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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1903
Page
6
An advertisement touts Ackers Dyspepsia Tablets as a solution to indigestion allowing safe, unrestricted eating. It promises perfect digestion with one tablet after meals, a 25 cent price, a money back guarantee, and a free sample offer from W. H. Hooker & Co. of Buffalo, NY, via F. W. Schmidt & Co. druggists.
An advertisement asserts Doan's Kidney Pills cure kidney related backache by targeting sick kidneys. It features a testimonial from Mrs. A. M. Weaver of Cripple Creek Colorado praising remedies for her child and endorsing continued use. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sale agents for the United States with a 50 cent price. Remember the name Doan's.
Orlan Clyde Cullen, counselor at law, registered U S practitioner in the Supreme Court, patent office, and foreign patents. He handles trade marks and copyrights from his office on NW Washington Street, Di.
A formal but debated resolution by Shelly urged prohibition of midway attractions at the Lewis and Clark 1905 fair. The house debated for nearly an hour before adopting the motion after votes of 18 ayes to 21 noes, with proponents arguing improved morals and opponents urging director oversight. The matter now rests with the fair commission and directors.
In Washington Feb 13 the house public lands committee favorably reported a senate bill authorizing sale of isolated tracts under 160 acres within Indian reservations opened to settlement. Tracts uncrewed for three years after surrounding lands entered shall not sell below 1.25 an acre, affecting Umatilla Colville and other reservations. Also an amendment to the sundry civil bill would pay Harry Robertson 600 for Hawaiian hearings reporting. A Cape Saunchef Alaska lighthouse house costing 23073 is ordered, with all materials to be bought in Portland.
Major Thos W Symons a Pacific Northwest engineer known for Columbia river works and Oregon Washington Idaho Montana harbor improvements is named superintendent of public buildings and grounds in the District of Columbia with colonel rank Roosevelt appointee and to assume June 4. Fifty women jailed in Paterson New Jersey by coal trust for stealing coal from sidings.
In Washington on February 18 the Senate passed a measure raising Alaska homestead size to 820 acres and allowing entered land to be either surveyed or remeasured provided entries are rectangular and not longer than one mile. Five years of residence required before patent. private surveys required for all entries. war frontage limited to 200 feet. Public lands committee supports Senate amendments. bill may go to conference before final passage and signing by the president.
In a Salem Journal style spoof a chorus of lawmakers wrestles with the senatorial question. Names and places drift through the verse as factions, cliques, and counties weigh loyalties. A separate Newark burglary report notes Grace Episcopal church in Newark, New Jersey, was rifled Tuesday of valuables worth 10000 dollars.
Chicago dispatch reports the National Federation of Millers opened in Chicago with aims to press Congress to protect milling interests in reciprocity treaties. It seeks removal of duties on Canadian wheat to shield U S mills from Liverpool competition, arguing Canada’s access lowers U S flour prices and undermines domestic growers. The group also pushes attention to Cuban treaty provisions and broader trade negotiations affecting flour.
The Pennsylvania Railroad plans doubling the track from Baltimore to Harrisburg with surveys for a second dual-use line for freight. The new route from Phoenix Station will use higher ground, easing congestion on the Baltimore division and northern central lines amid rising freight traffic.
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