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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1913
Page
2
A weary woman stitches in poverty and hunger while singing the Song of the Shirt. She laments endless work for meager wages, comparing life to bondage and prison. The verse contrasts brutal toil with dreams of simple freedoms and the longing for better days.
Portland Feb 4 Special day will be observed to boost soil education and farm betterment across Oregon. February 12 will be Children’s Day in the Country Life movement with school programs and parades. Senate Bill 72 seeks to extend Oregon Agricultural College benefits to every county, via cooperative demonstration farms and expert county partnerships.
An old advertisement promises quick relief from colds by taking laxative bromide quinine tablets. It offers a money back guarantee if the remedy fails. The label warns to look for E. W. Grove’s signature on each box.
Washington experts of the Department of Agriculture publish a guide titled Lessons In Cooking Theoretical and Practical for the Sick and Convalescent by Daniel Sullivan chief of hospital kitchens. The book aids nurses in preparing nutritious broths cutlets and desserts and outlines nutrients and nonnutrients with practical recipes for invalid diets in twelve lessons. It emphasizes appetite quality and proper serving to aid recovery and details proteins carbohydrates fats minerals water and their roles in healing.
Advertisement extols Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder for rest and relief of swollen, aching feet, corns, bunions, and sores. Claims quick comfort for dancing, new shoes, patent leather, and daily wear. Sold everywhere for 25 cents. includes a free sample offer.
Portland report quotes Governor Ernest Lister of Washington advocating less external spending and more actual development of Oregon and Washington. He cites plans for clearing logged-off lands, supports state aid for the San Francisco Panama-Pacific exposition, and favors allocating surplus funds to development projects rather than outside campaigns. He visited The Narrows power site on the Columbia River and will study state deaf and blind schools at Vancouver before returning to Olympia.
An old medical ad states deafness cannot be cured by local apps, but by constitutional remedies. It claims inflammation of the Eustachian Tube causes muffled hearing and that nine of ten cases come from catarrh. The ad offers a $100 reward for any deafness from catarrh not cured by Catarrh Cure and promotes other products by F J Cheney & Co and Hall's Pills.
Governor Lister backed land improvement to support possible Northwest immigration, while avoiding full endorsement of a Columbia River bridge project between Washington and Oregon. The article notes land readiness and affordable farming as keys, and mentions Chamberlains Liniment as a pain remedy with 25 and 50 cent bottles.
The Oberlin College trustees, after a two year faculty committee study, voted to limit the student body to 1000 over the next five years. They cited rising per capita costs and declines in direct personal training, aiming for a more intensive administration and qualitative gains in instruction.
Mrs Inez Lewis of Baring Maine recounts her four month old son's eczema spreading to his face hands and arms and requiring a cloth mask. After using Hood s Sarsaparilla his condition cleared and he grew up healthy. The ad promotes Hood s Sarsaparilla as a cure for blood diseases and a system builder with a liquid form and Sarsataba tablets.
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