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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1912
Page
4
A long syndicated summary notes convictions in a Rosenthal murder case amid threats to court personnel. It discusses suffrage opposition in Missouri and presses for equal suffrage, framing opposition as vitality in reform. Also questions about Schrank's sanity and Dr. Cook's veracity are raised, reflecting wider judicial and public discourse.
A lyrical piece addresses a figure described as gray and sunlit, urging movement and display. The speaker calls the subject a vixen of the dawn, urging her to show others how she gleams between frost touched roses as days unroll.
The East Oregonian endorses Judge Lowell's aims to curb initiative abuse but questions the practicality of limiting on ballot measures. It advocates strengthening legislature to reduce reliance on initiative and referenda, arguing a capable legislature would restore public trust and curb manipulation by well funded committees. The piece notes spending too much can backfire politically. It cites Harry Lane’s election as proof.
In Elizabethan England a revival of shorthand emerged with Tim Brigit’s English system in 1588, followed by Bales in 1690 and Willis in 1602 who devised alphabetic methods. The debate remains whether Bright or Willis influenced Shakespearean transcripts, with most plays first captured in shorthand and later printed from reporters’ notes. Samuel Pepys and Charles II’s Worcester Account also used shorthand, as did the Commons proceedings around the Five Members’ arrest.
On the second day of marriage, a couple in a sunlit home share frank affection and playful honesty. The wife timidly reveals her teeth are false, prompting the husband to quip that relief cools his ardor as he removes his wig.
Herr Blumenthal, director of the Lessingtheater in Berlin, doubted his new play Zum Weissen Rosse White Horse Inn would succeed. His wife joked she would take 20 marks per thousand of receipts and, after initial success, the play earned profits despite a weather-related dip below the thousand mark on some nights.
A family inheritance puzzle unfolds with three sons sharing sums, a twist reveals the third son gets nothing as lawyers take the rest. A separate anecdote recalls Frau Blumenthal bargaining for coins and a small cash robbery note from London Tit-Bits. The Brooklyn navy yard connects by wireless to the Panama canal station.
A Humboldt rancher returns from a trip east and visits an old neighbor famed for patience. He learns the neighbor has suffered severe losses including timber fires, river erosion of bottom land, hog cholera deaths, illness in his family, and foreclosure on another property.
A teacher recounts a quizzing inheritance problem where a man dies and leaves his eldest son one fourth of the property plus one tenth of the next son’s share, who would receive one fourth of the property plus one twentieth of the remainder.
The article notes a decline in horse hauled fire apparatus as power driven engines take over. Electric storage battery trucks, enrolle engines, and gasoline rivals push reliability and speed, with New York converting many horse drawn units. Batteries enable twenty miles at top speed, reducing horse feeding costs.
Gorge M. Dickson of the National 40 company notes fewer complaints about damaged left front fenders since adopting left side driving. He cites improved road vision and better distance gauging to explain reduced nicks from cars, fences, or poles as drivers adjust to the newer configuration.
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