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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1922
Page
5
Mail order shopping promotes Glove Bond gift option allowing recipients to select sizes locally. Advertises PHOENIX SELES hosiery and silk blend items, including ties and fancy stockings, with assorted colors and gift packaging. Prices range from $1.75 to about $4.85, highlighting convenient prepaid service and direct mailed sales.
A sprawling holiday display promises overflow of Christmas gifts across every department. Personal use items and home goods are offered in vast assortments, aiming to solve the gift problem with quality merchandise and a year’s best variety.
Toyland is aglow with Christmas cheer as a big happy Santa in a red suit greets children. The jolly figure invites every boy and girl to visit, chat, and share in the holiday fun.
A large selection of new Christmas greeting cards is now on view in the village shop, offering seasonal designs for all tastes. The collection features traditional scenes, humorous motifs, and elegant minimalist cards suitable for personal and business use.
Merchandise certificates offered as practical gifts with no fixed amount. Jewelry and trinkets priced from 1.00 to 0.50 dollars and beauty pins and hair ornaments also advertised. Aiming to please recipients with attractive items, including brooches, clasps, and rings priced 75 cents to 2.25 dollars.
Last minute selection of umbrellas and ladies silk wear offered in green teal brown blue and black with rib frames and fancy handles. Children's and misses tam erellas in bride colors and quality silks with heavy trances and fancy handles priced from 8.00 to 18.75 as the assortment dwindles for Christmas.
A movement led by prominent eastern Oregon citizens urges renaming the Columbia River to reflect regional interests. Portland Chamber backs the plan with encouragement from Alexander and others, settling on a new highway alignment that would extend from the Willamette to the Missoula river, linking major routes and spurring development. officials caution that state gains hinge on unified action amid political tension.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a Brom o Quixine tablet product with a signature EE W Grove on the box. The stray text mentions names and phrases like manage grip or infection and preventive action, but details are unclear and no sale or legal action is specified.
Pendleton high school students traveled from La Grande to attend the annual older boys conference. Participants listed include Richard Arnheart, Karl Planthine, Trex Kramer, Olen Blaine, Ivan Ba Hie, Layton Mann, Eugene Gray and Mark Evans. Arnheart was elected conference vice president.
The article notes unprecedented postal holiday activity with mail early campaigns boosting December receipts by about 3 million dollars. Extra space, vehicle use, clerk hires, and stamps cost roughly 3.0 million, 500 thousand for vehicles, and 1.0 million for clerks, plus 450 thousand for carriers, all aimed to handle busy season before December 25. A storm could delay deliveries and add costs, with New York reporting 500 thousand extra for motor transport. The post office projects Deliver all Christmas small packets by December 25.
The foreign division of the New York post office handles over eight hundred thousand pieces daily with 26000 letters and 94000 items abroad. 1927 records show 71,759 registered articles sent overseas in one day. The report notes extensive overseas business ties and kinship networks.
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