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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1914
Page
2
The Peoples Warehouse promotes T. P. W. trading stamps offering a direct saving of five percent on all spending. The program positions the store as a cooperative venture sharing profits with customers and providing premium values through the stamps.
Chico Calif Jan 7 John Wai Lin drowned in high water near Hamilton City while driving through surface water his mules bolted capsizing his wagon burying him under rubble a committee met to consider wages and raised 56000 to meet the situation Ex Mayor James D Phelan led the list with 500 donation others including Fred Duncan and three Greeks were injured several cars derailed damaged
San Francisco January 7 The citizens' committee formed to plan relief for the city's unemployed.
In Hood River Oregon January 7 a work train crashed into a caboose injuring British soldier H. A. Harris who sustained serious injuries. The incident occurred in Hood River yards as the two by brothers' operation reported.
A Montreal Grind Theatre Faust performance saw a stage manager replace Margaret’s spinning wheel with a sewing machine by Messrs X between acts. The machine, shown with maker’s name in lights, drew praise as Margaret delivered lines, noting it costs only 60. The innovation drew mixed reaction per Intransigeant.
Competitive exams to choose a principal and alternates for U S Naval Academy admission will be held at Pendleton high school and a separate session at Klamath Falls Central School. Eligible candidates must be Oregon Second District residents aged sixteen to twenty, with tests in English Grammar Geography U S History Arithmetic Algebra and Geometry.
Harry Huff, game protector, ventured into the woods near Sayville and found a dead pig shot multiple times. He hypothesized the animal appeared as a deer to an intoxicated poacher, then fled to open fields for safety.
In Los Angeles on January 6, two year old Erwin Monger died within an hour after his parents gave him a half pint of whiskey to soothe him. Dr. Joseph Jacobs attributed acute alcoholic poisoning to the death and condemned the practice as dangerous and abhorrent.
Cleveland councilman Bert Wagner, an undertaker, pushes an ordinance to require larger doors in apartment houses. He cites coffin clearance as a problem in small units. Ballard’s Horehound Syrup ad follows, touting lung healing properties and prices.
Five people were killed and two injured when a Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis freight train struck a streetcar in Memphis Tennessee on January 7.
A women’s page highlights social and club notes across fashion home hints and personal notices. It surveys varied interests, gatherings, and community items of interest to readers.
A list of new fashion items and design ideas features a silk covered hairpin that looks enamel like, seven brown shades, and 5 cents a dozen, plus coppery collars cuffs with Cupid heads, fashionable purses, laces, and gowns. The Newark fire tragedy reports at least five perished and one fatally injured in the Kearns hotel blaze with ongoing search.
Disheartened by unemployment and looming expenses Miss Marle Fenwick of Hood River faced with entertaining her sweetheart, Harold A. Tathrop aged 21 a watchman and jeweler traded his watch for a cheap gun and killed himself at the northwest corner of East Second and East Salmon streets on a vacant railroad tract. The body was found by L Ss Mullen and G FE Winzgenried as they headed to work.
Jan 7. Oregon City reports Attorney General Crawford agrees with County Treasurer Tufts that section 3682 of the 1913 tax law is ambiguous. The AG says if half the estate tax is paid by April 1 and the rest by September 1, a penalty does not begin until after September 1, clarifying intentions of the statute.
Mrs W R Ellis hosts Current Literature Club at Lewis Street home on January fourteen. Guests Mrs Ben Burroughs and Mrs Roy Alexander visit Seaview cottage, then stay a fortnight. Burroughs to join wife for weeks with Mrs Nellie Willian on Willamette Boulevard. Visitors from Pendleton include Mr Burroughs after Christmas with Hermiston couple. Also noted: Mrs L P Elliott to Portland, North Side Bridge club at Laura Nash Setelle’s. prize to Mrs Frank Frazier. Mrs Kenneth McRae hosts Busy Dee Club on Garfield Street next Tuesday. Mr and Mrs L Sharps visit Pendleton. Mrs Leon Cohen to Gearhart Park for winter seas. Edith Johnson travels to Portland for ten days. Also a health advert for Ballard's Snow Liniment.
London reports the British Foreign Office dismissed as false a circulating story that Sir Lionel Carden, minister to Mexico, would be moved from his post. The Foreign Office stated there is no truth to the claim. The rest of the text promotes a medicinal liver tonic and contains unrelated advertisement content.
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