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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1914
Page
3
A society column style page highlights social events, club notices, personal notices, fashion notes, home hints, and other items of interest to women readers. It surveys gatherings, outfits, domestic tips, and community updates with a feminine perspective.
J F Robinson receives a wireless ocean letter from his wife en route to the orient. Maria Oliver ill with fever. Mrs Clarence Penland hosts Presbyterian church choir. Glimpses of shipboard life and social updates amid 1914 Pacific crossing chatter. The message mentions Empress of Russia voyage and arrival plans at Yokohama April 10.
A warning of backache and bladder distress signals kidney weakness and the need for strengthening. The Foley Kidney Pills are claimed to act directly on kidney and bladder, offering healthful support for weak inactive or sluggish kidneys without habit forming drugs. Sold in 50c and 1 dollar sizes, with Foley Cathartic Tablets complementary at 26c, available from dealers nationwide.
The article advises parents to take kindergarten activity outside once frost ends. Set up a low outdoor table with drawer storage for beads papers scissors crayons and clay. Provide watercolor paints brushes and paper to teach washes and simple flower card designs. The activity emphasizes self directed art, color mixing, and producing give away flower cards.
A full page advertisement promotes an Ever Ready Medicine Cabinet with general purpose remedies for aches pains corns piles bronchial issues and more. It claims pure food law guarantees and offers a discount from 2.00 to 1.00 during a limited introductory sale from Hamilton Drug Co Hamilton Ohio with directions and duplication options.
A popular health warning explains meat can strain kidneys and trigger backache headaches stomach issues. It recommends Jad Salts, four ounces in water before breakfast for a few days, to flush and normalize kidney function and reduce bladder irritation.
A Los Angeles Express contributor describes a cheap scissors holder crafted from a candy pall cover, with a dark burn around a pasted magazine girl head. It suggests adding brass hooks along the lower edge and notes its use for button hooks and ornaments, inspired by tiny square buttons on frocks.
A Geneva Times note describes beating three eggs with milk sugar and salt, adding flour to a proper batter, and stirring in olive oil. The mixture is cooked in a hot greased pan into round cakes, browned on both sides, then spread with jelly, rolled, and dusted with powdered sugar.
Advert says use Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for coughs and colds with world wide reputation and high praise. Claims remarkable cures and notes it is for sale by all dealers.
In Echo Oregon heavy rain aids grain as farmers report fine growth. Visitors include H L Bowman of Pennsylvania en route to Portland and Mrs Bob Shaw visiting from Calgary with her nephew Frank Sloan. Epworth League members hosted by Eugenie and Esther Scholl and Emma Geiszler featuring music games and puzzles. Local trips include Pendleton visits by Mrs J Frank Spinning Emma Geiszler and others. Sheep shipments to Portland and cattle moved to Horse Heaven mark the week.
April 9 in La Grande Oregon with several candidates for county and state posts. For county judge paying 1200 yearly, J C Henry has held the post four years. The filed petitions come from two Democrats J R Oliver and J F Phy two Republicans W W Randall and J C Henry and one Progressive Lorenzo Stillwell. Arthur Williams seeks Justice of the Peace and D H Proctor seeks reelection as recorder.
The Orpheum presents Grass County Goes Dry a comedy featuring Wallace Berry with Doctor Perkins and Deacon Carpenter rivals for Widow Green and a hair growing whiskey gag. Also shown The Cop on the Beat and Kalem's His Indian Nemesis starring Nona Darkfeather a standout photoplay.
Daniel Frohman's Famous Players presents Lillie Langtry in His Neighbor's Wife and Laura Sawyer in An Hour Before Dawn at the theater this Thursday and Friday. The three reel productions, directed by Edwin S Porter, feature Langtry with Captain Leslie T. Peacocke and Mimi Yvonne, and Sawyer with House Peters as Kate Kirby. Matinees 10c adults 1c children. evenings 15c adults 10c children.
Advance notices hail Dowell and Gray in their original suffragette satire The First Election a top vaudeville act to be seen Wednesday and Thursday. Soprano Miss Gladys Rahe sings The songs my mother used to sing Wednesday and Thursday. Also on screen The Star Boarder and Our Mutual Girl ninth film with Charlie Chaplin Keystone style.
A brief arts listing notes a two part program titled By Radium Rays. The entry signals a staged show or lecture series airing tonight, with details implied but not fully printed in the fragment.
The article extols an external abdominal application named Mother’s Friend as a aid for pregnancy. It claims reduced nausea and eased strain on ligaments, noting wide community support and listing availability through drug stores and a booklet with further guidance. The address Pacific Regulator Building Atlanta Ga is given for a direct order.
A drama featuring radium as a detection method draws press attention with Dorothy Davenport in The Voice of Viola. The bill also includes a slim comedy Slim Becomes an Editor praised as a big laugh producer. The program offers varied subjects and strong humor, a standout for days.
Special Correspondence from Athena notes numerous guests and locals visiting from nearby towns. Names include Frank Greer Weston, Mr and Mrs Ferguson and daughter Gladys Walla Walla, Miss Ethel Wadingham Weston, Prof C A Gueme Pendleton, Deputy Sheriff Joe Blakely Pendleton, and many others visiting Athena on Saturday or Wednesday.
Mr and Mrs M L Watts and daughter Vernita drove to St Johns Washington Friday returning Sunday Miss Gladys Andre visited Pendleton Monday A B Steele did business in Pendleton Monday Mrs Dean Dudley returned from Walla Walla where she had been in the hospital for a month Mrs N A Miller visited the county seat Tuesday Mr and Mrs Frank Rogers and family Pendleton visitors Athena Sunday H Worthington Weston Mr and Mrs L L Rogers Pendleton in the city Tuesday Mr and Mrs D T Willaby Weston Monday Alma Wilkinson called to Pendleton yesterday by illness of her brother Wm Chamberlain Robert Reynolds Weston in the city yesterday H W Drew Athena head left for Portland to attend funeral of W W Wiles
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