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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
2
Window displays invite shoppers to find the perfect gifts with notable wording on half price childrens dresses coats and wool skirts. Children’s Day features 1 2 price sales on gingham chambray percale dresses sailor outfits and coats 2 to 14. Art dept offers fine hand embroidered handkerchiefs in plain scalloped and initial designs at up to 75 cents.
We announce to customers within 50 miles that the new parcel post rate takes effect nationwide on January 1 1913. Packages up to eleven pounds cost 35 cents postage and the supplier will cover the difference from the current regular rate. Send mail orders now.
A large assortment of ribbons offered at 25 cents per yard, marked down from 35 to 50 cents. Includes fancy and plain patterns, 5 to 6 inches wide, suitable for Christmas work and hair ribbons. Stock features fine grade materials and choice designs.
Pendletons Cleanest Best Grocery offers asparagus fancy white 30¢ can lobsters new pack 35¢ crab meat fresh and fancy cans 25¢ and 40¢ salad dressing Mrs Porters home made oil free bottled 25¢ and 45¢ plum pudding Franco American cans 35¢ and 65¢ fig pudding home made cans 15¢ and 25¢ fish salts for fish balls creamed fish cans 15¢ and exceeded text truncated.
La Grande Ore December 6 The city council opened its budget talks and proposed a 16 mill levy for 1913 matching the 1912 level. The plan allocates six mills general fund three mills sinking fund five and a half mills for special bonds and small amounts for park library court and street interest. The ordinance heads to the finance committee for review.
United States Geological Survey reports describe Alaska mineral resources in Bulletin 20 by Alfred H. Brooks and others. Thirteen survey parties worked in 1911 across 8,000 square miles of geologic surveys and 14,460 square miles of topographic recon, with streamflow stations in the Yukon-Tanana region and work spanning Copper River basin and Prince William Sound.
City proposes an ordinance to license all dance halls with quarterly fees, ban certain dances, and set rules including 1 am closing, liquor restrictions, and age 18 attendance limits without guardian. Transfers allowed. applications require location and ownership details. private hosts may be exempt from fees.
A London Express piece explains Bernard Shaw’s fondness for homespun suits arose after two black sheep gifted by friends produced wool. Sheep multiplied, wool flowed, and Shaw clothed actors and friends until politics and finances limited the supply. Shaw joked of breeding wealth like Shylock, while a disease note closes with a medicine advertisement.
W K Rodgers captain of the Portland Coast league club and W K Shangle ex world foot racing champion camp near La Pine Oregon for months of outing. They hunt ducks trap and admire La Pine country scenic wonders Crane Prairie and Cultus Mountain. From Cultus Mountain peak 19 lakes and 11 snow peaks are visible and the sky is clear for most of the year.
Mme Sarah Bernhardt arrives in New York with 25 French actors for a vaudeville tour. About 800 French admirers greet her as the Savoie docks. She exclaims I am so happy to be back once more, noting she hardly looks older than two years ago.
Pasadena clubwomen study after effects of a pure food luncheon by Dr Margaret Goettler at the Shakespeare club where candy made of bran and coffee from bananas were served. She urged stopping coffee with cream and sugar and switching to whiskey as less injurious. She said food reformers are called goats for using tops of chests and celery and would rather be a healthy goat than a sick woman.
Mme Bernardt arrives in America after a long voyage, rosy with a bouquet of chrysanthemums and American Beauty roses. She confirms this will not be a farewell tour and heads to Chicago for a matinee, with Martin Beck and Edward Sullivan guiding her party.
The institution pledges to aid patrons of all means in every financial need. It emphasizes understanding customers, offering a service for every community member, and inviting talks about suitable financial solutions.
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