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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1909
Page
5
Locals note Pastime pictures and prizes at the Pastime theatre with new lively shows. Also listed are sales, rentals, and notices including hay for sale, grain inquiries, delivery horses, and local business ads. A stray cow and a garden land offer appear among miscellaneous notices.
Seattle February progress on the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition shows most principal structures finished including Agriculture and Manufactures palaces the auditorium and the Fine Arts Palace ready for exhibits. Forestry building nearing completion with large logs in place while four government buildings for the Philippines advance rapidly along with others under construction.
United Wireless Telegraph's W A Seale announces gilt edged stock at $25 a share. After Washington's bill requiring wireless on passenger ships over 1000 tons, stock is expected to rise rapidly. Seek details now for potential immediate gains.
Terrible itching tetter and salt rheum sufferers find relief with Chamberlain's Salve. The remedy reportedly calms itching instantly and has cured many cases. For sale by all good dealers.
A stream of visitors from Hermiston Weston Umatilla Echo Vansycle Athena and other towns filled Pendleton today. Notables include J B Oxburn Volmar Idaho and H W Bruce Walla Walla. J W Stowell from Echo. D Peterson Milton on legal business. M M Wyrick improving after Hot Lake visit. Dave Hill heading to Helix for weeks on the farm. Moses Taylor Athena farmer and J T Lieuallen Adan farmer among those recorded. Special Supervisor Davis to Caldwell. Roy Alexander returns from Portland. Edith Piersal of Peoples Warehouse in distress. Dan P Smythe in Salem for oyster bounty bill support.
Chicago February 20 The state ment by attorney P H O Donnell says a prominent Chicago woman is involved in the attack on Ella Gingles a 12 year old found bound and gagged in the Wellington hotel The girl plans to file a warrant when she recovers sufficiently
Los Angeles today reports Battling Nelson the lightweight champion is missing with no trace found since a February 15 letter from Narbissa New Mexico asking about guarantees for a fight with Freddie Welsh. Baron Long, the matchmaker, was the last to hear from him and Willis Britt, Nelson's manager, says he does not know where Rattler is.
Pendleton Drug Co promotes a remedy of Foley Honey and Tar for hoarse coughs and nasal congestion. The ad claims quick relief, lung soothing action, and expulsion of the cold from the system overnight.
Salem Ore Feb 20 Governor Chamberlain vetoed senate bill 75 raising the salary of Linn County district superintendent. Miller of Linn Lane carried the measure for passage over the veto but sufficient supporters were not present and the bill was laid over.
In Mu France on February 20 King Alfonso did not join Wilbur Wright in an aerial attempt. Only a pledge to his mother and the Spanish court kept him grounded. Wright later flew with Mr Lambert, Wright's student, for a 14 minute flight.
Antwerp reports a Congo river steamer under Captain Segestrom was swept over Stanley Falls. Twenty crew members drowned and Segestrom killed himself as the craft became uncontrollable. The rudder failed and disaster followed.
Cork Feb 19 William O'Brien addressing the electora said hundreds of pounds from the party fund were spent to hire Belfast rowdies at 10 shillings a head armed with bludgeons to beat down opposition at the United Irish League convention in Dublin on February 9 He challenged John Redmond to sue for libel to prove the claim.
Guilty of manslaughter with mercy recommendation for John Bozevich in the 1908 shooting of Kent Marshal Harry Miller. Bozevich, unlike his two Servians companions, was unarmed that night after an Orlin holdup. One companion awaits death, the other life. Bozevich likely faces five years in the penitentiary.
In Salem on February 20 the Oregon Senate trimmed the general salary appropriation bill, removing items totaling 21 409 and adding 600 for convict band instruments. Major reductions hit the supreme court salaries from 70 000 to 60 000 and the state treasurer’s office from 17 000 to 15 000, with other cuts to the domestic animal commission and pilotage program.
Pendleton Drug Co promotes Foley s Orino Laxative as a cure for constipation and liver trouble. They claim it makes bowels healthy and regular and that it does not gripe or nauseate unlike pills and tablets.
A local lumber yard on Alta Street opposite the courthouse advertises cheap lumber and invites the public to come see the available stock for any project.
The Peoples Warehouse will be closed Monday afternoon February 22 to observe Washington's Birthday, a legal holiday.
A brief quip notes that a youthful person tends to pick up spelling skills early, implying rapid language learning in youth.
A 10-year-old Rio county boy named William Jones received a full lower lip replacement at the University of Virginia Hospital after a gun accident. Dr. H Watts orchestrated the transplant, moving skin from the abdominal wall to the forearm, then to the face, with the graft maturing over about five weeks.
C R Kluger of 1060 Virginia Ave Indianapolis reports kidney trouble left him weak but four bottles of Foley's Kidney Remedy cleared his complexion cured his backache and irregularities and allowed him to attend to business again after other doctors remedies failed.
Ingrams grocery will be closed all day Monday February 22 in observance of Washington's Birthday legal holiday.
A brief East Oregonian notice references a typographical symbol in a headline with t's value set to zero. No further context is provided to determine the event or outcome.
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