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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1916
Page
10
A housewife shares guidance on rotating laundry items to extend wear and prevent overuse of top pieces. She advises lifting other items beneath when putting away clean towels and clothing and applying the same rotation to stockings handkerchiefs and pillow cases. The passage also includes two tested recipes for apple bake pastries and peanut straws with step by step directions.
A promotional excerpt extols daily morning hot water with limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver and bowels. It claims it improves appetite and purifies the alimentary canal, urging all readers to begin with a glass before breakfast and to ingest a quarter pound of limestone phosphate for better health.
An ad invites men and women to become drugless physicians with a thorough course in anatomy physiology electro therapy photo therapy vibration management spondylotherapy and more. Drs MacPherson Williams Blew 122% Grand Ave Portland Ore.
A nostalgic note urges that friends may buy anything except your photograph. If you have a portrait made with good lighting and composition, giving it as a Christmas token brings great pleasure and personal in its gift.
Norman Hapgood and Elizabeth Reynolds announce their engagement in New York. Reynolds, a Russia studies scholar and Columbia lecturer, plans a quiet wedding and a later voyage to Europe aboard the Finland. Hapgood, editor and reformer, has a long career in journalism and public life.
Catarrh cannot be cured with topical applications and must be treated internally. Hall's Catarrh Care is marketed as a trusted internal remedy that acts through the blood to mucous membranes. Promoted by F. J. Cheney & Co for years with testimonials and a Toledo, Ohio address.
In the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon Narcisse Bushman of Pendleton Umatilla County is adjudicated bankrupt on December 11 1914. The first meeting of creditors will be held at the bankruptcy referee’s Pendleton office December 28 1914 at 10:00 a.m. Creditors may attend prosecute claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and conduct other business. Dated Pendleton Oregon December 16 1915 Thos Fitzgerald referee in bankruptcy.
A fragmented collection of home cooking instructions describes a pseudo roast chicken method simmered until tender, then browned with butter. It adds a parsley garnish and notes it should resemble a souffle. Also included is a recipe for apricot jelly with dried apricots, gelatine, sugar, and cream served cold.
North Portland cattle and hog yard activity over Sunday showed a steadier market with higher quotes for some beef cattle. Steers traded around 7.50 to 7.75, best cows about 6.35, hogs held near 9.50 to 9.70 for prime heavy and light, while sheep and lambs moved modestly with lambs near 9.00 to 9.76.
In Eugene Oregon on December 18 local garages note the rail line between Hornbrook California and Portland passes through the city as a coaling station. Trains stop for fuel repairs and for cargo protection on southbound and return trips. Returning cars arrive mud spattered at night with stolen items removed and cargo hidden under canvas. Two machines captured with their cargo in Albany Oregon were brought here.
Dublin Dec 18 George W Russell head of the Irish agricultural department announced at a farmers meeting in Pidalk that exports of breeding sows will be prohibited to safeguard the pig industry. He regrets that a ban on exports of very young pigs cannot be imposed. High English prices and feeding costs tempt Irish farmers to overlook the industry’s future.
In Ireland a two thirds crop of potatoes prompts calls to prohibit export to protect the nation's staple. The government refuses, with Mr. Russell arguing the decision serves Irish farmers and aims to boost food production despite labor shortages. A separate violent incident ends with a three month old baby killed by a crunched skull in a poker dispute, and neighbors intervene to save a woman who gashed her throat after an attack.
Mrs. Hugh Conner killed her child in West Union Iowa as authorities report a fatal incident on a December date. The case is under investigation with local officials investigating motive and circumstances surrounding the tragedy.
In Washington on December 19 the absolute dry bill for the District of Columbia, backed by Senator Smooth, was defeated 61 to five as a substitute for Sheppard’s partially dry measure.
A jumbled Pendleton page lists real estate fire and accident insurers, auctioneers, second hand dealers, and multiple attorneys at law with office notes. It includes North Pacific Railway land offers in Montana and contact details, plus funeral directors and local business addresses.
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