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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1913
Page
2
Four new spring waist styles arrive in two grades of pongee. Domestic pongee plain shirt waist with long sleeves priced at 2.95. Imported pongee nearly raw silk waist with patch pocket and Bulgarian plaid silk option at 4.00. Untrimmed solid pongee version with four in hand tie at 4.25. Styles emphasize durability and comfort.
New gold laces and bandings with bead trimming and braid trimmings in buckle and button effects arrive to match spring dress goods. Handsome shadow lace flouncings in white and Paris shades. All trimmings are effective and moderately priced. Silk for shirtwaist and dresses, 36 inches wide, neat assortments in striped colors, wears well. Yard stock noted.
The ad promotes practical house dresses fabric in assorted colored stripes that won’t fade and need no ironing. It also advertises a large shipment of white linens from sheets and tubing to handkerchief linen and Irish linen. Prices and selection emphasize linen goods for home use.
Sanitary packages of M. and M. Saratoga Chips offered per package at 5¢ with fresh express shipment. Fancy dried beef sliced to order by the pound at 40¢. Fireproof ware advertised at limited stock, price held 1-2 price. Eastern Oregon Model Grocery reports a large shipment of Golden West Lemon and Vanilla extracts with 2 oz bottles, prices listed.
Paris February 5 French upheaval sees Mille rand and Del Cass e depart while Floin care and Briand rise. Briand, chosen by Poincare, remains premier and will back the predecessor's policy. Briand a lawyer by training has led the judiciary and, at 50, carries wide public experience.
The text notes a role as chief secretary of the committee that formulated the law of exclusion against the Sisters of Charity.
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst labeled Chancellor Lloyd George a hypocrite and traitor at a mass meeting in the London Pavilion. She endorsed vandalism against golf links and said the suffragette campaign would resume after a votes for women bill, though government officials and Premier Asquith had allowed its withdrawal in the Commons.
London and Dublin stories reveal inquiries into English civil service appointments. A Dublin applicant for an ambulance nurse post claimed kinship with board members, prompting a royal commission to examine patronage and caste influences in official hiring.
A discussion reveals that top posts are given to individuals with political or social influence rather than merit. A representative asked Lord Macdonnell if department heads favor a specific social class, and the reply confirms a bias toward those recruited from elite circles, with examples from Oxford and Cambridge.
In Long Beach and Los Angeles on February 6 a itinerant minister known as Rev. D. Griffith Shepherd was driven out of town by a self styled vigilante group. He was escorted to the interurban station and told to leave on the first car amid threats of force if he returned. Shepherd had been jailed twice previously for alleged obnoxious conduct but released at the women’s request. He claimed memory loss each time.
A Feb fire in Marshfield Oregon destroyed the Donaldson building at Central Avenue and Broadway. The Lloyd hotel was threatened. Mrs Bertram, wife of a jeweler, was severely burned trying to rescue her child from the second story where a living room was located. Her child was brought down unharmed. Two other children were rescued.
Mrs. Anna Eliza Dale, a Portland pioneer, has lived in a mossy cottage at 105 North Thirteenth for five decades. Now 80, she plans to move to Seattle with her granddaughter, reflecting on a city that has changed from log cabins to countless cars. She recalls candle making, soap, and woodwork, and notes her husband’s death and burial in St. Mary’s cemetery. Her daughter, Mrs. Zeke Matthews, lives in Pendleton.
The Orpheum presents a four-reel bill headlined by O'Hara Helps Cupid, a Vita graph romance where O'Hara aids two hearts to unite. Alkali Ike in Jayville Basanay stars Augustus Carney in a famed comedy with El eanor Blanchard Lily Branscombe and Howard Missimer. Twilight of Her Life from Lubin shows enduring love. The Hollow Tree follows a money theft tale where a tramp and a falsely accused blacksmith lead to a tree hideout and police intervention.
A four reel drama starring the great French actress Sarah Bernhardt will be shown at the Pastime today and tomorrow with no change in admission prices. The feature presents the tragic romance between Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, ending with the queen’s heartbreak and the headsman’s axe.
A one reel program features Ambrosia and Cozy on Wednesday and Thursday with Arabian Infanty and a thrilling lion chase in Africa. A trained dog participates while 101 Bison and Cowboy Sports and Pastimes showcase bucking bulldogging and other cowboy sports. Also screening Hilly Jones of New York Champion with views of New York streets. Crystal presents Locked Out and Picnic In Dakota with Sheridan's ride 101 Bison in three reels.
Berlin reports two year old Friedy Gaertner starved herself to death after believing her fiancé deserted her and went to the United States months ago. Police found the emaciated child in a suburban room, death attributed to self-starvation amid delusion.
A druggist offers a refund if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itching bleeding prolapsing or protruding piles within six to fourteen days. The ad emphasizes quick relief and a money back guarantee to customers seeking relief from piles.
A woman was found dead in a house after being without food for days over more than a week. Neighbors reported the property's poor condition and hunger signs before authorities were alerted. The death is being investigated by local police as a possible case of neglect.
The College of Journalism founded by the late Joseph Pulliver has completed construction and begun instructional activity in its historic walls. The piece argues journalism demands stronger safeguards and prestige, fostering responsibility, public trust, and community benefit.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial extols journalism as more than news gathering, framing it as a mentor that shapes public sentiment and corrects the day’s discourse, and praises the enduring value of journalism as an efficient information machine.
Classified notice requests readers to bring or mail old rage to the East Oregonian office at their earliest convenience, signaling a large lot and clean items for purchase.
An old medical ad asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It claims most cases stem from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and offers a $100 reward for any catarrh deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure from FP F. Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio, with pills also recommended for constipation.
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