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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1912
Page
2
J EK Keefe Jr outlines Pendleton’s Round-Up as a catalyst for community pride and growth. The piece situates Pendleton within Western festival culture, notes its rapid development, and links the event to the stock industry, range arts, and evolving agriculture amid transitions in grain growth.
The evolution of horse breeding reduces the old time cow pony from ranch life though a few remain. Among them is Spot, the Pinto ridden by C A Byers at Round-up Park, owned by Mrs. Margaret Adams. Spot, nine, was once vicious but broke into a master saddle horse, roping and cutting with ease. He is highly valued, yet cannot be bought today for a thousand dollars.
Pendleton Round-up grew from a 1910 plan into a citywide civic enterprise. It funded a modern park, lakes, tennis courts, and landscaping, drawing visitors state and nationwide. The effort, led by unpaid directors, aims to keep Pendleton as a center of Western civilization and pride. The second piece describes the United Kingdom way-ticket system for the unemployed, tying tramp control to bread tickets and labor exchanges, with households urged to cooperate.
London describes a changing tramp problem as the new English scheme issues way tickets to channel vagrants into work. The system offers food and lodging to those seeking employment, with progress noted as ragged mendicants gradually diminish their ranks on the high roads.
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