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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1901
Page
2
A Pendleton city election notice outlines a $2 street poll tax and October registration. Voters must show a tax receipt to cast a December ballot, with penalties including loss of suffrage and possible property seizure. The piece pivots to a critique of taxation fairness and ends with a dramatic asylum anecdote about Mary Ellisoh.
A New York woman named Mary Hirsch displayed remarkable nerve and quick thinking to save herself and her children, amid past hardship including her husband’s disabling injury and a history of drinking. The account notes ongoing family struggles and the recent troubling turn.
Samuel Williams recalls long struggle over the United States and Britain claims to Oregon and Louisiana territory. He cites Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Astoria, Bentons speeches, and Polk while detailing treaties from 1805 to 1846 and the 49th parallel compromise.
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