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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1912
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR shows publication details for an independent Pendleton Oregon newspaper with schedule types and mail rates. Mentions Pendleton as official county paper and notices printed for weekly and semi weekly editions with subscription terms.
In a grim verse the speaker recalls the clatter of the mill walls and the rush of water. Blick floats rise and fall as the wheel turns. Nelly marries and the miller dies, yet the mill and poet cling to fate until ruin and wreck.
A speaker branded as a soap box agitator visited Pendleton Saturday delivering threats of hard times if Wilson wins. Attacks on Taft forces and the Wilson platform were condemned as disreputable. bankers, traders, and citizens were urged to ignore the rhetoric as sensational and unfounded. Senator Chamberlain noted the Democratic platform calls for tariff revision and gradual, non destructive reforms.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease, claiming internal use fixes the blood and surfaces to restore health. It offers 100 dollars to anyone proven not cured and urges sending for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, with Hall's Pills for constipation.
The piece discusses Wilson's likely election amid a cautious business mood, with Roosevelt carrying Oregon if Wilson falters. It critiques a plan to unify agricultural college and university boards, advocates continuing separate regents and millage funding, and notes Wilson-Marshall campaign contributions versus Roosevelt era big-money fundraising. Pendleton and Oregon views are cited.
A small Boston entrepreneur uses a sidewalk newspaper dog near Park Street subway to sell papers daily. The dog wears a bell collar with a leather pocket for deposits, then returns to its master for another paper. Shoppers and children gather, offering pennies and friendly chats as fifty to a hundred people queue for papers.
A Chicago bar member told at a lawyer’s dinner in Indiana how a farmer’s son from Illinois went to Springfield to study law for three days, then returned home saying it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The tale ends with the farmer asking how he fared and the son replying sorrowfully.
Inherited talent and family roles shape Jones savings. His father is a policeman and his mother a charwoman. A thoracograph machine is invented to draw diagrams of chest movement during respiration.
A letter from J H Phirman urges voting against Clyde B Aitchison for railroad commissioner. It recounts a 1910 Oregon bill to regulate stock shipments, proposing a 1 mile per hour limit unless delayed, with a debated 12 to 16 mile per hour adjustments. The author accuses Aitchison, then a railroad commissioner, of siding with railroad attorneys and opposing pro shipper reforms.
In World’s Work Mars hall Hale mocks daguerreans while praising Marshiall’s features and grooming. The caustic piece claims a conspiracy in Indiana’s governance by camera imagery, yet compliments the governor’s bearing and style.
Senator Cummins praised a campaign win as finesse while a Concord banquet exchange joked about wine. A Concord man quipped about air presence after-dinner speakers, noting wine would imply reasons for attendance and that guests would not stay away.
In a Georgia district court Judge Emory Speer hears a witty exchange with a mountaineer charged with illicit distilling. When asked his name the prisoner quips Joshua who made the sun stand still then adds the moonshine line, prompting the judge to craft a firm sentence.
A Cleveland clergyman recalls his daughter ill at night asking to see her father and mother. As the child pleads to see the pastor, the mother tells her papa is busy. After a long pause the girl calls again that she is gravely ill and must see the pastor, and the man says he went up.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt quotes a wise man praising virtue as its own reward while a simple man laments the social burden of being considered good. The exchange reflects irony about public judgment and personal virtue.
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