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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
5
The paper argues farmers hold the county's wealth, urging intensified farming across larger tracts with alfalfa, orchards, and gardens from Pendleton toward Athena. It warns indolence slows growth, notes population declines, and predicts future value if diversified, efficient farming becomes widespread.
A drifting meditation on self surveillance and fear. The verse contrasts outer praise with inner baldness that admits fear, using stark imagery to reveal the tension between public admiration and private vulnerability.
The executive committee of a Portland republican club voted nine to four to oppose Governor Chamberlain for senator, labeling Statement No 1 a bunko game. Critics note the faction lacks true Republicans and merges machine politics with a claimed commitment to honor. The East Oregonian predicts Chamberlain’s election by legislature, while denouncing alleged dishonest tactics and political robbery if defeated.
The article notes miles of land between Pendleton and Athena suitable for intensified farming and identifies numerous ranches along Wild Horse creek where wheat farming dominates due to past profits. It argues future farming changes will benefit farmers, though many remain resistant to new methods because current earnings are satisfactory.
Heppner reports the Oregon woolgrowers state convention unanimously opposed a resolution against Governor Chamberlain becoming senator. They declined to request breaking pledges, noting legislators elect are bound to honor Chamberlain’s election. The wool industry’s fate hinges on tariff changes and eastern special interests.
In the northwest at this time the central issue is the question of the collegiate football championship. Once that matter is settled all other problems should wait in respectful silence.
The Idaho suspect nicknamed a farmer is described as a pericherino and appears to be a New York financier who has moved westward amid a tangle of horse dealing intrigue.
A fragment notes a young boy described as three years old facing a difficult task aboard a Chinese dragon. The tone implies a risky enterprise requiring adult strength, highlighting a contrast between a child and a demanding ride.
A concise line reports that Umatilla county currently lacks arid land conditions in today’s climate or land status.
A poem-like excerpt from the Allanta Constitution describes Thanksgiving preparations and communal meals. It invites Mister Possum to visit at dawn, mentioning a big oak fire, a living place, hanging up a hat, combing hair, washing face, and saying grace in the gray of morning. The colloquial rural voice evokes homey appetite and fellowship.
Miss Ethel Barrymore quips about the Salome dance at a New York dinner. She notes one dancer is defended by an admirer who jokes about a ring and the dancer’s figure. The actress’s playful reproach ends with a wry exchange.
The speaker, a mother, watches the world as her child, sharing its sorrows and fears. She comforts the world in its night, but it wanders, missteps, and toys break as she weeps with understanding. The poem ends with the enduring pity in a mother’s heart for the world.
A garbled catalog of racing records and times from various years including Electric locomotive 27 seconds and 190%, Automobile 28% seconds 1998, Steam locomotive $2 seconds 1895, Motor paced cycle 1 minute 61-f seconds 1904, unpaced bicycle 1 minute 49 3 5 seconds 1904, Raining horse 1 minute 35% secs eye, Dan Puchz horse 1 minute 65 seconds 1906, Trotting horse 1 minute 68% .ee otis 1405, Man skating 2 minutes 36 seconds 1596, Man running 4 minutes 1234 seconds 1887, Mary walking 6 minutes 23 seconds 1897 Metropolitan.
National Paper Trade association and United Typothetae of America push to end government printing of stamped envelopes. Resolutions praise editors and small country papers, urging government to stop stamping duties. committee led by Samuel Reese, Hyron Adams, and John W. Raeder to coordinate efforts nationwide.
Albert Humphrey a longshoreman fell from a trestle at the Great Northern docks in Interbay Seattle Monday night and disappeared into the bay with body not recovered.
The text notes a large year over year increase in coal output with anthracite and bituminous totals surpassing 480,360,000 short tons in 1907. It explains transporting this product would require 320,900 trains of 30 cars each, each 50 tons, whose combined length would wrap two and three quarters times around the world at the equator.
Frederick W. Chipman new president of the American Bar Association spoke at a St Louis dinner. He quipped about evidence and its quirks, comparing it to a hammock scene where a girl recounts a kiss and counts seven before waking, highlighting the playful side of legal misinterpretation.
All members of Reno Post G A F are to be photographed for an exhibit at the city entertainment from November 20 to December 2. Each portrait will include a short life sketch and a 1861 to 1865 war record, organized under J E Chirk. Clark is pushing to photograph all members by November 16 to complete the exhibit. Mike Butler of the Butte fire department is charged with arson at the Jewel saloon in the redlight district.
Our Winona Wagons and Hacks and Rex Bugglea are built to stand service. Let us show you our Fairbanks M arge Engines and Scales the beast. We solicit wagon repairing machine work and carriage painting. Charges are moderate and only skilled workmen are employed.
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