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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1911
Page
4
Pacifi c Light & Power Co sponsored a Cook With Gas contest written by G A Robbins who won $5. The piece argues gas stoves cut costs versus wood or coal, estimating monthly gas bills around three dollars and highlighting convenience, time savings, and gender role remarks about who does cooking.
An old advertisement claims a Knocker is a man with poor judgment caused by a disordered liver and offers Ballard's Herbine as a cure for constipation indigestion biliousness and related ailments with a call to clean out the liver.
Chicago artist Augustus Eddy is among representatives from the United States at the annual Society of French Artists exhibition in Paris, known as the old salon, which opened today.
An advertisement touts a product that purports to purify enrich and revitalize the blood claiming 40366 testimonials of cures in two years. It offers the medicine in liquid form or as tablets named Sarsatabs.
Milton Ore April 29 Special Correspondence Mrs Louisa Barber mother of Mrs Frank Kent of Milton died at 73 due to paralysis. Funeral held Thursday at 2 pm at M EB church with Roy Walker officiating. Interment in Milton cemetery. The piece notes events in Milton including school program, aviation meet at Walla Walla, track meet in Athens, May festival at Milton beginning May 4, and local visits and business trips by residents.
Silt Lake reports a joint ecclesiastical and civil probe into charges in England that Mormon emigration is tied to immoral trafficking of women. Joseph F. Smith refutes the claims, pledges fair inquiry, and notes emigration follows parliamentary rules with record-keeping by White Star and Dominion lines. A Tennessee meeting by religious leaders to denounce Mormonism is announced.
Umatilla Oregon reports a week of activity at gravel pits run by Janes Scott Co of Walla Walla with new foreman Fraser and a growing labor force for concrete material. OWRN depot staff reduced to one day and one night worker complicating night mail and train duties. Burglars hit Cottage Hotel stealing clothing and change. Local visitors include Rev Luke Brechan and Rev C Butler. Fire threat in O W B M roundhouse contained. minor damage. Advertising promotes Mcees Baby Elixir for infant digestion.
In a playful exchange, Jennie balks at wearing her old hat to a Wednesday concert. The other woman agrees, revealing they bought only one ticket, creating a gentle social moment over appearances and shared plans.
A garbled New York Journal item hints at friction among the school police and jail boards over public fair funding. The text references city officials and a looming trouble, suggesting mounting tensions in local governance.
The text presents a fragmented, archaic sounding meditation on harvest and destiny. It references reaping, sowing, and a vague fate influenced by effort, with a passing nod to George Th Board mint as a possible author or source. The wording is garbled and hard to parse into concrete details.
A compact note references Trine Crete in a cryptic phrase about a solitary fox and sorrow linked to Chaniine, suggesting a literary or poetic fragment rather than a clear event or report. The text centers on personal imagery without identifiable public figures or places.
The piece traces historical safeguards around the king’s health, noting that Coke in 1610 described warrants from the privy council directing physicians to administer medicines with written records. It observes that today the council mainly reviews progress while treatment is handled by the physicians in charge.
The silk cotton trees of Jamaica rise 200 to 300 feet with sparse leaves and massive root masses. Pods the size of cucumbers dry to release cream colored alk cotton that blankets ground and sails on the breeze. The cotton currently serves pillow filling and has been proposed for guncotton use. locals felled trees into cav es that endure for generations.
Echo Oregon April 29 report notes an ice cream social at the old drug store on Main Street led by the Ladies' Aid of the M. E. church. The event drew a large crowd and provided a pleasant evening. Also listed are local movements: John Schmidt’s final proof in Pendleton, witnesses named, and several residents traveling to Portland Pendleton and Huntington for various pursuits.
Ad urges a fast cure for a cold with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails. Box bears BE GROVE’S signature. Price 26 cents.
Boston April 29 Today marks the birth centennial of Prof Jacob W Bailley born in Ward now Auburn Massachusetts a noted scientist and founder of microscope research in the United States He led the American Association for the Advancement of Science and belonged to many learned bodies His death occurred at West Point New York in 1857.
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