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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1902
Page
8
A promotion notes bargains that ease the pocket book and offer shoes that wear. Ladies shoes priced at 2.50 and 1.45 and 1.40, men’s styles also advertised as cheap but good, promising value for shoppers facing tight budgets.
Dindinger Wilson Co marks itself as successor to Cleaver Bros in a brief business notice. The ad lists contact as Phone Black 1 and notes continuation of established local services. The terse item signals continuity and new branding in the neighborhood commerce.
The notice extols classified advertisements for buyers sellers and job seeks with low costs starting at 15 cents. It urges readers to place want ads for trading renting hiring selling and lost animals to reach 1000 to 6000 people and maximize value with minimal expense.
A compact note urges considering advertising as a profitable option. It emphasizes the potential return on investment and suggests that an ad could be a worthwhile expenditure. The text frames ads as a practical business move.
Denver readers laugh as Professor Woolsey-Darrett Slane recounts a beard collecting trip in New Mexico and Arizona. A horned toad ends up in a shoe, shocking him in the desert tent, then caused a morning chaos when he tries to wear the shoe with the toad still inside. His wife recalls the mishap with humor. The tale is part of a playful account of his travels and eccentricities.
Rev A L Havelett a Methodist preacher from Colorado City Cal returns from the Philippines where he studied moral conditions under General MacArthur and the secretary of war report. He praises Manila stating it is the best governed city he has seen and notes a drop in drunkenness with saloons reduced to 108 under strict oversight.
The United States plans a wireless telegraph system to boost commerce by linking Tatoosh Island at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca with Port Crescent, a 60 mile span. Construction on Tatoosh Island has begun and work at Port Crescent will start soon.
Pendleton men in the baseball drive secured fifteen $50 subscriptions on Monday afternoon, adding to $300 carried from last year. The stock of the newly incorporated company will start the season with $1,000 in hand. Local managers report ample player availability and no need to sign with outside firms at high salaries.
Athens builds faith in its Yellow Bill lineup as manager Osburn announces signatures from key players including Rol Brown Hastings Net Edwin F Chapler Pendleton Earl Saunders Dan Shea Jess Vaughan Hert Cartano Frank Willard George D Brown James Cox Lawrence Lieuation Adams and others signaling a strong season start with familiar faces and new contracts.
County Clerk Chamberlain returns from Athena while W S Wakefield travels to Eastern Washington on business. Numerous locals including Bentley, Cappock, Elbert Thompson, J W McGee, A Lowell, L Smith, Bernard Balsley, Clyde Owiense, Ida Hahlin, Bert Carl, George Carl, C B Ferguson, Shelly Jones, S B Calderhead and James Wright are noted for returns, lectures, business trips, and shipments.
The New York Mail and Express reports a woman's calm leadership aboard a crowded tunnel car near Thirty-fourth Street. A puff of smoke spurred panic until a passenger reassured others with the line We are ante, soothing a trembling girl and guiding all to stay seated. The car exited the tunnel, and the calm behavior likely saved lives.
A Chicago tally news item notes Governor Geer faced protests from friends over the use of the expression Bimon Geer, deemed unwarranted. The piece mentions a salty shore scene with Reginald Derting and a stranded boat, adding a brief, vivid interruption.
The Umatilla County sheriff conducted the annual tax sale Monday at the courthouse for real estate and personal property with 1900 taxes due and delinquent. Forty four parcels were sold for a total of 144 dollars, while the total taxes against them were 10.07 dollars, nearly erasing the delinquency and leaving the county with minimal loss on the year’s taxes.
Court remains in session with several days expected. The forenoon docket opened with Senator Mitchell and Ed Chapman charged together with the crime of stealing. The case to still hanging tire.
Chronic nasal catarrh poisons every breath. Ely's Cream Balm applied in the nostrils soothes inflamed surfaces, cleanses, heals and cures. Cold in the head vanishes instantly. available from druggists or by mail for 50 cents from Ely Brothers, Warren Street, New York.
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