Footwear Sale Promises Unmissable Low Price
A local advert promotes a footwear sale offering deeply discounted prices on shoes. Shop details and timing are unclear in the fragment, but the offer emphasizes affordability and a limited chance to buy.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1902
Page
8
A local advert promotes a footwear sale offering deeply discounted prices on shoes. Shop details and timing are unclear in the fragment, but the offer emphasizes affordability and a limited chance to buy.
Dindinger Wilson & Co. markets its services as successor to Cleaver Bros. The ad provides a phone listing as Black 91 and notes the firm’s continued business presence in the local trade.
The notice blasts high express rates on small packages from Portland to interior points and on all packages from Portland and San Francisco to Pendleton. It cites steep charges per pound and calls for legislative action to curb abuses, urging Portland merchants to pressure express firms to reduce costs and promising a reform-minded candidate in June's election to champion fair service charges.
The report by J B Leiberg on the Cascade Range and Ashland Forest Reserves, part of the US Geological Survey, notes nearly 8 000 square miles examined with vast timber loss from fires. It details forest makeup west and east of the Cascades, fire damage, and the reserve aims to protect Ashland Creek water supply. Also reports local arrivals and visits in Pendleton and surrounding areas.
James Hill visited his parents in Helix on Sunday. J. W. Rogers of Wasco is registered at Hotel Pendleton. J. L. Smith and wife of Baker City are visiting friends in town. Zoeth Houser is registered at the Golden Rule hotel from Portland. Senator George W. Proebstel visits Pendleton from Weston. J. W. Hibbs suffers intense pain from a felon on the finger of the left hand. J. W. Smith and wife of Athena were transacting business with Pendleton merchants Saturday. Mrs. Eugene Tausick is guest of Mrs. M. F. Kelley, at the Golden Rule hotel, home in Walla Walla. C. L. Whitney, Delos H. Coffin and J. A. Dunham, prominent Walla Walla citizens, were in Pendleton yesterday.
Coroner Dr. W G Cole and Sheriff Blakley investigated a suspicious infant death near Milton upon neighbor complaints. They exonerated Alfred Requa and his wife, finding no evidence of violence as the child was quietly buried. Requa explained poverty and the decision to delay disclosure.
Chief Engineer Emil Prillwitz of the North German Lloyd steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm demonstrates a new arrangement. A small wheel near the pilot house triggers hydraulic closure of twenty air tight bulkhead doors, sealing sixteen compartments. A dial shows closed doors and locations, enabling rapid isolation to keep the ship afloat.
A coatless man pairs with a hatless girl in a dustless road carriage as they whirl toward union. The coinless couple share a bare meal of cod and beans, while the man smokes no tobacco and mocks attempts by papa to coax her home via wireless telegraph.
The United States has about 200000 miles of railway in operation, over two fifths of world mileage. Germany is second with 32000 miles, followed by Russia 30000 and France India Austria-Hungary British Isles and Canada. About one third of mileage is government owned and French railways will revert to government control mid century.
A statement cites sixteen train robberies last year and thirty nine in 1900. Over twelve years, 306 trains were held up, 95 people were killed, and 1065 wounded by gunfire. In the past two years five were killed, two wounded, and eleven ten died and casement.
C L Whitney a Walla Walla nurseryman and president of the recent good roads convention spoke of better highways for Umatilla and Washington. He cited March 4 Dayton convention and a possible state meeting with a program for county and road district aid to be sent to the legislature. Accompanied by Chairman Cofin both discussed joint road repairs between Walla Walla and Umatilla counties with local officials.
A clipping notes the queen of England maintains a large staff whose salaries total about 660000 dollars a year. It lists several functionaries and their costs, including a wax fitter among others, illustrating the scale of royal household expenses.
The fragment outlines annual pay for royal staff including a first and second lamplighter at $500 each year a chief butler at $2,600 a year a chef at $3,500 a year and four master cooks at $1,000 a year plus clerks and confectioners with wages around $1,500 to $1,200 for laundry workers. Total royal household wages sum to $710,000 a year with tradespeople supplying food bills averaging $860,000 annually.
The article profiles Col Judson Wood a horticulturalist and agricultural scientist aiming to establish an experimental station on his Franklin county ranch. It notes a nursery of odd items and crops a plan to breed a new oyster variety by crossing Cove oysters with sand toads, plus other quirky schemes including strawberries and prunes.
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