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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1912
Page
2
A prize Boston bulldog named Mugging, owned by R P Taylor, looted Atlantic City National Bank of $1000. The dog entered the bank cage, grabbed ten hundred dollar bills, and fled with it as a crowd chased. Police recovered the money after about an hour. the dog and handler eluded capture briefly.
In Judge William Dever's court a 25 year old girl testified as the complaining witness against Pratik Alexander, 25, who was charged with an attempted attack. The witness gave her name as Harbertunnianibertunnin Pillow, prompting the judge to ask for the correct spelling. The case was continued indefinitely.
The court questions a girl about her name as she spells it aloud Harbertunni. The judge notes the length of the name while the hearing on the charges continues. The exchange shows the court's perplexity over how to properly address her.
The post office department hawk, once fed on pigeons atop the clock tower, has died after a year’s sentence to be shot. He now rests in Postmaster-General Hitchcock's private office following his humane demise two weeks ago.
Mark Ames of Newton Falls Ohio and Mrs Jeanette Hays of Newark were married at the bride’s sister’s residence. Ames 83, Hays 77. Ames previously a Warren businessman and served four terms in the Ohio legislature.
A patient describes instant relief from constant itch using D D D Prescription for Eczema. The ad claims the product neutralizes the itch and dries skin, offering a full size bottle with a money back guarantee if it does not stop the itch immediately. It urges readers to buy from local stores and avoid substitutes.
After forty years apart the groom and bride married following a letter from Mrs Hayes’ heir. Mrs Ames had died a year earlier leaving him alone while Hays died eight years ago. Mrs Hayes wrote to Ames and he replied that if she were there they would marry at once. The couple left for Cleveland and then their Newton Falls home.
John F. Meehan walked into a Stockton police station and admitted embezzling $1,000 in Laredo twenty-one years ago while employed at a bank. He said twenty-one years of mental agony drove him to surrender as authorities were alerted.
Omaha report says New York lawyer Samuel Untermyer travels without a nightshirt while his luggage follows on a later train. The miss is blamed on a joke by fellow lawyers from a Lincoln, Nebraska trial.
An extraordinary device a vacuum cleaner with artificial respiration equipment was used at a Chicago hospital to prolong a young woman's life for twenty nine hours. When resuscitation began the patient was described as incompletely head and breathing, heart action, and pulse approached normal.
Two physicians used the machine during surgery while two others conducted the operation. After the procedure the machine was stopped briefly and the patient died.
Battle Creek Mich The Rev Co P Antisdes of Chicago a missionary is in sariltarium here after a journey on a cot of 16000 miles from the interior of China. He is afflicted with neurasthenia and not once during the entire journey was he able to sit up. Four hundred miles of the trip was through mountains, the port being carried by Chinese coolies. Twenty two relays were wear.
Cambridge Mississippi Jaleint Gack wit Harvard's Indian prince and heir apparent to the throne of Baroda in India graduates with an A B in three years and a half instead of four. The Gaekwar studied religious subjects, has many student friends, and his father is noted for democratic and progressive ideas.
Workmen finding a dog in a snowbank during a bitter cold snap were surprised to discover it had frozen stiff and resembled a living statue. It is unclear whether the latest cold wave or a prior freeze caused the dog's death.
Maud Dennis faced a burglar at her dresser and chose to act. She leaped, grabbed the intruder in a strangle hold, and choked him unconscious, ending the threat.
Pendleton sends a delegation of twenty-five boys to the Men and Religion Forward Movement convention in Walla Walla next week. Funds collected from citizens cover travel and costs. The event, two days for men and two for boys, features notable speakers and aims to organize local church leaders to present Christ’s claims.
Guthrie Oklahoma editor B Bdear of the Oklahoma City Times may be commissioned by Sheriff Bart Murphy to spring a trap if a Crescent township suspect is to hang for the murder of Thebert L Burke near Crescent last July. Governor Lee Cruce has postponed the hanging until March 1.
An advertisement extols Cascarets as a fast remedy for constipation indegestion biliousness and related distress. It claims quick relief from headaches dizziness and nervousness and promotes a 10 cent box as ongoing health. It urges care for both adults and children and notes all druggists carry the product.
Sheriff Murphy states Brown may be unfit mentally and should face life imprisonment. He adds he would deputize Mr. Holgar to carry out a hanging if necessary, signaling extreme, legally risky language about vigilante action.
A terse aphorism argues the sole tests of a woman's character are to end the engagement or proceed to marriage, reflecting traditional attitudes toward courtship and propriety.
An ad promotes Baalmayr's Glue-Tablets as a treatment for gas in the stomach caused by nervous dyspepsia. It claims the remedy acts on stomach nerves to quiet irritable gas and promises permanent relief, urging readers to purchase or order from dishoemann Pharmacy in San Francisco.
A Maryville man from Missouri testifies PARISIAN SAGE improved his facial hair after about a year of use. He reports thicker growth and longer beard, claims other skeptics are convinced by his experience. Statement given to Dr DD Koch on April 29, 1911. Large bottle 60 cents at Tillman Co druggists.
The Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Co advertises fixed westbound fare rates from Chicago and major hubs to St. Paul Omaha Kansas City and other points with prepaid option. It notes automatic block signaling and urges readers to request home building materials mailed to any address via the General Passenger Agent WM McMurray in Portland Oregon.
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