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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1904
Page
2
An old advertisement touts Kilmer Swamp Root as a universal kidney remedy. It claims signs of kidney trouble include back pain and frequent urination, promises relief, and offers sample bottle and free booklet by mail from Kilmer & Co of Binghamton New York. It urges readers to mention the paper.
Reports from Chicago and Sonora describe a 1 1/2 percent pay cut sparking a strike of 1550 American Can Company workers. Miners trapped alive in Zaruma Ecuador after a shaft collapse. Yaqui uprising in Sonora marked by murders and robberies. Michigan expected to open a dumped district to ship fuel and provisions. Typhoid germ survivability in contaminated water tested in Chicago. Mexico restricts border firearms traffic amid crossborder enforcement. A New Jersey rail passenger awarded 43000 by court for personal injuries. International Machinists Union committee blocks Nellie Burke’s admission as applicant member in Wilkes-Barre.
Prisoners in Walla Walla county jail work county roads to serve their terms. An incendiary outbreak terrorizes Dayton. Prominent families faces suspicion over their sons. Chester Welle, Yahoo railway worker, crushed by a crane at New Westminster. A Portland boy named Lewis Sherman eludes masked robbers after a jaywalk earlier. Woman salvage amendment vote falters with low turnout. Mrs Janz robbed at Eugene depot of 7.50 and three gold rings. Judge J H Scott of Marion County gains U S supreme court admission while lobbying Good Roads bill in Washington.
Professor A E Leckenby resigns as superintendent of the Oregon Experiment Farm at Union after a dispute with the board over marketing seed. He will return to Olympia area to cultivate a seed farm, noting decades of soil improvement and breeding efforts including grasses and forages. George Gamble named as his successor as the farm eyes continued progress.
Rain delayed delegates arriving in Fayetteville for the Arkansas Y M C A fourteenth state convention. The formal opening occurred this afternoon with a college conference and sessions run through Saturday night. Prominent speakers include H M Beardsley, Chancellor Frank Strong, Stonewall Anderson, and Lt W McGill. The program is described as the best arranged for the Arkansas association and the event is expected to be highly successful.
Calvin Helig and Joseph McCabe transferred their interest in the Walla Walla opera house to the Walla Walla Amusement Company, filed in Portland, with incorporators Helly McCabe and John Cort. The switch to corporate management brings no expected changes in scheduled shows or theater policy, with the Northwest Theatrical association continuing to control presentations.
All persons knowing themselves indebted to D Kemer and Son will kindly call and settle at once as we need the money. The notice warns creditors to pay promptly and identifies the debtor as D Kemler and Son.
A long hotel arrivals page lists guests from Pendleton Portland Spokane San Francisco and New York with dozens of names including H White S L Ackerman M H Coffee Jonny Nissen C Weyaonth A Meneles J 8 Gurnee Parmon Gardner Alliwon and others. An accompanying testimonial promotes Dr King s New Discovery for consumption claiming a life saving cure with price details and free trial bottles. Also notes leather production figures for Great Britain.
A vintage advertisement extols Cuticura Soap Ointment and Harsolvent for antiseptic cleansing of mucous surfaces blood and fluids to treat weakening ulcers inflammations itchings irritations relaxations displacements and pains in women. It claims restoring health strength and beauty, easing hysteria nervousness and other afflictions, praising the products as standard humure remedies.
An old styled advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for a catarrh remedy that cannot be cured by Halle Catarch Care Koo. It lists Cheney & Co and several wholesalers and druggists in Toledo and nearby towns, urging payment to those who settle debts promptly.
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