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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1911
Page
4
Readable fragments mention weekly issues and delivery, with scattered names and streets. Portland, Oregon appears among references, with partial lines about subscriptions, dates, and locations. The text mixes vendor names, addresses, and vague sale notes, offering no clear advertised event.
The fragmentary lines reference a stay by Per Lave and a journey toward a place called Urizatieht. Imagery includes sky tarotrenmin and a sense of breaking day. The text is highly oblique with limited clear events or identifiable entities.
The text argues for broad direct democracy via initiative and referendum, praising Oregon reforms as steps toward popular government. It critiques fears of unconstitutionality, cites founders like Lincoln, and warns that a ruling against direct legislation would elevate agents over principals in government.
Public discussion notes Judge Knewel proposing the mayoral salary at 1200 per year. Debate centers on the commission plan and its aim to unify city governance. The text reflects a community consensus among supporters of the plan.
A plan to set Pendleton mayor salary at 1200 per year prompts argument over city versus county pay scales. Proponents say the increase supports office needs and efficiency, while critics warn against private interests and financial risk.
Slips of text indicate growing tension over a railroad strike with workmen and unionists leaning toward aid for the strikers. A settlement seems near, but a broader general strike appears possible and would trigger a major disruption across industries.
Patrolman Casey enters Hoeenbrie's stores on duty and battles a tense exchange with the clerk over a pocket item and perceived disrespect. The incident ends with Casey affirming his right to shop without prior harassment and leaving the scene.
A fragmentary account notes a man who faced rare visions and tainted eyesight during a moment of truth. He is described as valuable, with colleagues describing his rare traits before a life change. A gas company offered him a lucrative role to rest gas meters after his discharge.
A lively fragment celebrates turning life into a celebration with fiddles and song. It mentions joy, smiles, wind whistles, and a hopeful refrain about life being worth living and days worth winning. The tone is exuberant and musical.
A garbled query asks who on a water route tour stops at branch line towns and passes the main line centers and whether the journey to Pendleton is part of a move to gain popularity. Names and locations are partly obscured, but mentions Diane Hike Walle Walla and Pendleton appear as points of interest in a questionable travel segment.
A fragment notes Main Street bridge completion in nine days and concerns over prepared approaches. It warns of liability if approaches are not ready, suggesting the bridge could be unusable or unsafe until final construction is completed.
A playful explanation references the Supreme Court dissolving a trust as an ablution or cleansing action. It uses dialect to describe the legal act as removing or dissolving a trust, implying formal elimination of its status or purpose by judicial order.
An advertisement extols Mother's Friend as a prenatal aid soothing the mother during pregnancy and aiding postnatal recovery. It promotes an oily external emulsion with comforting effects, claims to prepare the system for the upcoming crisis, and states the product is sold at drug stores with a free book for expectant mothers from BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO based in Atlanta, Georgia.
The report notes swift movement in the Indian Turkish War with no deaths mentioned so far, outlining the rapid advances and current status of hostilities without detailing casualties or specific engagements.
Birthday sketch recalls Fourth Hitchcock once a leading Washington bachelor. Born October 6, 1847, he studied New Town schools then preparatory college at Harvard, graduated 1877, failed law, and entered public life. He served as Assistant Secretary to the Republican National Committee, held roles in Taft’s 1908 campaign, chaired the Republican National Committee, and was appointed Postmaster General by Taft on March 1, 1909.
A compact historical notes list key events from history including the death of John Maitland Lord Thirlene in 1595, the loss of ship commanders Cook and Clarke with circumnavigation ships Resolution and Adventure, the Polish Kosciuszko uprising in 1754, a 1691 squadron under Moore capturing a Spanish ship with cargo, and the death in 1816 of Christopher Philip Obarkamp founder of a printing factory.
A flood of women from multiple towns testify by letters and notices that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured their ailments. Names and addresses appear in a broad appeal asserting the medicine's reliability and urging others to seek proof through correspondence.
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