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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1904
Page
4
Daily and weekly subscription plans listed with durations and rates. Includes terms like one year by mail, six months by mail, and four months by mail. Mentions Pendleton post office as the mailing entry point.
A fragmentary verse reflecting on human frailty and moral imbalance in Scots dialect. The speaker laments mankind's weakness and the difficulty of maintaining steadfast virtue amid temptation and social pressures.
The piece contrasts Irish famine and British revenue use with American sympathy for Ireland, notes Oregon corporation tax reform moves, warns against foreign wildcat firms, and criticizes the Manufacturers Association campaign against labor unions while defending collective action and pricing control.
The piece argues for municipal electric plants to reduce costs and broaden service, contending public ownership removes profit motives and spurs growth. It then shifts to brutal war reporting, contrasting civilian suffering and heroic rhetoric with the ongoing Japanese Russian conflict and a call for civilized outcomes after the war ends.
From M C Sullivan in the American Review of Reviews September issue the article explains Japanese use of telephone and rapid signaling in warfare. It contrasts visual systems with telephoto and rhetraph abilities to transmit information despite weather distance or terrain. It notes the improved concealment and mobility of field communications and the ease of moving operators over rough country.
A fragment from Sealle's Monthly recounts a nurse stories by the fire and a distant journey by cadets from Eureka California to the Lewin and Clark fair in Portland. The party, about 100 members aged around 20, will depart after school exteps.
The file outlines top railroad presidents earning up to 76 000 dollars annually including A J Cassatt at Pennsylvania and James Hu at Great Northern. It notes other leaders with 50 000 to 40 000 and even 35 000 salaries at lines like St Louis & San Francisco and Canadian Pacific. It also mentions industrial magnates and executives such as John D Rockefeller’s adviser C T Dodd, with high salaries and commissions, plus Schwab and other steel and copper leaders.
Thomas W. Lawson, Boston copper king, commissions a 133 bead gold gypsy head watch chain and matching gypsy themed watch case portraits. The jewelry, built to symbolize his wife Gypsy, costs nearly $40,000 and reflects extravagant spending habits amid his Amalgamated Copper exposé work.
A vivid verse portrait from a Denver Post piece portraying a bedraggled soldier in uniform, soaked and exhausted, standing through shellfire as a colonel’s whisper promises relief. He advances with bayonet through shattered trenches, mud and fear fueling a final, defiant push toward the foe.
The Denver Post quote portrays heated oratory as campaigns loom with crowd energy and divided views on national affairs. It mocks spellbinders who claim safety from harm as salaried speakers urge conformity while one speaker jokes about making it in this world.
The advertisement extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a tonic that supports digestion and nutrition, avoids alcohol, and strengthens the system. It claims relief from dyspepsia, debility, and biliousness using pure root and herb extracts, endorsing Pills as a remedy.
An advertisement touts City Brewery Bottled Beer as the greatest summer drink. It claims purity, health benefits, and physician approval. The message notes production in Pendleton and stable quality during shipping, with quart and pint sizes and delivery by phone numbers 1771 and 1831.
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