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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1919
Page
8
Jan 11 Camp Lewis reports 50 percent of the 13th division may be discharged. With a November 20 strength of 1,937, 60 percent allows 1,100 to be discharged. Discharges include those leaving under the mustering order and dependents or reemployment provisions.
A vintage warning touts California Syrup of Figs as a gentle, safe alternative to oil calomel and harsh pills for children. The ad argues mothers should avoid old laxatives and use this syrup, claiming it soothes the stomach and bowels without force, with directions for all ages and a note to beware counterfeit products.
Paris reports the Second French Colonial flag saved from Germans and returned to owners. Lieutenant Roudlere, wounded August 22, 1914, left the flag with villagers of Villers-sur-Semoy. Madame Warnimont and her son hid it in their garden for four years until Allied forces reclaimed it.
Miss Margaret Nunvills, last graduate of St Stephens hospital Fort Yukon in Alaska, receives a Special service chevron from the American Red Cross. Archdeacon Stuck notes isolation and lack of physicians as she continues missionary nursing at the hospital serving a large Native Alaskan population.
Wish Jun 11 report from White Salmon notes a 150 mile river crossing to Flood River town across the Columbia. Tempers ran low with cold snaps and a skating day at White Salmon. A hockey match enlivened local leisure as river ice and crossing hazards hinder travel to Hood River and Portland.
Washington reports outline A. Mitchell Palmer’s plan to liquidate $500,000,000 in German owned property seized since the war. He would convert it to cash to pay American citizens’ claims against Germany, potentially surpassing total losses from submarine warfare and German property claims. The plan awaits a new law and could be presented at the peace conference for allied adoption.
PARIS Jan 11 The fourth son of William Hohenzollern the former Prince August William has taken a position with a German automobile firm Berlin dispatch reports Receivership forecast SPOKANE Jan 12 A rumor in Spokane says the Spokane Inland Empire Railway may seek a receiver The Spokane Traction Company operates trolley lines from Spokane to Coeur d Alene Idaho Spokane to Pullman and Moscow and runs street cars in Spokane
District headquarters in Helena announced junior units of the reserve officers training corps will be established in Montana Washington Oregon and Idaho. Units may be at public private and technical schools with at least 100 students aged over 14.
The house of Dinen Turner at 104 Grange Street was damaged by fire on January 6. By January 7 the loss had been adjusted and Turner received the full draft covering the incident.
London officials say a gas restriction on motorists will remain until Easter. Some reduction in petrol prices expected in January. Paraffin promised to be removed from restrictions later in the year.
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