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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1906
Page
4
The Oregonian lists advertising rates and publication schedules. Rates apply to daily weekly semi weekly and monthly insertions. Notice also describes advertising copy deadlines and publication timing for preceeding Saturdays.
A dated poetic fragment reflects on quiet sleep and sacred memories in graves, noting that the living still feel affections and cross paths with those who love us most. The piece appears in Watson's Mivenzine.
The Pendleton editor Geer defends his foes against a spoof by the East Oregonian over Mrs. Jefferson Davies death and a poetic attack. The piece rebukes the rival paper for mistaking satire for persons while praising Geer’s editoral restraint in Pendleton amid urban fright and ghostly figures.
Onegontan questions hidden county of Oregon as East Orecontan remains unsure amid rumors of Dinger Merman’s alleged Interior department graft in a backroom, a Burton tower scandal, and a shadowy chamber tied to land issues and Goer’s party figures.
Senator La Follette of Wisconsin tours the country educating the public on railroad rates and national questions. His fearless honesty earns demand from many parties for lecture engagements, with enthusiastic receptions in every state and admiration for exposing senators who vote against public interests.
In the East Oregonian a note praises Echo climate with seven months frost-free, highlighting fertile Umatilla County soil, rail and river access, vacant land, and strong markets. It urges support for a portage road, a jute plant at the penitentiary, and Weston Normal School ahead of next week’s legislative meeting.
The Pendleton paving project inspires locals to take up steady work, including men who rarely labored before. The improved conditions and economic uplift show strong early effects, with ongoing hope that the beneficial influence will persist.
A playful catalog of eccentric habits attributed to literary icons. Keats liked red pepper on toast while Dickens wore jewels in his wardrobe and Daudet slept with eyeglasses. Poe kept his cat close and bragged about his feet as Thackeray tipped his hat near the house he wrote Vanity Fair in.
A Denver Post exposes a fanciful plan by Ralph J. Meyer to profit from a postal bag handling device. The piece recounts Meyer's past misadventures with mail bags, details his claim of a royalty of 7.50 per bag and a nationwide deployment of 100000 arms, and ends noting that the idea seems unlikely to yield 750000 dollars annually.
The piece criticizes Mexican plantation swindles and similar schemes run via public subscription and other misleading ads. It notes detectives and police efforts to catch three card monte operators and cash-for-gold scams, while lamenting government inaction and the high cost to victims. It urges postal and police authorities to act on harmful financial advertisements to save millions.
A reflective verse fragment echoes Wordsworth style lamenting humanity’s neglect of nature. It contrasts sea and wind imagery with a wish to glimpse Proteus or hear Triton, expressing longing and discontent with modern life.
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