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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1911
Page
2
The advertisement promotes holiday shopping with bold claims of dependable goods and a reputation for merit. It urges readers to shop in the mornings to receive better service and access to the store’s ample, overflowing stock, noting that popular items sell quickly.
A local grocer offers gloves in numerous leathers, colors, and styles for women and children for Xmas. The store highlights imported and domestic gloves, Xmas neckwear, lace collars, embroidered linen collars, jabots, and frill sets. Also featured are messaline petticoats, Jersey top tule, and new children’s Xmas sets in Angora and Coney fur, with prices from 25¢ to $7.50.
The Orpheum shows a fine Tuesday bill with Washington Relief from American Pathé, Fridolin the Walk to the Iron Foundry from Gaumont, and The Principality of Monaco in Monte Carlo scenes. Also featured are Pals’ Esanuy with Jack Wells and Fred Hall, Git a Hoss with Mary Conway, A Chalice Shet Kalem western, His Better Self love drama, A Puritan Courtship, Moarriage about witchcraft era, and The Masqueraders comedy with body swap capers.
A brief notice describes a Tuesday program change at the Biograph featuring a tale set in the Tennerre mountains with a girl courted by two suitors. One is a stern fiancée type, the other a village fiddler. The lovers plan to run away but face an obstacle before their escape.
Fragmented OCR story notes describe Cosy Monday and Tuesday performances and themes of moonshine, marriage tensions, and a moonshiner capture. A farmer seeks divorce, an esquire steps in, and a revenue officer pursues a moonshine trail leading to a cabin where a romance with Bens unfolds.
Mrs Anna Godfrey 24 years old left home in a Weetz Seventeenth Street alley cottage to find work after her husband fell ill. She cut her hair and wore his clothes to appear as a man, hoping to obtain a farm hand job near Rogers Park. Municipal Judge John R. Caverly praised her bravery, dismissing the disorderly conduct charge and offering to find a home for her children if needed. The case recalls her years of hard labor in Germany and in America to support her family as her husband’s health failed.
John L. Whitman, a prison reform advocate and bridewell superintendent, urged volunteers to donate skin for grafting to save Jerry Demansky’s life. Fifty four men offered. three youths began the operation, from whose thighs skin was taken to cover Demansky’s arm. Demansky expressed gratitude as doctors planned the rest.
A traveling menagerie crate in the city held a mother possum and four young, snug inside their nest. The young possums were born in their native tropics and remained in the nest as the crate traveled to this region.
In Yonkers at 16 Central avenue a group of nine women led by Mrs Lucy Lemaniao attacked Constable Thomas Lee, tearing clothing, biting him repeatedly and beating him as bystanders watched. Lemaniao, operator of the saloon for Yonkers Brewing Co, allegedly helped orchestrate the assault. The constable was carried through the streets and left injured. Lemaniao was jailed.
Berlin activists press for recognition of distinguished German women as New Year honors approach. They note the Kaiser awards nobles and decorations on January 1, 1912, but no German woman has been included.
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