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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text provides limited readable content. The item appears to be a brief notice or column snippet with scattered vowels and placeholder fragments, offering no clear names, dates, places, or events to summarize into a coherent news card.
Local notices advertise dry wood and Christmas trees from Minnis and Forshaw, a bread wagon, fresh meats at Houser's market, dining options at Johnson's Restaurant, and a sale at Hunter Furniture with auctions. Rentals include multiple houses and rooms, office spaces, and a five room cottage. Perry Houser opens a new meat market at 124 W Court. A call for large soft rags, transfer work by Stansbery Milne, and piano tuning by D C Durham appear alongside local ads and real estate offers. A land investment pitch offers over 20 000 dollars profit for quick action.
A Washington dispatch notes Senator Heyburn pressing Idaho measures including $100,000 for government buildings at Lewiston and Pocatello, land surveys, boundary lines with Washington, a fish culture station, a park for Coeur d Alene northern reservation, and a second entry provision for settlers hindered by genuine business or personal complications while maintaining bona fide efforts.
The state proposes adding 150 sections of land in Idaho to aid Capitol construction and to reimburse states and territories for sections 16 and 36 when taken for forest or government reserves. It also grants leaves of absence to homesteaders on irrigated lands under the reclamation act until irrigation water reaches main canals.
A reflective note suggests after a large meal people may assume global hunger is non existent. It hints at broader disparities between comfort at home and food insecurity abroad, inviting readers to consider unequal access to nourishment.
Local investors recall the Hurst automatic switch company once based here. John Gilliland, a courthouse janitor, owned 140 shares bought at about 5.80 when par value was 10. Promoters claimed large sales, but returns have not materialized and inquiries to the company were blocked by railroad disruptions.
Judge R A Ballinger reports on dry farming in semi arid regions. He urges a law allowing entry of up to 640 acres for agricultural use where land cannot be irrigated and lacks enough moisture for natural tree growth, restricting entry to semi arid states and territories.
A short snippet discusses what makes good coffee with emphasis on a fresh grind and sensible advice from a consumer perspective. It mentions Schilling's Best coffee and a grocer refund policy if the product is disliked.
A New York backed scheme proposes turning Lewiston into an American showcase by flooding Normal hill with Clearwater river water to form canals that run along the city and feed into the Snake river. Boat elevators would replace locks, part of a plan tied to notable promoters connected to the New York subway and Channel Tunnel efforts. A Commercial club meeting will review the letter outlining the plan.
Horace Havemeyer named head of American Refining company, son of the late Henry C. Havemeyer. State's Attorney Healy of Chicago readies Sunday enforcement to close all saloons, strict adherence to laws.
An old advertisement extols Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a great kidney remedy. It claims kidneys filter blood and that weak kidneys affect the whole body. The ad offers samples, a pamphlet, and urges mentioning the paper when writing to Kilmer & Co in Binghamton New York.
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