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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1913
Page
2
A fragment list advertises dress goods for August clearance with prices from 50 cents to 1.75 dollars. It mentions all wool materials in plain colors stripes checks and plaids worth 1.00 to 1.50 per yard, described as practically given away.
An unusual season for white goods shows half pieces and small lengths offered at reduced August Clean-up prices. A complete showing of different width stripe wares and qualities. Cotton Corduroy prices drop: 35¢, 28¢, 40¢, 50¢, and 39¢ for varied August Clean-up items.
The notice promotes an August Clean-up sale featuring wash goods in various fabrics and colors, including saisette poplin English coral and para suiting. It lists discounted prices such as 5¢, 10¢, 35¢, and 25¢ per yard, along with a lot of percales in light colors, and a selection of ginghams for dresses and shirts. The sale highlights 32 inch Scotch pine in plaids and stripes and invites shoppers to note the August Clean-up event.
Limited stock on hand for best quality full size sheets and pillow cases. August Clean-up sale offers $1.25 sheets at 97¢, $1.00 sheets at 87¢, 5¢ sheets at 4 4? 75¢ sheets at 64, 33¢ pillow cases at 27¢, 20¢ pillow cases at 17¢.
Pendleton's Finest Grocery offers fresh farm produce from Stanfield including peaches melons corn beans celery cucumbers peppers tomatoes grapes and cantaloupes. Special 2¢ melons crate lot prices. first Milton grower shipment on sale today. Also fresh Swift's Premium hams bacon lard lunch tongue dried beef honey egg noodles salmon and harbor sale dinnerware in basement.
Fall color guide lists navy brown purple ruby red russet green and strawberry shades with emphasis on taupe and moleskin. fashion notes. Recipes include spiced pineapple preserve currants relish stuffed green peppers and green tomato mincemeat with step by step prep and sealing tips.
In New York on August 26 police found Mrs Mary Lake and her four children aged 17 to 18 and 14 dead in a Brooklyn home. The husband Henry Lake a restaurant chef lay dying nearby. He apparently killed the five and then fatally wounded himself, lying in a pool.
A man named Lake sustained a head wound and was found in a wrecked room. He was semi conscious and could only mumble. He died at a hospital. Police have not established a motive for the crime.
Advertisement notes teething babies suffer in hot weather with upset stomach and loose bowels. McGEE'S BABY ELIXIR advertised as correcting sour stomach cooling bowels aiding digestion. Price 2k and £0c per bottle. Sold by all dealers.
Philadelphia reports Dorothy Moylan of Germantown boys club excels as shortstop with 2 home runs 3 two-baggers and 2 singles in seven at bats while making 11 chances without an error. Happy Hollow girls lose 24 to 17 after disputed call at second base.
A brief, obscure line notes a positive aspect of triage practice, using a fragment that hints at early stages and preparation without detailing procedures or outcomes. The sentence presents the writer's impression in a compact, reflective tone.
New York plans a seven story structure hanging 120 feet above street level by bridged girders, a world first for construction. The project arises as a solution to gas company needs amid taller adjacent buildings and a weight limit on foundations.
At the Orpheum Tuesday a two reel Vitagraph bill features Edith Storey E K Lincoln Anita Stewart Harry Northrup and L Rogers Lytton plus Pathé and Kalem short subjects. Highlights include A Prince of Evil a swift romance with schemes and sisterly aid and Where Clouds and Mountains Meet Yosemite scenes Colombo capital of Ceylon a jinrikisha tour showing many scenes.
Visitors to the Pastime will laugh at The Tables Turned a Vitagraph comedy featuring Dorothy Kelly Norma Talmadge Rose Tapley and Mrs Kate Price Honor Thy Father is a two part feature with Thomas McQuade praising its qualities The Tables Turned shows Aunt Mary’s long pretense of illness reversed by a niece Betty and The Meadow Lark a country love story with outdoor scenes ending in a dramatic fainting finale with the minister.
A Cosy program lists Wednesday and Thursday showings featuring An Accursed Inheritance a drama about a father’s wine gift triggering a family curse Charles degrades into a wanderer and outcast Crystal presents Clancy the Model Irish model as Indian inebriated rampage Hooked a comedy of pranks with Frenchy swapping candy boxes leading to marital mischief Good comedy and laughs throughout
Twenty two states including Massachusetts now employ state foresters. A 115 foot lookout tower on the Sitgreaves national forest in Arizona was recently constructed entirely of logs without any hoisting machinery by forest officers.
Forest officers on the Payette National Forest employ a compressed air drill for road work amid heavy rock cuts, claiming faster, cheaper grading of mountain roads. An experimental test track near Janesville Wisconsin showed untreated hemlock and tamarack deteriorated after 12 years, while treated timber remained largely sound.
If you sit in a cool draft when heated and get a stiff neck or lame back you will seek relief. Fix your mind on Ballard's Snow Liniment as the best pain relieving remedy available. Prices 25c 50c and 1.00 per bottle. Sold by all dealers. Adv.
Calgary Alberta Aug. 20 With grain cutting in full swing in Western Canada under ideal conditions the entire country is looking forward to a prosperous fall and winter season. Already the tightness of money which has been the bogey for the past six months is disappearing and thereby every prospect of renewed activity in all lines of business. The crop which is now being harvested promises to be the greatest in the history of Canada and everywhere where modern farming methods have prevailed the yield will be a bumper one.
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