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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1908
Page
2
The piece stresses asking clothiers if garments are all wool and notes that assurances from makers don’t suffice. It advocates chemical testing or buying goods guaranteed by the maker as the only sure ways to know fabric quality for fall wear.
Fort Hall Lembi and Coeur d Alene Indian reservations are being surveyed for possible opening to settlement. Government aims to complete surveys so land can be allotted in 80 acre unit farms and homesteaded. Rich soil, irrigation planned from Blackfoot River, Carlisle graduates aiding farming.
A quirky shopper note weighs value between middling steak and first rate coffee versus first rate steak and middling coffee. It promises a money back return from the grocer if the choice is reversed, invoking Kedling's Boot as the payment policy.
United States produced 29,704,123 barrels of salt in 1907, valued at 7.4 million dollars, up from 1906. The nation also exported about 62 million pounds valued at over 250,000 dollars, with average net value per barrel around 26.046 cents and per ton about 1.79 dollars.
Utica Aug 14 preparations are underway for a great celebration next Tuesday when James S Sherman will be formally notified of his selection as Republican vice presidential candidate. The town will be decorated and thousands of visitors are expected. Senator Burrows will deliver the notification speech. Sherman is at work on his acceptance speech. Also mentions Hickory Bark Cough Remedy offered by Pendleton Drug Co.
The Pennsylvania Dutch Dunk ars recommend Hickory Bark Cough Remedy claimed to cure coughs and be pure. Made from shell bark or white hickory tree bark, sold by druggists and all dealers everywhere via Pendleton Drug Co.
640 acres of fine wheat land five miles east of Helix with a half summer fallow a fine house and barns and other improvements. Terms include one half cash and the balance on time at 7 percent interest. Inquire J M Bentley Hartman Abstract Co Pendleton Oregon.
Winnipeg Aug 14 One hundred million bushels is a conservative estimate of this year's wheat crop in western Canada. In many Manitoba sections and other provinces workers are scarce and in some places jails have been opened to release prisoners serving minor terms to help gather the bumper crop.
A traveling dentist Francesco Vergani, jilted by Eloise Ferrari, returned to Italy to avenge her marriage. Disguised with a beard he lured her, ripped out most of her tongue with a powdered instrument, and was bound to a horse and dragged two miles by a mob. The woman and her husband survived their injuries. Vergani died from the assault.
Mrs Chas E Smith of West Franklin Maine says she likes good things and has adopted Dr King’s New Life Pills as the family laxative because they are good and do their work without making a fuss. These purifiers are sold at Tallman & Co.'s drug store.
La Grande area gains better electric service as Grand Ronde Electric, with stations at Coyé and Union, contracts Baker Light and Power to supply 200 horsepower from Rock Creek and to string lines via Union Pyle’s Canyon and North Powder. Baker Light and Power and Fremont Power secure 300 to 4000 horsepower from Olive Lake, boosting regional supply and marking a peak Oregon power network expansion. The town of Townsend Delaware claims the smallest newspaper in the U.S. is its four page paper two by three inches, edited by W. P. Wilson, with eight personal items and eight news lines.
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