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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1902
Page
7
Pendleton directory style listing shows prices for chickens, turkeys, geese, spring chicks, calves, and dressed meat. Also includes Pendleton Retail Grocery prices for sugar, coffee, rice, salt, flour, hides, pelts, and assorted animal skins with varied per unit rates and weights, dated Portland April.
In Walla Walla April farmers crave sun to spur grain and vegetable growth after prolonged rains and late spring. Prices in the late vegetable market remain strong as moisture aids growth but soil warmth lags, delaying uniform development.
Portland issued crop review notes winter-killed wheat in Morrow and Umatilla counties re-seeded in March. Fields look spotted but crops growing well. Gardeners plant potatoes and prepare land for corn. Hop vines just started. Grass growing quickly, but cattle winter fed longer. West cattle finding feed, east stock still on winter ranges. Lambing nearly finished, flock increases at average. Fruit bloom includes peaches apricots cherries and early plums with no frost damage except Wasco County peach crop cut by mid winter cold with only half a crop expected.
An advertisement touts DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a universal cure for sores burns bruises and wounds. It cites a testimonial from A B Fuller of English Indiana who says a gunshot wound to his left leg healed after using the salve, claiming it cured him after years of trying other remedies. Tallman & Co Brock & McComas are listed sellers.
In Umatilla county sheep shearing begins with buck sheep shaved early for vigor and wool sale value. By March the full clip spreads from the Columbia River sand country toward Pendleton and interior districts, with 7 cents per sheep paid. Lambing also starts, extending through April and into May, with few losses reported and improving weather.
Millions marvel at Dr King’s New Life Pill curing stomach liver and bowel troubles. Dyspepsia, loss of appetite, jaundice, fever, malaria all claimed. 26 cents at Tallman & Co’s drug store. Smoke Pendleton Boquet Cigars.
Residents of Greenhorn in Grant county warn that sheep cannot graze in cattle territory. The notice, signed by most cattle men, bars any sheep grazing even on private land, signaling potential trouble as enforcement begins.
A compact quotation from The Country Merchant asserts society can endure poetry music and art absence yet cannot endure life without advertisements. It emphasizes the vital role of ads in commerce and daily life.
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