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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1912
Page
3
An advertisement touts this spring's latest all wool suits with guaranteed nondbreakable fronts. Describes silk lined, serge lined, and mohair lined options, featuring some mohair and silk blends. Emphasizes a finest lot of medium priced suits with a Saturday sale price of $15.00.
One day sale offers pillows with tops and backs sewn ready for use. Includes new tasty designs in conventional patterns on high quality linen crash. Priced at 29 cents.
An advertisement offers extra large tapestry covers in greens red and yellow color schemes. Priced at $2.25 with the $1.87 sale price for Sunday only. Limited run of 2000 units.
Columbus orders abolition of all corporal punishment by state agencies. Officials violating the rule face discharge. The action follows earlier charges of brutality at the Industrial School for Boys in Lancaster where boys were beaten severely and carried to a hospital. No one yet discharged.
Educational authorities in Denver plan widespread training for girls to prepare them for matrimony. Led by Mrs Anna G Noble with support from the Mothers' congress, fifteen classes advocate cooking sewing laundry child rearing and budgeting. Courses aim to fit girls over 12 into regular schooling and teach them to earn a living and respect husbands.
London reports Sir Gilbert Parker returns to the House of Commons after a two months trip to Arizona described as a healthful sojourn. English novelists see American visits as vital after achieving prominence, though many prefer a simple visit.
Sir Gilbert Parker praises Arizona as a rare place where women’s suffrage might succeed with some skellhood. He favors small holdings and admires how Arizona authorities boost eligible districts to help small landowners work five or ten acres. His reception as a British representative has boosted his welcome to Americans.
A.C. Koeppen & Bron sell Ballard's Snow Liniment a healing antiseptic for flesh wounds burns scalds old sores and chafed skin in 25c 60c and 1 size bottles. Versatile remedy advertised alongside a satirical Cambridge University epigram attributed to a brilian undergrad and quoted from the Boston Post.
A concise note on grass widows misrepresenting verdure, suggesting appearances mask reality and cautioning readers about false lushness in claims of greenery.
Four reels of Edison and Lubin films feature incidents in Delhi and a college girl tale. Also Selig Epics about a teacher and cowboys plus Kalem political tale. Plus a Greek musical program with local artists and ensembles.
The Pastime presents Essanay feature Out of the Depths about a clerk who funds his mother’s sanitarium stay, faces ruin, and rises to political influence while dodging a blackmailer. Kalem’s A Hucktown Romance offers a light romance with an all white cast. Also billed are Troubles of the X L Outfit and Loony Jim along with Edison Eiligjon tale The House With the Tall Porch. Musical numbers include tunes by Schottische and Van Tizler, with Miss Lorenz and the act by Mc Cormick Lievd adding laughs.
A Cosy program Friday and Saturday presents four stories of sentiment and heart interest. The Child of the Tot teraments shows mother love risking all for a dying child. The Call of the Drum follows a veteran’s choice between comfort and old comrades. Songs of Childhood Days recalls a mother’s sacrifice as a daughter rises to fame and returns. The Satyr and the Lady features Thanhouser’s beloved Kid with a tender, happy ending. Madame Sarah Earnhardt stars Camille on April 19 and 20.
T Lawrence Seibert presented an author's interpretation of his song Casey Jones at the Grand Opera House with Miss Jim Loreng. The show featured Seibert telling the engineer story and delivering a lively performance to a packed audience.
The Oregon Theatre will present Beverly B. Dobbs in The Great Wonderland on April 15. The touring production showcases ten years of Alaska travel with exclusive views of Nome, Skagway, Dawson, Circle City, and other landmarks. Arctic scenes, Eskimo life, and gold mine reels promise a banner audience in this Seattle-origin show.
A brief reflective line notes that some men pursue danger to stay prepared for its arrival, suggesting a mindset of readiness and caution amid risk.
An advertisement urges mothers to use Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna to cleanse a sick child’s stomach liver and bowels. It promises gentle relief from constipation with no griping, highlighting the product’s fig sena composition and safe, pleasant taste. The notice promotes keeping the remedy on hand and cites full usage directions on the package.
A pamphlet style advertisement touts Papa's Diapepsin as a harmless remedy that digests any food in five minutes, alleviating sour stomach, gas, belching, nausea, and related pains. It urges readers to read the formula on cases and explains indigestion stems from undigested food rather than nervousness or disease.
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