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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1902
Page
7
Local listing announces George Ge O'Dani offering new and second hand goods at the Opera House block street corner. Call and see him for hides pelts and junk items.
COMMERGE TRADE lists prices paid on the local market for produce and livestock. Turnips seven bc per sack. parsnips 76c. cabbage 4c per lb. cheese 20c per lb. onions 1.50 to 2 per cwt. green onions 25c per dozen. ice ts per lb. potatoes 1.60 to 1.75 per cwt. horse radish 12c per lb. sweet potatoes bc per lb. sauer kraut 40c per gallon. Pendleton Livestock and Poultry shows chickens hens 3.50 to 4 per dozen. roosters 4.50 to 5.50. turkeys 10 per lb or 9 per dozen. spring chickens 3.56 per dozen. ducks 7 per dozen. pigeons 1.50 per dozen. eggs 15c. butter 60 to 65c per roll. cows 3.10 per hundred. steers 4. live and dressed 6c. Pendleton Retail Grocery Prices list sugar cane granulated 5.00 per sack. 16 lbs 1. best granulated 5.25 per sack. 16 lbs 1. coffee Modia Java 40c per lb. next 36c. lower grades 26 to 15c. package coffee 16c. rice head 12 1/2c. next 8 1/3c. salt coarse 80c per 100. table 2.20 per 100.
The Salem supreme court is disposing cases rapidly to clear decks before the eastern Oregon term opens May 6. Only one case was set for the last week of April as an emergency, the final case heard at Salem for some time. Justices will go to Pendleton for two weeks in May then return to Salem to draft opinions on eastern Oregon cases. Ely's Liquid Cream Balm is offered with a spray tube for 75 cents, touted as quickly absorbed and non drying. Ely Brothers, 66 Warren St., New York.
John Habberton predicted success for Helen's Babies and proved it by mailing signed copies with praise to every United States book department head. Those managers urged staff to push the book, boosting sales without extra advertising. The Philadelphia Record notes the novel would have succeeded on merit anyway.
Jacob A. Rile recalls visiting three sisters grieving a drowned brother on a hot July day. He wore a limp cabbage leaf in his hat, which toppled into a ridiculous green skull cap and elicited hysterical laughter from the sorrowful family. The moment left him unprepared and amused, a lasting anecdote of his autobiography.
A New York Times quip notes that etiquette writings from skilled hosts mislead when a cookbook overreaches with rules. It imagines diners pinning napkins to dresses so the pin remains unseen, leaving guests with unpinned serviette aprons as they move to the drawing room.
Decorative china at Hawley Bros draws shoppers with prettiest designs. Visit to see the tableware and other offerings. Smoke Pride of Umatilla Cigars promoted as a spicy, quality choice for patrons.
Neglect leads to danger from billiousness and constipation your health may suffer permanently. DeWitts Little Early Risers cure such cases. M. B. Smith of Butternut Michigan says they are the most satisfactory pills ever taken, never gripe or cause nausea. Tallmas & Co. and Brock & McComas.
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Van Daan Bros, proprietors advertise their Pendleton hotel as the best in town and as good as any. The notice proclaims quality rooms and service, signaling strong local competition in lodging.
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