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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1905
Page
4
Fragmented OCR lists a newspaper notice from a Greek area weekly, detailing advertising deadlines and mail subscriptions. The document mentions Pendleton Post Office, and procedures for submitting advertising copy by the preceding day deadline at 4:43 p.m.
The piece argues against the belief that men possess fixed traits. It compares people to rivers, saying water is constant yet rivers vary in course and character. Each person bears different certainties of qualities, sometimes one attribute dominates, sometimes another, as illustrated in the tale "Resurrection."
The East Oregonian selects the city’s crown achievement for 1905 as the construction and outfitting of three modern public school buildings with 20 rooms, ventilating and heating improvements, serving nearly 2000 students and signaling a lasting advertisement for growth. Other gains in commerce, agriculture, and banking are noted but judged secondary to the school triumph.
Citizens face compulsory purchase of part of The Dallow Military Wagon road land grant by Booth Kelley Lumber Co for 900000 to fund Kinmath irrigation. Critics decry government favors and corrupt deals enabling private sale of people’s land before irrigation work can proceed.
Government bemoans loss of water sources to private corporations and individuals who set terms for the entire municipality. Citizens struggle to secure domestic water as cities grow. They urge protest against privatization of public privileges and land donations. Government faulted for not building infrastructure and for giving land away, resulting in double injustice to the people.
The piece contrasts Andrew Carnegie’s stance against college training with the value of higher education for business and civilization. It argues that educated minds advance society, while greed in commerce harms progress, and it notes Jorgen Monim’s failed registration for city council amid ongoing municipal questions.
A Memphis News-Sentinel excerpt critiques religious figures denouncing child scarcity and wealth gaps. It notes it would not target royalty or the poor, suggesting class bias in moral appeals and referencing colonial child migration debates. The piece satirizes social hypocrisy among the well to do.
A Montreal dock laborer Pierre Dalbec wins the eating championship by feats such as four boiled eggs in 20 minutes and a day of 176 goblets of beer, plus a staggering single evening of meat and bread. The same period sees 169 new engines added to the Erie railroad equipment.
The Mile Rock lighthouse project in San Francisco Bay faced extreme danger. Workers built a 42 foot high steel cylinder foundation on a jagged rock 1 mile from the Cliff House, using 1200 barrels of cement and 60 tons of steel plates. The beacon rises above mean sea level after years of perilous navigation work.
A Philadelphia farmer named Alston read a lawyer's introduction letter, misread a line about plucking him heavily, and resolved never to trust lawyers again. The anecdote, relayed by a Washington representative, illustrates caution in legal introductions with rural wit.
The New York World reports numerous fatalities and disfigurements from Tuesday's election as well as a broad note on blindness in the United States. It cites political figures in New York Brooklyn Queens New Jersey Philadelphia Maryland and Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. It notes 80,000 blind persons in the U S with 66,000 becoming blind after adulthood and 4600 blind children in schools.
A promotional note urges women to use Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters during monthly ailments to strengthen organs and improve overall function. The tone mirrors early 20th century patent medicine ads, stressing benefits and regular use by females experiencing disturbances tied to monthly cycles.
Hundreds of women testify to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as effective for backache cramps vomiting dizziness costiveness or indigestion. Try a bottle.
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