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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1902
Page
6
A widow, Widow Jason, runs a farm after her husband’s death and clashes with a neighboring widower Chisholm over hogs escaping into fields. After a series of legal threats, misfortunes, and local feuds, she agrees to marry Chisholm on New Year’s.
In India a scheme uses a flexible stick with a bone needle baited by corn to lure ducks. A duck swallows the needle, becoming captive when attempting flight. Old Cape Cod fishermen similarly used cod liver baited lines to catch murres and gulls, pulling them in for processing.
In earlier times a peacock crowned the Christmas table as a spectacular centerpiece. The skin was removed carefully with feathers intact, the bird dressed and stuffed, roasted, and sewn into its skin while retaining the plumage. The beak gilded, it was served amid trumpet blares and festive applause.
Lace enhances wardrobes with jackets, boleros, and wraps for jackets and gowns. Designers showcase lace jackets in satin and chiffon for versatile wear, plus fur-edged pieces and guipure trims. The illustrated pink crepe de chine gown features a lace jacket, fichu, and wide lace belt with a belt slit.
A stylish guide describes black gowns edged with net or chiffon and paired with white satin for evening wear or guimpes for day use. It highlights crepe de chine gowns with velvet and jet, French designs with box plaits, and new undergarment slips with deep flounces and back fullness.
Autograph letter from James Fenimore Cooper to his publishers, dated 1851, argues America favors imaginative works, dismisses European prejudice about American authors, and claims he could profit from nautical tales in England. He contrasts Europe as romance with America as fact, and notes a high price for a nautical story celebrating British skill.
A passage contrasts German student life with American habits noting pervasive beer drinking at social and university events. It recounts Breslau’s famed “poor sinner’s bell” cast in 1886, linked to a fatal accident during its maker’s furnace, later rung at the execution to honor the contrite craftsman.
The excerpt links rulers from James I to Catherine de Medici and Cromwell to superstition. It cites James I’s date coincidences with family events, notes Louis weaknesses, and imagines Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Peter the Great, Marlborough, Henry of Navarre, and Cromwell as superstitious. The tone is sharp, blending satire with historical blurbs.
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