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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1914
Page
7
An old advertisement touts the safety and comfort of Mother's Friend for pregnant women. It claims to ease abdominal stretch and reduce nausea, sleeplessness, and dread, promising joyful anticipation. Available at drug stores for $1.00. Bradfield Regulator Co. offers a book on motherhood from Atlanta, Georgia.
Wheat sentiment reversed after opening with May at 1-4 to 1-8 cents losses and July 1-8 cents. closing options up May 11-4 and July 1-2. May opened 91 and closed 91 1-2. July opened 87 1-4 and closed 87 3-4. Grain prices list producers’ prices for oats, barley, flour, hay, millstaffa, and clover seed.
In North Portland market this morning a load of swine sold at 5.20, a new high with a dime advance from yesterday. The cattle market showed weakness with top steer prices around 7.75, while sheep demand remains firm and prices rise.
The City of Pendleton invites sealed bids by January 14 1914 for paving Bush Street between Jackson and Raley Streets with gravel bitulithic pavement and installing curbs gutters and drainage. Bid packets require a 100 dollar certified check and specify quantities for pavement excavation embankment concrete curb vitrifed sewer pipe manholes and headers. Bids opened 7 30 PM January 14 1914. Council may reject any bid.
A wit in Chicago Record Herald notes a man declares his raise to 310 a week while a woman hesitates to promise marriage until love is certain, ultimately saying yes if pressed. The dialogue blends courtship with a financial perk, highlighting midcentury social norms.
Chicago board of education votes 13 to for discontinuing sex hygiene lectures in public schools. The lectures had run as a special course last term. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent, did not take part in the debate for or against the program pending public sentiment.
Madison Wis January 1 1913 M D Reynolds states he suffered rheumatism since 1894 from snowplow work on the railroad. After using Meritol Rheumatic Powders he discarded crutches and reports full recovery. Also promotes Meritol White Liniment for sore throat chest pains and congestion with a plaster method via flannel cloth. Tallman & Exclusive Agents.
The London Times quotes Anatole France saying he remains a journalist and owes much of his writing to journalism. He credits journalism with teaching the craft of writing, especially clarity and simplicity, and notes even great writers like Chateaubriand benefited from journalistic experience.
A rural England resident earns the championship diamond belt for optimism after an flood day tale. An elderly man on a rooftop watches floodwaters pass while a neighbor ferries over by boat. They discuss losses of fowls apples and crops with stoic humor as the river rises above his windows.
A doctor tells a patient to eat three or four eggs daily for a month to build up strength. The patient objects to the cost, and the doctor suggests a European trip as a cheaper alternative.
In Pendleton the marshal has taken up a bay gelding about 800 pounds a black mare about 900 pounds and a cream sucking colt. If owners or those entitled do not claim within ten days from this date costs and expenses will be paid and the animals removed at 2 oclock p m on January 16 1914.
The Pendleton Common Council on December 10 1913 assessed Vincent Street from Lewis Street to Court Street for improvements and notified affected owners they may pay in ten annual installments under Oregon law. Applications must be made to the City Recorder by December 25 1913.
Sealed proposals for purchase of six per cent Street Improvement Bonds of The City of Pendleton Oregon aggregating 6929.60 to be issued for Water Street Vincent Street and Lewis Street improvements. Bids due by 5 PM January 14 1914 at City Hall Recorder Thomas Fitzgerald. Certified checks of 100.00 required. city may reject any bid.
The Pendleton marshal has taken up a 13 year old sorrel horse with a star on the forehead and a white left hind foot, about 1000 pounds. If unclaimed within ten days, the animal will be sold at public auction for cash at 2 pm on January 14, 1914, at the city pound 400 West Webb Street. Proceeds go to the city.
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