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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1917
Page
5
Amusements column surveys Pendleton entertainment options with notes from press agents. Preview highlights current attractions and upcoming attractions, signaling local entertainment rhythm and prospects for audiences.
The deluxe edition of the Vitagraph feature My Difficial Wife presents a lavish wedding with Sunsh ine Mary Anderson as the bride and Arthur Coxine as the groom. The set features palm decor and a white blossom bell above the altar. The ceremony and reception at the Pastime theater Sunday Monday are staged with careful detail and life like costuming, creating a vivid, romantic impression.
In Warrington January 4 the Weather Bureau announced new terms to replace sleet and to describe freezing rain accurately. Small globules of rain frozen before impact are now called a glaze when coating surfaces, and an ice storm when severe with wind. The bureau seeks precise language, similar to replacing cyclone with tornado for violent storms.
An Amperican Hoy receives a bravery honor from Phasce for notable courage in a perilous event. The ceremony highlighted quick action and resolve, with officials commending the individual's restraint and decisive conduct under pressure.
Norman Lee, son of Albert Lea and editor of Vanity Fair, joined the American ambulance corps. He drove a wounded driver through a German shelled road and earned the medal militaire. Before the war he was a student at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Five of six independents emerge as potential kingmakers after March, shaping policy toward the Democratic administration. Randall of Los Angeles backs prohibition, Copley of Knuke leans progressive, with Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota and W. P. Martin of Louisiana also independents. Meyer Landon of New York is a socialist. Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts becomes an independent.
New York on January 4 reports Christine Mateki of Brooklyn located her mother Mrs Woerner Thes Mee in New Strunewiek New Vorverdas after 19 years apart. Mrs Mee, left with four children when her husband died, faced placing a child in an institution. Christine supported the family and kept contact. A Christmas advertisement in a New Brunswick paper drew Detective George Dunn to trace Woerner, ending the long separation.
A garbled OCR passage mentions a girl turning down a suitor from Waukewan and a man joining the United States Marine Corps. It includes stray phrases about famine, a surgeon, red hair, and arches, with no coherent event or clear date or place to anchor a factual summary.
Waterbury Connecticut reports a golden eagle captured by hunters after terrorizing farms in Prospect. The bird, eight feet high in the tree and weighing about 25 pounds, fought fiercely with Edward Mulvaney Edward Bergin and Edward McGinn. It injured several people as it struggled in a crate and cage.
Reports from Tatideu New York describe a German raider sighting in the Atlantic. Navigation lines and unidentified vessel movements are noted as the liner changes course and lights go out to evade pursuit. Passengers and crew respond as the ship alters speed and route.
A state department scandal centers on questionable stock deals linked to government actions. Investigators probe potential conflicts of interest and improper influence, with officials denying wrongdoing as records are reviewed.
In a French chateau behind the trenches, Firet Lieutenant Vernon Maustre of the British Flying Corps is reported to have found a plane and shares daily dancing lemons with crew members. Second Lieut. Paulkener of the Royal Aero Club speaks to a reporter about limited work hours and autonomy, praising Vernon Castle as a museuming gunner and brave.
Representative William R Wood of Indians Republican introduces a House resolution to appoint a committee by the Speaker to investigate mock market speculation tied to statements by Secretary Lansing about President Wilsons stance to European belligerents The measure seeks to determine if any high administration official or relative profited from market fluctuations prompted by the secretarys remarks.
A jagged OCR note describes price controls and fuel shortages. It mentions John MacVicar seizing coal loads for the poor, a cold spell with temperatures around 14 degrees, a court-imposed stop, and subsequent hiding as the tale hints at further actions amid public concerns.
A jury in Baltimora found John Hoye Hammond liable for 298700 to Willard Doremus and related parties after alleged failure to recognize stock transfers and patent rights. The case involved General Cotton Securities Company and a patent attorney. An appeal is planned.
Fragmentary OCR notes report a dispute over sale of foreign rights for an invention by Doremuer now deceased. A separate Los Angeles item mentions a self-initiated search for a man accused of setting fire to a Hollywood home, with Jennings described as an ex-convict and possible former robber.
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