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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1913
Page
2
Recipes cover stuffed cabbage Salmon Timbales Cocoanut Soup Rossury Cakes Ginger Toe Cream Marchroons and more from a Chicago Recort-Herald page. Also features fashion notes on a sport coat and a liver tonic advert for Her Brine.
Monmouth Ore Aug 6 In 1587 English colonization attempts began in America a giant oak on Whiteaker farm two miles north of Monmouth grew. Ring count shows age about 126 years circumference 18 feet 6 inches diameter about 6 feet over 22 inches of heartwood yielded. It was second largest in the county near another claim as largest oak with 24 feet 7 inch circumference and nearly feet diameter.
A reminiscence titled Tommy's Top-Foresight appears in the Philadelphia Record. The piece reflects on aging and the loss of future prospects as a man grows older. It frames forethought as a guiding value for a life lived with purpose.
In Portland General Leonard Wood urged passage of a liquor prohibition bill noting tea as a better army beverage and saying alcohol should be harder to obtain. He contrasted tea with whiskey and coffee, citing circulation effects and wartime Philippines experience. Wood toured the Vancouver barracks with Secretary Garrison.
Guidance from Professor Alfred Lunn of Oregon Agricultural College on selecting healthy birds, bathing and grooming, shipping them in proper coops, training them for handling, and feeding strategies to boost odds at school fair competitions.
A cryptic line complains about not giving full effort when facing a challenge and hints at self reflection and improvement in a riddle like note.
The Oregon Industrial Commission ruled that girls under 18 may work eight hours and 26 minutes daily or 54 hours weekly, not after 6 pm, with a 1 per day minimum for 16 to 18 year olds. The rule, effective in 66 days, affects department stores, telephone and telegraph offices, hotels, restaurants, laundries, and similar retail businesses.
Aug 6 Penver report quotes Dr Olive Lynn at the osteopaths convention arguing that lack of housework makes women flabby and anaemic. She cites statistics on spines and lungs and says brisk domestic labor restores a slim waist, firm arms, and upright carriage, praising corsets as supportive. The piece notes a shift in beauty norms toward Venus of Milo proportions due to activity.
Secretary of State Jordan reports 2681 automobile licenses issued in July with an average value of 2060 dollars each, totaling 5,362,099 dollars for Californians. The daily average was 107 licenses. July activity surpassed February but lagged behind earlier months. The month’s total licensees reached 112,192 and chauffeurs 29,996.
San Francisco Aug 6 Richie has accepted an offer to fight Fred Welsh in Vancouver. The bout will feature the veteran Welsh defending his title against the rising challenger in a planned match.
Anisements describe Tuesday's bill: a two reel Kalem feature The Fight at Grizzly Gulch with Carlyle Blackwell and Marian Sais, plus The Moulding with Anita Stewart, Entertaining Uncle with John Brergan and Ruth Rol, and an educational Cosmopolitan New York film. Starlight and Wentworth plot unfolds amid tribal conflict, rescue, and a fort ending.
Tuesday feature showcases fine photography and strong acting in a two part photoplay. Notables include Charles Kent Mary Maurice Leah Baird Coutenay Foote and ensemble delivering lively plots with clear character drawing and suspenseful situations. Also presented are His Mother In Law Visit and On Her Wedding Day with dramatic transformations.
War three reel feature covers actual fighting and troop movement in a sweeping depiction. The cooking mishap comedy Hubby causes a flooded kitchen and laughs. Friday adds Gaumont’s The Tomb of Flame as a sensational third reel screening.
An advertisement touts HERBINE as a remedy to remove accumulations in the bowels and restore prime health. It claims constipation is the start of serious diseases and urges readers to keep bowels active with regular use. Price is 50 cents, sold by all dealers.
Delbert Stanton of Athena was taken to Walla Walla Monday for hospital care and an operation for gall stones. The item lists visiting relatives and local residents during the week including Mrs Maggie La Brache, Miss Ruby Barnhart, Miss Laura Smith, J. M. Ruby, W. R. Taylor, Mrs N. C. Dickenson, Miss Banks, HK. O. Parker, Herbert Manassee, Mr. Boynton, and J. T. Liewallen visiting Pendleton and nearby areas.
Aug 6 report describes a cave-in in a new Northern Pacific tunnel near Tacoma where many workmen narrowly escaped death as tons of earth and cement plunged in. A preliminary roar warned the workers and they fled as an eighty foot long mass collapsed.
August 6 Omaha reports two bullets fired at Chief of Detectives Stephen Maloney as he worked in his office. The shots from behind a boxcar missed him. an unknown assailant fled the scene.
Reverend H Stubenwoll of Allison Iowa lauds Dr Kings New Life Pills for constipation calling them perfect pills no home should be without them. Claims liver and bowels regain, pills guaranteed, price 25 cents at Koeppens.
Salem reports Attorney General Crawford will present the deportation cases of Dr. Leach socialist editor from Bandon and five Marshfield Industrial Voters to the Coos County circuit court. Action follows Governor West's request.
Mrs. D. L. Kenney credits Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment with curing a fifty year bout of tetter after burning itching and skin trouble. The ad notes the product is available from druggists or by mail for 50 cents from Koeppen's Ady. Pfeiffer Chemical Co. St. Louis and Philadelphia.
Washington August 6 House leaders agreed to begin consideration of the Hetch Hetchy project to supply a water source for San Francisco on August 14.
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