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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1919
Page
5
Ban Francisco reports the Northwest Coast League will start a 26 week schedule on April 1, continuing through October 5. The schedule was announced after the matter had been under discussion.
Advertising copy touts Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle laxative. It claims they ease constipation without calomel and improve digestion by stimulating bowel and liver action. The ad promises quick, pleasant results from taking one or two tablets at bedtime.
In Seattle a planned general strike is set for Thursday signaling the Pacific Coast's first broad action if organizers succeed. About 64 000 workers including 25 000 in metal trades are described as ready to walk out in Tacoma and other points while unions report divisions within their ranks. Meanwhile J L Smith faces new charges over a quarrel case in Spokane and Gold Beach suffers major fire damage destroying the county seat’s telephones exchange and most retail stores.
In Chignagoff Alaska a 217 resident town watched the first movie ever shown there. The crowd counted 217 at the debut, marking a historic cinema moment for the 217 people living in the town.
A grandmother’s recipe for Sage and Sulphur Compound promises quick, natural darkening of gray hair. The advertisement touts Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur as easy to apply, with results seen by morning and a lustrous, even tone after successive uses.
A program at the Alta theater today features the film Kies or KU about a wounded veteran seeking work in New York after discharge. The bill also includes The House of State serial with Pearl White and Antonie Mering, The Hooded Terror, The Falls Eyes, Fatty Cleans Up, and The Ham Artist, presenting a mix of thrills, drama, and comedy.
The piece notes that golf, often seen as sport for the idle rich, provides health benefits and quick thinking though Lloyd George and President Wilson both use the game to recharge during the Paris peace talks. It describes George playing daily on Paris golf links after morning sessions, renewing vigor for further work.
Mexico, Feb. 5. The gray automobile robber band saga expands as Francisco Oviedo dies in a federal prison cell. Six prisoners, including Oviedo, were charged as gang members. one man killed himself in custody while Rafael Mercadante reportedly offered to confess before dying. The gang terrorized streets using disguises, stopping vehicles to rob occupants with rifle fire on major routes like Paseo de la Reforma. A society woman reported a jeweled necklace stolen by the band, later claimed to be a gift from an admirer.
Fragmentary report describes robbers surrounded in a house raid in a foreign colony. A key state witness, crucial to the case, dies before truth is disclosed, with Mercadante and Ovideo noted among those involved.
Albany Democrat notes a Spanth Influenza outbreak spreading through South Africa jungles. A letter to John MacHurd mentions many white and black residents affected and animal deaths among monkeys. Another India letter reports widespread European and Asiatic fatalities.
Hagland's log army lauds war dogs that carried messages under fire. Since early 1917 Britain trained dogs at a war office school led by Lt Col Richardson. Dogs served as messengers, kept spirits up, and braved shell fire to relay vital orders across rough terrain.
Paria reports a brutal 75 persons killed during an Apache raid at Bolivar underground station amid a March air raid. The tragedy, described as the deadliest single raid on Paris in 1918, sees women and children among the casualties as panicked victims trample and bombs ignite, with 296 total Paris deaths that year and 792 wounded.
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