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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1910
Page
3
The Census Bureau clarifies dwelling and family definitions for the 1910 population schedule to be used starting April 16. A dwelling includes any place where people regularly sleep, from a hotel to a tent, while a family can be those sharing a dwelling or an individual living alone, with respondents recorded by the enumerator on Census Day.
The head of the Industrial and Orphans' Home in Macon Georgia reports that Electric Hitters has been used for nine years. He says it improves stomach liver and kidney troubles strengthens the weak and run down and aids digestion and blood purification. The medicine is sold by Tallman & Co for 60 cents.
Payette Idaho residents anticipate a prosperous 1910 1911 period as the Central Idaho Railroad builds a new line branching from the Oregon Short Line at Owlan. The route through fertile valleys will connect with the Short Line at Payette making it a junction for two main lines and boosting freight business and potential division status. Telegraph service will be available during frost danger aiding fruit growers expectant for a strong apple crop this year.
An old advertisement claims the pills cure stomach, liver and kidney troubles at slight cost. It lists dyspepsia, indigestion, billowsness, constipation, jaundice, malaria and debility as treated. Sold by Tallman & Co.
Vale Oregon Rev Meredith a Methodist minister and Vale’s only preacher signed Elwood Clark’s petition for mayor at the coming primary. Clark has strong backing from Major L H French who helped mobilize a large crowd of nonchurchgoers to Meredith’s church weeks earlier.
The postmaster of Spokane and the Spokane council president team with Inland empire officers to organize a theatrical tale and carnival. They promise lively ways and moons to make the Pacific Northwest meet entertaining and tribal.
Sammie Thompson a Brooklyn 15 year old public school student hanged himself at home on Winthrop street near Clove road after being left back a single term. He told his mother he could not cope with failure and feared disappointing his engineer father in Flatbush. The mother and brother found him dangling from the bedpost.
Andrew Carnegie arrived in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter Margaret, denouncing trusts as the cause of inflation and high food prices. He credited Roosevelt and Taft with policies to regulate combines through a proposed court of commerce, noting retailers’ profiteering and predicting a remedy in due course. He planned to meet Roosevelt in London on May 15.
Pasadena residents flood Mrs Russell Sage with hundreds of letters seeking financial help. Major Slocum, her nephew, believes about 500 letters have arrived. only two have been read so far. Sage, not in public life, finds the ongoing pleas annoying and will stay at the Raymond cottage for about two months before returning east.
At Mare Island navy yard a board of inquiry led by Captain Underwood has concluded its investigation into the leaking boilers on the cruiser New Orleans. Findings have been sent to the navy department. The ship under Captain Wells left the yard for Honolulu recently but had to return after two days at sea due to leaky boiler tubes, highlighting tensions between construction and engineer corps.
Spokane chamber of commerce hosts a booster smoker February 26 for six hundred inland empire commercial travelers. A buffet luncheon featuring products from eastern Washington Oregon Idaho Montana and British Columbia precedes the event. The program includes talks and anecdotes with a trophy for the best road story and welcomes from Co M Frasett and Mayor N S Pratt. A W Doland will discuss creditman salesman relations.
United States Senator Tillman warns Ellensburg residents that McGranahan may seek Hine to obtain filings for timber claims. He alleges a Portland firm is aiding questionable filings nationwide and says such filings will not grant priority rights. North Yakima residents have also pursued similar filings, deemed worthless by the senator.
A vintage advertisement for Pallard’s Horehound Syrup by A. C Koeppen & Bros promises quick relief from coughing and lung discomfort. Bottles priced at 25 cents, 60 cents, and one dollar, with the claim of healing the lunge.
The young officer Hoffrichter, linked to the Austrian army fPeisen plot, endures a harsh inquisition. He sits in a cell in a critically nervous state, reflecting the severity of the proceedings.
The account alleges secret court practices aim to break inmates spirits using drugs and coercion to elicit confessions. It notes no jury or attorney for the prisoner and cites Frau Holtriechter seeking to testify for her husband but being delayed for more important witnesses.
Despite repeated warnings and social cautions, wealthy and public figures occasionally wed actresses marking notable pairings. The trend spotlights celebrity unions crossing class lines and press attention in high society circles.
Greece plans to ask J P Morgan for a 160 million drachma loan to fund railroad construction and public works and cover budget deficits to 1909. Britain Germany and Turkey resist, while France would fund on onerous terms. Revenue from railroads taxes sugar and tobacco would guarantee interest, with a separate 60 million drachma loan for redeeming banknotes and gold reserves.
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