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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1905
Page
4
Fragmentary text shows advertising notices and layout notes from a regional newspaper. It includes stray names, addresses, and bureaucratic phrases. Content is garbled with misreads but indicates notices to advertisers and carriage of second class mail matter.
The verse declares there are only two kinds of people, those who lift and those who lean. It argues moral judgments cannot define people by wealth, health, or status, and notes life’s swift years bring both joy and sorrow to everyone.
A Venetian Tribune opens a charge heavy with rhetoric accusing reformers and saloon interests of engineering a moral panic to hurt Pendleton business. It claims the town’s decline stems from prohibition pleas, urging business leaders to unite and defeat saloon domination at the council.
The Lowie and Clark corporation sought 590000 from Oregon for a fair related project promising 250000 toward a permanent memory hall but now claims it cannot contribute after the fair. Critics decry the scheme as political and urge building state institutions instead while Pendleton asserts county wishes prevail despite local reform efforts.
The Rast Oregonian and readers urge voters to back candidates who favor saloon regulation, licensing limits, and gambling suppression. They warn that electing factions aligned with higher licenses will push prohibition forward, shaping the county seat election and the state’s moral direction.
A political battle over railroad regulation is described as a government funded bureau promoting anti regulation literature. The piece accuses the effort of bias favoring railroads, omitting official reports on earnings and capitalization, and aiming to scare the public into opposing regulation. It notes private citizens, voting precincts and broad campaign efforts backing big corporations.
New York World profile depicts Edith King as a feared bounty hunter who tracks and arrests deserters for Army Navy and government records. It notes she has delivered over 2500 men to prison ships and jails, travels cities like Philadelphia New York Norfolk and Chicago, and conducts covert operations amid harsh repurcussions for deserters and even their mothers.
Talima & Co of Pendleton Oregon markets 100 wafers for 25 cents claiming the product cures malaria and a wide range of ailments including biliousness constipation nervousness catarrh liver stomach and bowel troubles. The advertisement lists 629 Main Street as the address.
The article describes a three month famine in Andalusia with 75 000 deaths and 76 000 linked to disease. It notes one million poor affected in a 4.6 million population, with bands of robbers looting farms, prisons overflowed, and Madrid seeking relief while warning of long term mismanagement. It calls for vast government investment to reform agriculture and transport, amid fears of a recurring catastrophe. The piece also mentions security crackdowns and potential troop deployment as unrest grows.
A reader recounts a blister on the right nose that worsened, then healed after using a treatment labeled 8.5.5. The painful sore resisted healing for years before responding to the remedy, with the claimant stating their cure. The note comes from Gwensboro, ity. No. Massiz.
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