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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1904
Page
4
A voice quotes Jerome K Jerome claiming ghosts are with us day and night as memories of childhood fade into a larger more helpless form of a ghost. He asserts spirits walk the earth and watch our comings and goings in various hours and places.
The narrative surveys the canal project across the isthmus linking Atlantic and Pacific. It covers the envisioned locks system, total length of 46.059 miles, rock and earth removal estimates, costs per cubic yard, and eight-year time frame for the Culebra Cut, with 16,000 laborers noted.
The article surveys labor supply with a Chinese company offering 60 000 to 179 000 workers at 66 cents per day, cites electoral college changes totaling 478 votes, and recounts wartime casualties and battles including Japanese, Russian, Austro Prussian, and Civil War figures with dated comparisons and locality mentions.
The Standard Oil Company earns about 45 million dollars annually in dividends, yielding roughly 9 percent on capitalization. Much of this revenue goes to a small group led by John D. Rockefeller, funding expansion and investments. The article claims the company is in the strongest financial position globally, threatening to outgrow wartime concerns as it reinvests profits into other industries. Ida M Tarbell notes moral courage as a virtue.
A Buffalo Commercial poem recalls Johnny learning in class and at home. The boy studies hem and darn and painting, writes, sings Wagner, and is taught ciphering and spelling by his father after work. The verse contrasts schooling with parental guidance and household skills.
Fragmentary verse attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson laments a farewell to a day and a camp, referencing a failed occasion and a hero’s looming day ahead. The archaic tone and imagery evoke a farewell to an event or opportunity with somber, unsettled emotion.
A dramatic preview extols a grand show featuring well-bred dogs and famed breeders, praising American prowess in conformation. It hints at a forthcoming supreme court term starting October 2 with bar admissions on October 11.
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