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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1912
Page
8
Funeral services held Friday afternoon in Weston for M A Bryson who died by self infliction in miserable weather. Odd Fellows led the rites with Rev W S Payne delivering the sermon as abundant floral tributes testified to the esteem of neighbors.
An advertisement claims eczema and skin diseases stem from skin issues not blood, urging use of D.D.D with wintergreen and thymus ingredients. Dr Holmes endorses it as a specific for eczema likening quinine to malaria, offering a $1 bottle with a money back guarantee. Tallman & Company sponsors the claim.
Fragmentary OCR reading shows financial figures including 91,263.95 and 339,500.00 plus 64,937.49 and 84,95 with unclear context. No coherent event or entities emerge beyond numeric totals and codes.
Mrs Eva Grahm visits her mother in Walla Walla while Mr Gould hosts a cheerful Friday gathering at Mr and Mrs George Staggs home with the Sunday school youth enjoying games and light refreshments. Mr William McKenzie traveled to Helix last week. Rev Quinney from Pendleton preached at the Episcopal church in Weston on Thursday and Friday. Mr and Mrs Ben Dupuis of Helix attended the funeral of M A Bryson.
A Paris eclipse on April 28 will trigger experiments on wireless telegraphy to study how ultraviolet rays affect message range. The Eiffel Tower wireless station will transmit in several directions from just before to just after the event, with rapid and slow vibrations yielding different distances, testing Hertalan wave energy effects.
A tested cake recipe using Cottolene for light texture. Ingredients include four ounces Cottolene two cups flour four egg whites sugar water hickory nut kernels baking powder and optional esterne powder. Method beat fats and sugar add water and flour fold in whites and nuts bake forty five minutes proving Cottolene can substitute butter with lower cost.
George Gillette reports Western Union announces a pension plan for about 30,000 employees nationwide. The plan grants 1 to 2 percent per year of service based on salary averages, with brackets from twenty to forty years, starting at 25 dollars monthly and capping at 100 dollars, designed to reward long service and provide retirement options including disability retirement.
Dr Paul S Hunter uses a phonograph to teach a Mexican mockingbird to imitate the English nightingale in a pioneering bird training scheme. The bird, almost a year old, eagerly attends to records and mimics sounds from cuckoo to baby gurgles, while the hunter keeps a diverse collection of song birds and teaches other noises.
The Pendleton City Council will accept bids until April 17, 1912 at 7:30 p m for a water system and pipe line at Round-Up Park. Plans by City Surveyor Geary Kimbrell on file with the City Recorder. Bids must include specifics for pipe, laying, manholes, catch basins, and the complete pipeline, with a 5 percent certified check. The council may reject any bid. Dated April 6, 1912. Mayor James C. Dahlman of Omaha endorses Foley Kidney Pills with dealer availability noted.
Howard Gould and three companions spent the night in a small Edra launch on a sandbar fourteen miles from Tampa while tarpon fishing. Gould lay ill with a cold as a doctor attended him. The launch ran aground and could not be freed until morning. names of the others aboard were not learned.
The report states Miss Kathryn Hutchin of New York is linked to Gould as a future wife once he obtains a divorce from Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould. The current notice notes the couple may wed after the divorce becomes final.
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