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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1911
Page
2
Our store promotes a record year with large stock and planned renovations. After Christmas sales left excess inventory including odd pieces and massed goods like handkerchiefs and white items. Mild winter stock must go now with plain tailored models in brown and grey, sizes vary, new styles will move quickly.
Beginning Thursday morning December 28 all goods purchased will go on your next month's agc ent. This sale highlights opportunities to buy dependable needed and wanted goods at economies created by store keeping necessity.
Shoes priced at 4.00 and 2.98 feature patent leather toes and genuine welt soles. Kid button boots at 3.65 and 2.75 with welt soles and patent caps. Gun metal button shoes 2.73 also on clearance. all items advertised as up to date and comfortable.
One of the largest fur selections in Oregon outside Portland features new muffs neckpieces and sets with clearance prices ranging from 2.00 to 30.00 per item. Includes exclusive styles and guaranteed quality in a bold display.
Plain and fancy coats in navy brown tan gray and black about twenty pieces. Clearance prices from 1.98 to 9.75, with many items previously valued up to 33 dollars. Special lot brown and green mixtures offered as a bar gain at 1.98.
The interior department issued a ruling allowing homestead entries under the reclamation act to relinquish part of their farm units and credit payments on the relinquished portion to the retained part. The change promotes subdivision of large units into smaller farms, aiding small farmers and boosting intensive cultivation and home-building opportunities.
A Vermont grocer, G. O. Abbott, accidentally fuels his car with maple syrup after mixing it with motor oil. The incident, cited as evidence of syrup’s lubricating properties, follows broader notes on irrigation underflow and underground water resources benefiting farmers in Reno and nearby Kansas counties.
A Slatehaven Kansas report notes a water sheet near the surface within ten feet and extending to a depth of seventy feet. The text implies groundwater or seepage concerns requiring a surface pump solution. Further details are incomplete due to fragmentary OCR.
In Canadian county Oklahoma a pauper named Jacob Randall found a hidden roll of $10,000 inside an artificial wooden leg given by the dying Alexander P. Hamilton a fellow pauper at the poor farm. Randall learned of the fortune after Hamilton's death and the discovery occurred at the farm several years ago.
Denver waitress reports S100 in tips saved over two years were diverted by a co-worker. The case details ongoing investigations as authorities seek restitution and file charges.
In a cafe a woman named Mite Cole describes her plan to save tips in ten cent coins until she amasses 100 dollars to buy a fur coat. The store proprietor notes the difficulty of counting many dimes and recalls the lengthy effort to collect them.
Arthur Bibbs, a bank clerk at the Northern Crown Bank in Central Park Vancouver, heard a rear door rattle at midnight. He fired with a pistol at two masked robbers, one bullet wounding him in the hand. the pair fled into an alley and vanished. Bibbs was taken to a hospital.
New York reports the census showing a male majority in the United States. It notes numbers: 47,922,122 males versus 44,322,122 females, detailing a clear male advantage. The article explores possible causes and implications of the gender imbalance.
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