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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1911
Page
2
An old time storefront advertises linen tailored waists and lingerie waists with white sale prices. It highlights free Mexican stenciling demonstrations led by Mrs. Rogers of Chicago and promotes a range of shirts and linens including Countess Nainsook and Sea Island fabrics.
A. A. Quarnberg reports identifying the oldest apple tree on the Pacific coast near Vancouver Barracks Washington. Colonel Meiunnegle orders a surrounding fence and a tablet with the tree’s history to be erected. The tree is estimated at 86 years old, planted by Hudson Bay Company officers from London seeds carried in pockets.
Dallas News suggests a quick start for a new store by launching a closing-out sale to attract customers. The exchange frames advertising as necessary, with the recommendation to begin immediately to generate attention and foot traffic.
Olympia reports Gustav Vollmer links Curt Pless a Bellingham giant of 7 feet 4 who vanished in 1908 to Carl Pritchaun a German grower who built towns and later disappeared. Pless, prominent in Bellingham, left debts, wife to teach languages, and no trace after Mount Vernon and Everett.
The advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as uniquely effective for female troubles. It cites testimonials from women including Mrs. John Wentland of Coloma Wisconsin and claims the product restores health, prevents surgery, and is made only from roots and herbs.
An old advertisement touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a meritorious cure for coughs resulting from cold in the head throat chest or lungs. It notes the product is sold by all merchants and emphasizes its effectiveness for troublesome and dangerous complications.
An advert claims that Pape's Cold Compound ends grippe misery after two hourly doses, with three doses total. It touts three years of research and a $50,000 cost, states no quinine is included and asserts the 25-cent package cures a cold promptly with no after-effects.
Consul Albert Halstead from Birmingham forwards a press description of a chemist’s invention that converts gasoline into a stiff white jelly by adding steatite and alcohol. A recent high powered car used the jelly on long England trips, claiming 86 percent economy. The press notice is on file at the Bureau of Manufactures.
The report states the sim to fund Japanese naval expansion is definitively set at 40 million gold, to be distributed over five years.
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