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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1908
Page
6
Mrs Rose Floes of Chicago reports her son recovered from a lengthy rash after using Cuticura Ointment and Pills, noting dramatic improvement within two weeks and full cure for her daughter with similar treatment. She cites other grateful patients and references Cuticura advertisements from 1906 1907.
William Benney arrives from Chicago to join his wife, a Normal music teacher, as plans to relocate unfold. Jack Warren couple moves to Lind, Washington for a new home. A miniature cyclone at Spring Hollow damages Frank Martin’s barn and machinery, house spared. total damage about 250 dollars. D. B. Jarman to open a general store soon with goods arriving. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phipps a son at Dry Creek. Normal basketball team prepares for Washington state and other games. Cold spell expected in February. grain sown in fall stands well. Advertising note promotes Kodol for Dyspepsia.
Freewater reports the Peacock mills at Milton sent two carloads of flour to Seattle and Tacoma via the Walla Walla Traction line after securing a loading track. A carload of winter apples was sent to Crawford Nebraska. Postoffice Inspector Troensegaard visited, seeking a Japanese sender and inspecting the local post office. New automatic switches are being installed at the Freewater substation. Local interest includes W. O. Kelly buying the O R and N billiard hall and real estate talks by Henry Compley of Grangeville seeking fruit land investments.
A man claiming to be the brother of actress Maxine Elliot was arrested in Portland on Saturday, charged with vagrancy after being tagged as a suspicious character by officers.
An article asserts the back as the mainspring of a woman's body with pain signaling distress and urges prompt attention. It links nervous symptoms, headaches, loins pain, and low abdominal weight to a need for restoration of health through a single remedy.
A series of revival meetings led by Rev. Israel Putnam of Athena attracts large crowds at the Adams M. E. Church each evening. The town reports some sickness but none serious, with grip noted as the main ailment.
A reader from Rockland Maine describes relief from long lasting backaches and side pain after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Another East Earl Pennsylvania user reports severe backaches and fatigue relieved by the remedy. The advertisement touts the product as a thirty year standard cure for female ills including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities erotiic pains backache and nervous prostration.
A J Splawn of North Yakima visiting The Dalles Chronicle says he spent three years tracing where the Indians of the earliest Northwest acquired their first horses. He is compiling data for a forthcoming book, focusing on the Yakima war of 1856 and the Indians' perspective, noting the reticence of informants. The work aims to be a valuable historical resource for future generations and library shelves.
A fragmented OCR listing names and locations includes Hotel St George, Monahan, G. & Chicago Cope land, C. and wife Hermiston, Rose boom F. H., Detroit Maxwell W. M. Hendel J. A., Portland Johnson FR. R., Shelton J. F., Echo Meeks A. L., Marke W. D., Spokane Lee Sam, Allison J. A., Lareey J. F., Dunn Wm., Van Datta P., Richardson & L., Rathburn & L., Portland Collison 5. L., elty Ennis F. G., Walla Walla Day W. M., Spokane Harrison Chas. La Grande Kellogs L. B., Range 8. & Moore J. C., Berkley C. A., Portland.
An advertisement touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure for colds and pneumonia prevention, claiming it stops coughing and expels the cold while acting as a mild laxative. It warns to refuse imitations and promotes Pendleton Drug Co. as the source in a period ad style.
The piece surveys new gubernatorial selections in Mississippi and New Jersey, a push to nominate William L. Dongins for vice president, and Oregon delegates for the Denver convention. It notes direct-senator election support in Oklahoma, a large Republican Chicago convention vote, and near-term senatorial races in Mississippi Virginia Kansas New Hampshire Texas Rhode Island. It also covers upcoming speeches by William J. Bryan in the South and a Portland hardware dealers convention with a Pacific Federation meeting set for Thursday.
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