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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1912
Page
2
Unclear OCR lists multiple price values for curtains and draperies with ranges from $1.48 to $5.00 and references to remarkable price reductions. The fragment suggests a sale event encouraging customers to take advantage of low prices on window coverings.
In this era every well dressed woman focuses on undergarments with ten distinct brassieres and corsets on display including a new square back design. Prices listed to suit slender and stout figures.
Special sale of white Swisses with colored borders and plain values up to 20 yards. Tuesday and Wednesday price sale offered high value materials at reduced rates for shoppers.
The ad states spreads are available in plain hem fringed scalloped and cut corners. Prices run Tuesday and Wednesday with values at 1.25 150 185 200 250 and the final value price to be announced later.
Imported dress linens offered in natural shade from light dress weight to heavy suiting. Full stock available with prices at 25 cents 50 cents and up to five or ten cents in the ad listing.
Notting ham and net curtains in white cer nie and cream with plain nets and designs. Valves and scarfs on linen hems and drawn work offered with various prices. Boys waists advertised as well made with Mother’s Friend bows and sizes from 50 cents to 1.25 dollars.
A promotional offer states that with each Hercules suit sold a free boys baseball suit or catchers outfit is included.
In town, boys shoes are described as superior with a guarantee and free repair for rips. Prices range from $1.50 to $3.50. Hats and caps for spring are advertised as affordable, with a fine assortment and prices around 50 cents to $1.50.
The Oregon Theatre screens The Squaw Man April 30 with a company praised for high class artistry. Winnipeg critics call the production the best seen since the theatre opened, noting powerful human interest and a balanced cast delivering convincing, sincere performance with vivid stage realism.
The Al G Barnes Big Three Ring Wild Animal Circus brings two Pendleton performances on Tuesday May 7. The elephants perform tricks, stand on hind legs, and are trained with ropes and a crane. the herd includes elephants over 100 years old.
Echo Oregon April 29 The Herni ette Rebekah Lodge No 36 entertained the Odd Fellows at their hall on Friday evening April 26 marking the ninety third anniversary of Odd Fellowship in America. The program featured instrumental solos by Miss Houser and Miss Gulliford, vocal solos by Neva Gillett and Miss Daphene Gulliford, readings by Mrs T G Smith and Mr Peil, and addresses by G W Henry Taylor and Mr Kirkpatric. Refreshments followed the program.
Sixty people gather including visitors from Stanfield and Pendleton. A. B. Thomson R. B. Stanfield and Postmaster FE. R. Ware returned Saturday from Pendleton. C. J. Guiliford spent Saturday in Pendleton with his mother. John M. Hill of Pendleton visits with his daughter Mrs. R. B. Stanfield. Mrs. F. M. Schriver spent Saturday in Pendleton. A large group of baseball fans traveled to Hermiston for the Evho vs Hermiston game, won 4 to 2. Wilford McFall came from Pendleton Sunday to spend the day with friends.
Vernno Tantiinger of St Joseph uses a boomerang to hunt ducks, claiming twelve ducks fallen in eight throws. He states no law forbids boomerangs in city hunting and describes his water dive tossing technique as birds rise and cluster.
The program features four reels led by The Spanish Revolt of 1836 from Kalem, filmed in Southern California with Alec Joyce and Garyle Blackwell. Also shows The Star Reporter, His Mother-in-law, Teaching a Liar a Lesson, and The Queen's Necklace from Pathe and Esaniy, with a plot about a queen’s necklace foiled by a countess. Jack Wilson subplot notes a bank scare and a rescue of savings.
The Pastime showcases Vita graph's The Seventh Son Abraham Lincoln tale of mercy and pardon plus Hello, Central Lubin a romantic tale with May Buckley. Edison presents The Mine on the Yukon with Rex Peach tale. Biograph Their First Kidnapping Case a humor filled sleuth farce. Also Help Help in Dream a playful short for youth audiences.
A slate of 1912 era films features The Real Estate Fraud showing how a young man and his mother are duped by a land dealer, saved by a stenographer who becomes his wife. Also on the bill are The Interrupted Telegram and Extravagance with Thanhouser stars, Brannigan's Promotion from Nestor, Prague the Beautiful, and a Titanic captain appearance.
A dynamite blast in Mrs. Charles Schreeves's kitchen wrecked the stove and fired the room in Shendoah Pa. The woman was unconscious but not seriously harmed. Authorities suspect dynamite caps were hidden in the wood, prompting the blast precautions.
An old advertisement declares Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, claiming it cures constitutionally by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It promises $100 reward for any case it cannot cure and urges readers to send for testimonials.
Mrs E J Meiners of Pendleton Oregon describes two years of kidney back and loin pain eased by Doan’s Kidney Pills. She reiterates satisfaction after renewed use in 1910 and endorses the remedy sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo sole agents. Price 60 cents. Remember the name Doan’s.
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