Portland area notices stray OCR fragment
Fragmentary OCR from a Portland Oregon page shows garbled lines about delivery rates and subscriptions. Mentions carrier charges and weekly or monthly options but lacks coherent details or dates.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1916
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR from a Portland Oregon page shows garbled lines about delivery rates and subscriptions. Mentions carrier charges and weekly or monthly options but lacks coherent details or dates.
A poetic note to Harriet Ware on her wedding day in December. The quatrain-like lines mix seasons and love, mentioning December, April, and winter winds as symbolic hints of romance and change in a festive, celebratory tone.
John Keeney died at Eugene at age 61 after 56 years in physical darkness. He could recall nothing he had seen except green grass and his mother’s eyes, a striking memory from a life bound to shadows.
The East Oregonian prints Gifford Pinchot’s conservation letter, while critiquing his current stance on Wilson’s reelection and suggesting a possible shift in leadership. The piece also laments the Willamette valley’s gloom and hints at bold remedies like a Cascade tunnel and pumping eastern ozone into western Oregon.
A report notes the arrest of Alexander the Mystic in Baker City amid a nation enjoying prosperity. The piece contrasts public mood with a provocative discussion sparked by a Pennsylvania state college dean claiming 375,000 unmarried women teachers may be as happy as married ones, prompting debate on matrimony’s role and societal foundations.
The passage argues that women face social pressure to marry or be seen as parasites and drudges, comparing old maid status to male dependence. It asserts unmarried teachers can be as happy or happier than married women and that women’s happiness now comes from freedom to choose many joys rather than one compulsory option.
A jumble of late 19th century items reports on explorers Harry Hexter and Victor Moody in the Sound country, a drug store foundation hole for a service pipe, a postponed free library opening with no free lunch, a Northern resident wedding at Gowin residence, a Thanksgiving ball in Milarkey hall, electric pole work by Pendleton Electric Light & Power, and magic show misdeeds by Alexander the Mystic with gambling arrests at Baker and Pendleton, including billiard hall losses and fines.
New York City November 24 reputedly the most heavily insured man in the country was found today as Harry Thatcher Dunn of Toledo Ohio. Dunn, president of the Caroline Rubber Company and vice president of the Willya Overland Filadelette Company, holds life policies totaling 1 490 000. Premiums amount to about 2100 weekly. Dunn previously lived in Springfield Massachusetts where the policy was placed by Frederic N Puller.
President Witton has four year experience behind him and no thought of another term to disturb his work on the pressing problems that now confront him.
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