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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1901
Page
4
A concise defense of shoes as essential daily gear noting the lifelong need for comfortable footwear. It argues that no price can guarantee fit and comfort, and that proper shoes offer natural support and grace for all activities.
A collage of shop notes and notices lists various vendors and promotions. Mentions include Dutton ice cream chocolates, Hawley Bros reed potatoes, Cleaverros dry goods, Murphy’s window shades and paint store, Godecke & Kirkman groceries, Crawford bicycles, fresh produce deliveries, Selville Mal-Waukee beer, Mrs Albee Sovith baths, and Crawford bicycle sales. Also references real estate listings by N. Berkeley and summer millinery closeout by Mrs Mobell. Continuous promotional blurbs from multiple local merchants.
The East Oregonian page highlights merchandise at Rader's furniture store including taffy candies flavors, refrigerators water coolers window shades curtain poles and matted items. Also noted are a RamblER bicycle shipment Rambler and Ideal bikes and a Pendleton A F and A M event at 7 90 PM.
A reader recounts using Dr. King's New Discovery after a severe bout of whooping cough nearly proved fatal. The niece, once with advanced consumption, also used the medicine and is now well. The ad touts the remedy as infallible for coughs and colds with guaranteed trials.
Mollie Perry files a $12000 breach of promise complaint against M H H Gillett. She alleges he asked her to marry in December 100 and she agreed. she lived at his residence until March 6 when he remarried his wife. Gillett, a wealthy farmer six miles south of Pendleton, is described as prominent. Henry E. Collier represents the plaintiff and James A. Fee represents the defendant.
The advertisement offers Ely's Liquid Cream Balm with atomizer spray for nasal ailments. It lists price with spraying tube at 75 cents and notes the liquid uses the same therapeutic ingredients as the solid preparation. Ely Brothers advertise from Warren Street, N.Y.
An urgent notice states excursion rates will apply on the O K and ON between Pendleton and Pineas on Sonia April 21. The round trip fare is 75 cents. Also mentions the Athena and Walla Walla baseball clubs meeting that date for the first time, with a crowd expected to attend.
The O. K. & N. Co announces a round trip fare of 3 pounds 90 shillings from Pendleton to Hot Lake in Union county. Tickets are limited to specific days and sold at the ticket office.
Mrs. Matilda Marshall died in New York City on Saturday April 15 aged 4 years. She had left Pendleton on Easter Monday April 8 and was there less than a day before death. Native of the East she came to Oregon about 30 years ago and lived mainly in Pendleton with periods at Pilot Rock.
Pendleton hosts a stream of visitors from Walla Walla and nearby towns. Alex Dovedale travels from Walla Walla, Robert Estee leaves for North Yakima for eight months to move his family, and Chas FE Hicks visits Pendleton before heading to Walla Walla. Harry S Watron returns to Tacoma after visiting Pendleton, while Miss Lida Neil visits her parents in Milton and returns by morning train.
Flowie Davis, daughter of Mr and Mrs C Y Davis, left quarantine for the first time after three weeks with smallpox. Several students from St Joseph's hospital recovered and returned home. At Peters home on Tustin street three smallpox cases were reported and quarantine expected to end soon. A separate accident near Umatilla Junction left a Japanese worker dead after a train incident. a coroner’s jury cleared the railway company of blame.
The Linnton horse meat abattoir, idle last fall, has restarted due to favorable conditions and rising demand in Oregon. About 800 ponies were shipped from ranges and processed before spring cold weather thinned supplies. Creation pauses planned mid May as ponies are expected to finish shipments.
The text notes possible slaughter of 10 000 envuses this year and 600 000 to 1 000 000 eagnee ponies across tributary markets. Stockmen fear horn removal to protect ranges for cattle and sheep. Oregon horde sales appeal in Sweden and Norway as the only horse meat produced under cattle and sheep farming conditions, with the Lington abattoir's viability uncertain.
W. Gi. Sayles returned from Franklin county after several days surveying land for homeseekers. He described fine roads, rapid travel by horse, and strong settlement prospects. He predicted a boom in northern Franklin county within a year, with good wheat, peaches, and irrigation not deemed necessary, foreseeing substantial growth.
The article notes McCandless of Ellenaburg Washington, linked to Seth Geer in Pacific Mutual Life annuities, plans in Alaska with a self chartered schooner carrying lumber machinery and supplies to a suitable site on the Reehering coast for a salmon fielding venture. He will depart San Francisco soon and move to Alaska in June to supervise the enterprise. Also mentions a patent medicine advertisement and a hospital update on William Davie’s critical condition after a telephone report from the attending physician.
A garbled dispatch from Walla Walla notes Mayor Jacob Bove as chair of the reception committee for the president and party. It states the president prefers a drive and will not receive the reception committee before the arrival, with dates and names partially obscured.
J B Kranee and family joined Oregon Mind and Game Association officials to oversee releasing 150000 rainbow trout brook trout and grayling from the North Fork to downstream points. Fish hatched at Clackamas hatchery will be shipped via railway and planted mid May. A salmon struck Kranee’s bait during the outing as his rod nearly ripped from the reel.
Local shop invites townsfolk to bring damaged carriages and gear after heavy winter wear. Experts promise repairs and reliable service to restore travel comfort and reliability after the season.
A garbled excerpt describes a property and rent issue involving a house with no rent to Joseph Ell, with mentions of Harum, Kel your real aes, and a Bwidlery house. The readable elements suggest a local notice about payment obligations and property ownership.
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