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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1912
Page
2
A local store touts a meritorious new dress goods display with a wide range of patterns and colors. Prices run from 65 cents to 75 cents per yard, with selections from $1.25 to $2.25, described as brand new and crisply presented for easy viewing.
Import stock highlighted from 85 cents to 1.50 per yard with two domestic pongee patterns. Describes heavy weight for shirt waists, neat designs, natural shade and a broad selection of pongee fabrics.
The Bon Ton and Royal Worcester corsets promise quality fit and workmanship. The spring line arrives with corsets priced from 1.00 to 5.00, offering assurance on style wear and value for all figures.
A new line of ribbon novelties arrives offering hat trim neckwear corsage bows and sashes. Features brocaded sash ribbons with matching hair bows in white light blue and pink plus fringed sash ribbons in black and white and a broad range of stripes checks and floral designs priced 25 to 100 cents.
Pittsburg scientists at the University of Pittsburg with $140,000 in funding claim to have transformed petroleum hydrocarbons into fatty acids blended with glycerine to make a new edible. Dr Robert Kefinedy Duncan leads six experts in secret research, with results kept by donors for two years and potential future donations to support ongoing studies.
Prof Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago foresees two major conflicts in the Orient within years. He suggests Corea will be a battleground as Russia and Japan clash, and Japan and China prepare for further tension, with Japan cited as overpopulated and the Russian government waiting to strike back.
In Suffolk county court the forty year case Moore v Rawson & Co ends with judgment for the plaintiff estate totalling 544,462. The action, started by James T. Moore against former Boston boot and shoe dealers Daniel T. Rawson & Co, sought a settlement of a partnership account. After decades with no progress, all original parties including judges and counsel have died, Moore dying last year.
Boston women sue for 18000 in damages over bread with a nail and lobsters blamed for illness. Mrs. John Cullen seeks 8000 for a tooth injury from bread while Miss Cassie McNell seeks 10000 for loss of department store employment linked to lobster illness.
Stanfield Oregon February 12 Farmers growers prepare for the Farmers Institute to be held Friday and Saturday at the old schoolhouse now Presbyterian church. Secretary Jack Keefe of Pendleton Commercial Club invited to speak. local addresses and Q&A planned. large attendance expected. Building activity includes Watts building progress and Furnish ditch land improvements with alfalfa seeding. drug store moved to Umatilla. new feed mill work planned opposite the depot.
Burlington New Jersey Abraham Leconey a Delanco shoemaker was hospitalized in Philadelphia for a tack lifting operation after persistent stomach pain. X rays showed about a hundred brass tacks embedded in his stomach a result of years of using his mouth as a tack box while working. Doctors report one stomach section contains more tacks than the sole of a boot.
Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigebes retired U S N states gunnery efficiency has risen 1200 percent since the Spanish-American War. In a National Civic Federation address he cites hits increasing from 3 1⁄2 to 33 1⁄2 percent and range from 1 1⁄2 miles to 6 miles, pleading for more ships and crews.
A Springfield recruit was rejected after an army examiner found a tattoo of a naked woman on his right forearm. An official tattoo expert later misidentified the design as a trout costume, and the man was then promptly enlisted after returning to the recruiting station.
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