day preparing it and has not yet picked it. The lighthearted anecdote from the Exchange underscores domestic humor.
A letter to the editor recalls a friend’s death and asks for an obituary notice to honor the deceased. The correspondent notes the deceased had many friends who would welcome public word of the passing. The piece reflects editorial responsiveness to reader requests in a leading paper.
The advertiser who studies the adverting columns of the leading papers will learn more than what the advertising expert can tell him.
The Klamath Falls Herald notes that the Hibernian bank of San Francisco could not obtain funds from the U S sub-treasury despite idle vaults, while Secretary Cortelyou deposits millions of government money in favored New York banks using government bonds as security to aid Wall Street amid reckless speculation and misuse of trust funds.
The engagement of Miss Eleanora Crawford, eldest daughter of Marion Crawford, the novelist, to Pietro Rocca is announced. The wedding will be in January at Sorrento where the Crawfords reside. Miss Crawford debuted at the king of Italy’s ball on New Year’s Eve 1904 and just returned to Italy after visiting her aunt, Mrs. Hugh Fraser, a New York novelist. Her mother was Miss Elizabeth Berdan, daughter of the Berdan who invented the percussion cap.
A critic labels a discussion with a starving man about occasional fasting as a waste of time, arguing practical needs outweigh theoretical benefits and urging focus on immediate relief.
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