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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1917
Page
2
A local clothier proclaims its reputation rests on quality and vows to maintain high standards. The note promises lasting service from garments and explains profits may be reduced to boost customer satisfaction and future value.
A general sales notice promotes complete stock and quality, inviting inspection. It emphasizes new style ideas, ready service, moderate prices, and encourages customer examination of offerings.
Fall skirts in stripes and plaids for golfing tennis and wear. Silks and wools in new shades. Pleated and plain styles with pockets and button trims. Moderately priced from 5.75 to 25.00.
Devonshire Cloth offers new fall patterns and coloring in a wash fabric praised as fast and durable. Advertisers highlight its versatility for dresses children’s wear and men’s shirts, inviting readers to preview the line.
Step in today and see good things for your table kept free from dirt and flies. Fancy Calif Graventein Apples priced by the pound at 10 cents. Salted almonds and pecans, walnuts and Brazil nuts by express. Creamettes macaroni, cookies, crackers, and biscuits fresh from the factory ovens.
Washington reports July withdrawals reaching 28 million gallons by the 28th, triple prior monthly levels and the highest in 23 years. East central and southern districts account for most, with August continuing near 1 million gallons daily as tax and dry conditions curb supply.
A 1917 training guide outlines three base qualities Loyalty Obedience and Physical Fitness and adds three more for campaigning intelligence cleanliness cheerfulness plus three battle traits Spirit Tenacity and Self-reliance. It stresses that intelligence comes from observation and readiness rather than schooling and notes how Cheerfulness kept Union troops resilient in the mud of 1863 at Falmouth and Fredericksburg. It concludes that mastering all nine traits through training will build self-control endurance and initiative for wartime service.
A proposal outlines that every American soldier at risk or in danger would wear a neck tag bearing his name and identification number to aid recognition by any pursuer, potentially aiding in death scenarios. The excerpt cites a method to identify soldiers even in peril.
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