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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1905
Page
4
Fragmented OCR shows publishing company offering subscription options by mail and weekly plans. It lists sale points at BH Bishs News Stands Hotel Portland Mote Perkiew Portland Oregon and mentions address 408 earth street with misc advertiser instructions and deadlines.
A reflective poem urging light and trust to brighten the heart of today and tomorrow. Arthur G. Lowls notes that despairing hearts often bear burdens not of their making, seeking cheer through darkness from sundown to dawn.
Portland deputation and Senator Fulton persuade President Roosevelt and Taft to back Oregon river works. Roosevelt plans a jetty continuation and river highway improvements, emphasizing honesty and nonpartisanship despite prior criticisms from Oregon politicians.
The piece portrays widespread unrest in Russia with soldiers turning on officials around the capital. It claims guards revolt at palace gates and predicts a massive upheaval exceeding the French Revolution, driven by oppression in Poland Finland and Siberian punishment. The author warns of an imminent, furious popular uprising.
A Hastings area Nebraska farmer, an enthusiast of the bar wagon, rigs his automobile to drive a washing machine. He lifts the car, attaches a bell to the drive wheel, and uses a pulley system to operate the washer, turning the auto into a utilitarian device.
The passage describes a man operating a washing machine with excitement as it runs, while his wife sits watching in a rocking chair. It portrays how progress and devices once novel become familiar and valued as everyday conveniences, reflecting on American attitudes toward new tech.
The piece discusses a fraud order by the post office directing mail to E G Lew is denied delivery to Lewis despite attempts to prove no financial value in letters. It notes Post Office limits and cites costly express charges as abuses, calling for government ownership of transport monopolies. It also mentions Milwaukee’s new fireboat christened with Milwaukee beer amid a fire fighting debate.
A rhythmic Native American themed poem by Winfred Chandler appears in Pacific Monthly. The verses urge Kamiah and the Valee of the Wolf to sleep while visions of warriors, buffalo, and moose haunt the land arise in them.
Auckland Weekly News reports an influenza like epidemic and whooping cough across four families. The notice highlights a claimed Great Pepper mint Cure as a remedy. The text lists various cold symptoms and urges purchase of the product.
A chaotic mix of names and anecdotes from the New York Sun era. References to Bertha Gordon's conviction for forging a money order, Miriam Michelson's San Francisco life, a neighbor’s white fence dispute, and political quips about Roosevelt. Includes a bizarre portrait of Odin Adolph Thomas, a child raised without religion or schooling, and a temperance tale with a sharp dig.
Governor Folk warns that inactivity of good citizens blocks effective government. When citizens neglect duties to city and state, unruly elements gain power and the public interest suffers. He says laws matter little without a strong public conscience guiding elected officials.
At The Dalles A T Steinmatz a steel driver dropped his revolver as he alighted from his stage. It struck the hub of a wheel and discharged, severing one finger and grazing his cheek and head.
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