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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1917
Page
12
Paris endures its coldest spell of the war as Seine lows halt river traffic and coal runs short. Demonstrations erupt with residents lacking fuel while authorities pledge extra coal. Transport Minister Herriothia to answer questions in the chamber.
Nearly all suffer from constipation at times and rely on regular bowel health. Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is praised as a mild, non narcotic laxative sold for fifty cents a bottle. A reader from Cumberland Maryland confirms its effectiveness and a free trial bottle can be requested by writing to Dr Caldwell.
A damaged, oddly worded report describes a church built in a firing trench near Comblex on the Somme front. It is protected by sandbags, features a wood belfry, a hanging bell, and a tiny statue in a miniature niche, with devotion supposedly signaled by the wind’s direction.
Poet H A Noyes shapes Umapine into poetry praising the town’s rebirth from Indian wars to modern abundance. The piece paints Oregon’s landscape with meadows streams ripe fruit and sweet perfumed air as prosperity grows under changing times.
Chicago on January 30 reports a reform push by the Innote Legislative Women's Congress endorsing an eight hour day and a six day week. The debate highlights Sunday labor fears with housewives facing cold dinners and unmade beds, as A. B. Farwell mobilizes the room by recalling his experience as a milk wagon driver to argue for limits on Sunday labor.
Washington dispatch says destroyers were sent to various ports along the coast to enforce neutrality. The navy department officially denies sending out destroyers to engage in hostile actions.
Readable text outlines multiple kitchen lessons and recipes including veal loaf with parsley, bread and parsley omelet, parched rice with tomato sauce, peach trifle dessert, and a pastry turnover method. Includes instructions for mincing meat, mixing eggs and cheese, cooking times, and garnishes.
Madame Ernestine Schumann Heink to preside over the San Diego Musical Festival with at least five July performances at Spreckels outdoor organ in Balboa Park. She funds part of the guarantee, with John Spreckles and others backing the project. Anton Hoff to train local singers and conductors.
Odvikery committees of the war food bureau in Germany held a two day session to review the food situation. Adolph von Rateck told the president the potato shortage, worsened by transport troubles, is the main difficulty. He noted grain crops were better than 1918 but total nutrition from grain and potatoes is lower, requiring economical feeding. Romania offers shipments but quantities are insufficient, and distribution must be tightly organized. Rateck criticized depredations by greedy people who undermined the food office.
The grain stock is expected to last until the new harvest due to economies now enforced. The war office aims to provide farmers with required laborers, materials, and work animals to sustain production.
A crude remark laments motorists who puncture fire plugs and cause spills. The remark urges compulsion to drink the resulting flow, reflecting stiff public ire over careless actions endangering safety.
Patrons at Landh Counter are organizing the annual spring rhubarb drive. Community volunteers plan collection efforts, gathering supporters and coordinating with local growers for the event.
Sherman L. Whipple selected as counsel for the House committee probing the leak. New England lawyer and Yale graduate born in 1862, with over thirty years of Boston practice and a record as a trial lawyer.
New London February 2 reported that ancestors interned on the German submarine mothership Willehad were repairing the wireless. Officials promptly ordered investigations as the captain denied and claimed he was mending the funnel. Federal authorities had previously disengaged the Whitethod’s wireless.
A campaign blurb touts a corn treatment promising immediate relief with two drops of Maric Getntt and claims a notable difference from older remedies. It emphasizes rapid removal of corns and hints at a long history of corn remedies.
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