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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1911
Page
3
Umbrellas For Gifts offers a merchandise certificate redeemable anytime in any store area. The note promotes a practical gift for men and women and highlights tomorrow's specials with prices such as 2.19 82.47 83.958 5.00 and 7.98.
Men and gifts feature bath robes and smoking jackets with a fire sale offer. Evening window promises half price on a choice of items. Great for personal use or as a gift, highlighting comfort and style.
Attractive new table ware featuring a peppy ribbon striped pattern with plain center and matching napkins. Table length about 2 1 2 yards with 1 dozen napkins, Xmas box priced at 15.00 or 16.50 with suits and overcoats also on sale. Give a suit or overcoat to brother, father or son as prices are reduced this evening.
An assortment of prices and items offered including Choice Ripe Navel Oranges dozen, Home Made Salad Dressing, Fancy Ripe Olives pint 25¢, Jelly and Jams cans 15¢ to 25¢, and dinnerware sets by Johnson Bros. Veronace Hic cs $18.75, Plain White sets from $6.50, Star Cut Glasses and Pitcher $2.00, with various small-priced kitchenware items listed.
A local fur showroom advertises a large selection of neckpieces and muffs in Mink Narobia Lynx Isabella Fox French Coney and more. Prices span 3.50 to 35.00 with children’s sets and small items listed at 2.00 to 7.00.
Gift ready gloves priced from 1.50 to 4.50 and long gloves from 3.50 to 4.50. The Peoples Warehouse offers certificates for any amount so recipients can choose later. Suit department features plain tailored models navy and black serges with prices from 19.95 to 37.00.
Richmond announces Captain Sallie Tompkins the only woman commissioned in the Confederate military service has been elected a member of Lee Camp Confederate Veterans unanimously. She established and funded Robertson Hospital treating 1300 wounded between July 1861 and June 1865. Proceedings note her service and Davis’s appointment.
Ambitious young men and women can enter wireless or railroad telegraphy as the eight hour law takes effect and stations expand nationwide. The National Telegraph Institute of Portland, under supervision of R, BR and, offers beginner pay from 10 to 90 dollars monthly with good advancement prospects.
Mrs Rachael Marcus, described as a sprightly 105 year old New York socialite, plans to ask President Taft to dance at the Seventy-fleet Regiment armory ball on January 27 for the Home of the T Daughters of Jacob. A bright centenarian figure, she embodies the era’s social spotlight at the charity event.
Columbia University professor warns against encouraging violence saying boys enjoy fighting and urges adults to curb rough games. The Los Angeles discussion notes cautionary guidance around youth conduct.
Austin, Tex. Governor Colquitt pardoned Jack McKinney, once sentenced to ten years for forgery, after his prison writings and the Alcalde Chronicle he published from Rusk penitentiary urged reform. He used poetry and material to persuade inmates to live straight lives and seek fewer chances for crime.
The subject’s short verse on a prisoner’s longing and happiness drew the governor toward granting a pardon. Governor Colquitt also writes poetry. A folk remedy tip advises warmth and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy to ward off a cold. For sale by all dealers.
A mysterious man in a green touring car roams Boston’s South End by night and scavenges gutters by day for pennies nails nails and cigar butts. Residents report he amasses a living from gutter picks and guard against his secretive prowling.
A mysterious stranger shrugs and says he is a Norwe Finn. Thos. BE. Williams of Middleboro Kentucky writes that two years of constipation baffled Bristol Tennessee physicians until two packages of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets cured him. For sale by all dealers.
Boston report details 72 year old manufacturer Thomas Martin who holds a world record for transatlantic travel as a passenger. Since 1870 he has crossed the ocean at least twice yearly, sometimes five times, totaling over 200 Atlantic crossings and more than 600000 miles aboard ocean liners. He and Mrs. Martin have spent at least $60000 on trips, driven by leisure and rest from work.
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