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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1916
Page
3
Washington dispatch reports the War Department announcing that the Ohio Kentucky and Vermont militia have been ordered to the border immediately amid heightened tensions. The directive directs these three state militias to mobilize for border duty as the national security situation escalates.
Washington Aug 29 announcement says the joint Mexican American commission will meet in Portemouth KN early next month after the Lansag Arredondo conference. Officials emphasized progress and continued dialogue between the two groups.
A jumble of old craft tips and fashion notes describes methods to finish garments and maintain fabrics. Tips include leaf use on jars, ink stain removal, rhubarb for rheumatic relief, turpentine cleaning, and delicate washing guidance, with advice on hats, corset bags, embroidery, and summer dress styling.
A garbled text offers a bizarre noontime luncheon idea with fragmented phrases about crowns, sandwiches, and desserts. It references names and places in unclear form, making the item largely unreadable and not confidently traceable to a coherent event or recipe.
Herbert Ball a homesteader on Pleasan t Hut southwest of John Day Oregon accidentally started a forest fire while clearing brush on Friday. The blaze spread to adjacent timber and could not be controlled by nearby volunteers. Fire crews later reached the scene and contained the flames by evening. In the region 16 small fires were spotted Friday and Saturday but were extinguished with little damage. Robert Westknecht of the Portland forest service arrived to study cut over areas in eastern Oregon and Malheur forest, planning to remain two to three weeks, with Dr L Cares accompanying him.
Portland Aug 23 Arthur Kork 24 of 628 Ivanhoe Ave North drowned while swimming off the north bank of Wantland Island with a party of nine. He attempted to rescue a shifting raft, disappeared under the water, and despite assistance from a diver and harbor patrol, his body was not recovered.
Lawr ence Carr a mining operator from Butte Montana saw a striking woman on a Denver station platform two months ago. He learned her name was Ora Lucile Mable of Ritzville Washington a school teacher on vacation bound for Kolbingen City to visit her sister Robinson. Carr traveled to visit his brother and to find the woman who captured his heart.
A man found his partner and pressed marriage with ardor until she consented. They traveled to Denver yesterday and were married last night at 439 South Amerman Street by Rev. C Thibodeau. The couple left shortly after for Butta.
Greeley August 25. Hughes derides the Democratic administration in India speech claiming opponents failed to lower living costs. He accuses foes of betraying the merit system and leaving clients exposed to harm near the boundary. He cites opposition to tariffs and postwar unemployment as consequences.
Berlin reports that German diplomats believe Roumania's entry will prolong the conflict but not alter the final outcome. Premier Von Hohenrohe discussed the Balkan developments with foreign office officials as news was received calmly.
Washington dispatch reports Representative James Aswell of Louisiana challenging Charles B. Hughes over his veto as New York governor. He accuses Hughes of promising equality for women while denying them equal pay and justice in New York, citing teachers and other workers and contrasting past reforms with his current stance on suffrage and living wages.
The excerpt questions Hughes whether his stance on women’s suffrage shows statesmanship or demagogy. It contrasts President Wilson voting for suffrage in New Jersey with Hughes staying in Washington and not casting a ballot in New York. It ends by urging women nationwide to decide next November.
In Klamath Falls Oregon on August 19 Fred Glenn of Keller Stokers Denver outlined terms for trading 300,000 in city bonds for stock in the Oregon California and Southwestern railroad proposed by Robert Bestra horn. Keller Brothers would engineer the election for a one percent fee, with attorney fees of 300 if the election fails. No action was taken yet, but the plan is to retain Keller Brothers at the next meeting. Honanza east of the city is securing free terminus sites and working on a seven mile right of way for the Strahorn road.
A distressed report from Denver details a medical irregularity involving a baby placed inside a slaughtered cow. An unidentified man and a woman were connected to the incident as investigators pursue the facts.
Gall stones cancer and other fatal stomach ailments said to yield to Mayr's Wonderful Remedy. Claims auto intoxication and yellow jaundice are caused by stomach trouble. Thousands of sufferers reportedly recover. sold by druggists nationwide.
Jefferson City reporter says four dangerous convicts tunneled through walls and a six foot brick barrier during a thunderstorm and fled the penitentiary. The fugitives named are William Webber murder suspect Tom McCall Tom Pinnery and Harry Horria. A posse is pursuing them.
A historic ad claims severe rheumatic pains disappear with Hand's Sersaparius, touted as a long time blood tonic. The text, though garbled, promotes the tonic’s direct action on the blood and joints, promising relief from muscle and joint pain through a claimed digestion and cleansing process.
An old time remedy promises rapid headache relief and easing of neuralgia and dull throbbing pain. The ad invites sending someone to the drugstore for the powder, claiming almost magical head clearing effects.
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