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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1912
Page
4
Reasons to shop the Ready-to-Wear section include practical articles and low prices. Features include heavy messaline pet ticoats in blue brown green and black for 2.95, messaline waists from 1.49 to 4.50, and dress skirts at 3.00, all in festive holiday shades.
Practical high grade bed quilts in full size with fringe options and broad price range 98 cents to 33850. Children's quilts “Genuine Muarsielles” crib size with Mother Tab bard rhymes imprint offered at 1.75. Kimona Silks imported Jap Silk for kimonos 36 inches wide in red navy Copenhagen all silk priced per yard at 75 cents.
To our customers within fifty miles the new United States Parcels Post Law goes into effect January 1 1915. We will mail to any one within fifty miles of Pendleton packages up to eleven pounds for only 5 cents. We will pay the difference between the present rate and the new rate, saving you 35 cuts. Send your mail orders to Ws.
A fragmented price line shows multiple items with per unit costs ranging from 1 m to 25¢ and 45¢ for Stringless items, including mentions of 720¢ and 15¢. The readable portion suggests a catalog-like listing or advertisement pricing in a historical newspaper page.
Bright laundry bags and cre tone fabrics advertised as useful gifts. Describes shoe bags hat bags and bag varieties in multiple colors and cre tones. Prices shown from 9¢ yard to 12¢ with silk line material at 10¢ per yard and many patterns available for one day.
Eight new pieces of lace and net pleatings in wide and narrow styles in corn and white. Ward priced at 35 and 50 cents. Ladies silk vests Italian silk embroidered fronts 3.50 plain 2.50. Fancy lisle vests with Irish lace and crochet tops 1.75 and 1.25. Infants gloves in Dents 1.00 Casmere 0.25 to 0.35. Cashmere mittens 0.06, 0.25, 0.35.
Paris December 16. French minister of marine M Delcasse orders ships to be built in dry docks awaiting water to float them. The change follows the 1910 Canton launch mishap where a battleship failed to move from the ways, delaying the ceremony two months until tides aided. Two large dry docks will be built, one at l Orient, for dreadnoughts, a method already used by Japan.
Walter Rutt of Germany and partner Joe Fogler of Brooklyn won the final one mile sprint at the six day bicycle race in Madison Square Garden New York on December 16 with a time of 1 00 2 5. The winning team covered 266 1 miles and 5 laps defeating Bedell Motien Clark Hill Root and Hehr in order.
Jimulments Photoplay previews touch on a historic dispute over a proposed anti Japanese land ownership bill. Sanford plans an immediate push after January legislative session. The measure seeks to bar Japanese from owning or leasing US real estate, tied to earlier conflicts during Roosevelt and Taft administrations.
Orpheum offers Martin Chuzzlewit in three reels by the Edison Co among Tuesday’s lineup. The program also features The Way of the Mountains with Vita graph, Captain Barnacle the Reformer, Thrilling Rescue by Uncle Mum, and Cutting California Redwoods, each dramatized with vivid visuals.
Cosy presents The Blackfoot Conspiracy a dramatic program in 101 Bi son with The Siren's Call to Duty and The First Glass Powers along with Florence Barker in The Gypsy Flirt and a rural comedy Man Wanted Crystal Comedy leads into Coming Wednesday two reels featuring Florence Lawrence and Owen Moore in Princess Leone
Paris reports the French government frets over a falling birth rate that jeopardizes future army strength. In 1908 France had 234,000 recruits, by 1911 only 215,000, as Joseph Reinach told the chamber. Some say decline signals enlightenment, but officials press for both quality and quantity of births.
San Francisco dispatch reports that when Woodrow Wilson takes office on March 4 he is likely to face a new war issue with Japan. State Senator Sanford of Mendocino County plans to reintroduce in the Legislature a measure linked to the Japanese dispute, signaling heightened tensions and possible policy battles in the early administration.
Eddie O Connell of Portland and Ed Warner of La Grande will wrestle in La Grande Wednesday evening in a best two out of three falls match. Warner refereed the O Connell Pincau bout here and challenged O Connell for a handicap match earlier. A $200 purse and a $100 side bet hang on the outcome as local fans plan to attend.
Bennet and Billy Gaffney prepare for a decisive featherweight bout to crown the Pacific coast champion. Bennet, veteran and fearless, defends his title while Gaffney, though young, trusts his defensive style to unsettle the Frisco midget. Evans bans betting and instructs referees to call off all wagers.
The owner offers a general merchandise store for sale in Washington County Oregon at four crossroads near two sawmills. The stock is described as new and clean and the aim is to dissolve a partnership. Address Fdw P Robison Banks OR R F D No 3.
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