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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
3
Five days remain before Christmas shopping peaks with large afternoon crowds. The store promotes desirable Christmas goods, caring service, and gifts that create the right impression rather than cheap items. It highlights newer, up to date lines and practical, well-made gifts backed by quality and service.
A fragment lists knitted hose, dress gloves, neckwear, slippers, suspenders, scarf pins, cuff links under Rufnek TM with prices from 8 dollars to 4 dollars. Shirts are priced at 1.00 to 4.00 in varying amounts.
A claim that new parcel post rates take effect nationwide January 1st and promise to mail eleven pounds of merchandise for 35 cents within fifty miles. The seller will cover the difference between current and proposed rates, leaving customers only 35 cents to pay.
A plain notice advertises parcel wrappings and related supplies including boxes ecards seals tags tissue paper and more. The description emphasizes an inexpensive range intended to meet all demands and directs attention to the first floor location.
A merchandise certificate may be sold for any amount and is most acceptable as it lets the recipient choose the face value. The certificate appeals to buyers seeking flexible gift options.
The notice explains express or parcel shipping options with free uml service and a variable rate for delivery. A sales representative will assist a veteran customer in arranging the delivery as desired.
We show a very complete line beginning at 5 for 35c or 3 for 1.00 a fine silk double heel and toe in black tan and grey. Available colors include red green grey taupe and tan. At 50c plain black and tan fancy mixtures very fine quality. Everwear hose at 75c 4 1/2 for 3? a Wayne Knit pure black imported weave at 1.00 heavy weight silk hose praised for men.
A catalog style notice promotes women's wear in a reality themed department. It highlights tailored suits discounted from up to 20 to 30 dollars to prices around 9.75 14.75 and coats from 6.95 to 14.75 with mentions of semi fitted Johnny models and blue material tones aimed at Ter or She shoppers.
A couple on their honeymoon visited the town unsure about making it their home. Mrs. Hunter left the husband wearing a $120 diamond ring and carrying $10 in her purse, reflecting their tentative plans and financial state during the trip.
The Orpheum runs Martin Chuzzlewlt in three reels from Edison Co for Tuesday. The program promises a clear faithful screen version of Dickens with notable characters. Also shown is The Professor and the Lady, Vita graph, underscoring bravado and romance as the professor wins the lady.
A Tuesday program introduces The Way of the Mountains a romantic drama set in a mountain neighborhood. Captain Barnacle is regarded as a reformer in Edison style stories with a risky rescue by Uncle Mum in a fire sequence. Cutting California Redwoods is presented as a distinct feature.
On Wednesday and Thursday Victor presents The Lady Leone in two reels with Miss Florence Lawrence and Owen Moore in The Fugitives. A grim Sing Sing story titled Hooarts and Skirts appears from Nestor. Friday brings A Four-Footed Hero in two reels with cowboys and ranch humor.
London The Bull Moose of British politics and the Roosevelt of England are terms used by American admirers. Lloyd George has received hundreds of letters since proposing a provisional promise to visit Pittshore next year. He may travel as far west as Chicago if he goes, and could accept several invitations.
Beattie L Hunter of Portland seeks his six day bride Beasste Hunter who disappeared after sending a suicide note to husband Joe Hunter. Police scour San Francisco and surrounding districts aboard patrols along the bay while Mrs Hunter, unhappy due to health, had planned treatment with Dr Strange in San Francisco. The couple wed in Vancouver Washington six days prior and had no quarrel, according to Hunter who found the note urging forgiveness and stating she could not endure married life.
New York December 18 The American public will get a tutor and tutress in eating sleeping walking and dressing. Lillian Russell and her husband Alexander P Moore plan a California bound uplift train tour with a moving picture operator to record lessons on boarding trains proper attire posture child care and demeanor for women. Moore will demonstrate how men should escort their wives and sweethearts as part of the program creating a public education in refined behavior.
Paris December 18 two middle aged women proclaiming descent from Louis XVI attempted suicide by shooting themselves near the president's palace in the Campus El yees area. They claim to be Dauphin descendants denied recognition of their throne claims. Inquiries indicate they are insane and formerly ran a Nantun millinery shop ruined by treasure hunting.
Washington December 18 The treasury department is besieged by banks merchants and citizens seeking brand new money for Christmas The treasury reports ready supply of gold coins and paper money but silver is limited The west favors gold coins the south favors silver and paper money and many firms prepay before Christmas to meet the holiday demand
A monoplane from Hanworth aviation grounds to Oxford crashed near Wembley and fell 10 feet onto the Wembley golf course. Lieutenant W Parks of the Royal Navy and Manchester Hardwick of an aeroplane company were killed. Hundreds witnessed the accident and aided in recovering the bodies.
In New York on December 18 at Farminations, nine students from local high schools could not multiply one by one after a recent arithmetic test. The report highlights persistent gaps in basic math skills among students in the area.
A strained report from Professor Louis Bian of Columbia University analyzes 190 pupils and finds 107 failed when tested by one-tenth and 127 could not divide one-tenth by one-tenth. The data show 28 of the 140 could not multiply zero by one.
Washington December 18 statistics from the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce show per capita sugar use this year at about seven pounds, up sharply from 84 in 1916, 59 in 1900 and 39.50 in 1880. total sugar consumption will exceed 40,000,000,000 pounds with costs near $400,000,000. shipments split among the United States, Hawaii and Porto Rico, and foreign sources, notably Cuba. beet sugar production climbs to 1,400,000,000 pounds from 1,000,000,000 in 1910.
New York Housewives' League declares 26 cents enough for keys and price must drop. The league, claiming 50,000 members, fixes a fit and reasonable price for cell storage, with president Mrs. Julian Heath saying they will supply goods at their own price if storekeepers fail to lower costs.
Alfalfa ranch near Hecho Oregon advertises for Kent readers. It produced 1050 tons of hay this year and offers rental for one or more years. Requires six to eight horvexs and a haying outfit and some capital. Write or phone A B Thomson Hecho Ore.
The Board of Underwriters of the Pacific offers a reward of 500 dollars for the detection conviction and punishment within six months from today of the person who set fire to the premises of D. G. Smith about seventy miles from Pendleton in Grant county.
A historical ad promises a one hundred dollar reward for any catarrh cure Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot achieve. It features J. J. Cheney & Co and F. Cheney with signatures, plus a National Bank of Commerce endorsement. The copy touts internal tablets for catarrh, with testimonials and a 75 cent price, and ends with a stray line about drives of a terror.
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