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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1913
Page
2
A vintage advertisement for Aden Rao Embroideries promotes a wide selection of embroideries in ratines crepes voiles linen and batiste. It lists white sale prices from 1.00 to 7.50 with several lot items including narrow Swiss and nainsook embroideries for children’s dress and underwear.
The ad promotes a gown with long sleeves and square neck priced at 8 cents during January White Sale. It lists White Sale prices on table linens, napkins, lunch cloths, towels, sheets, and pillow cases with numerous discounted items and erroneous fragments.
W H Buttner, agent for the Aerial Yacht company, filed duplicate articles signaling an aerial ferry service between San Francisco and bay points. The craft, designed by Silas Christopherson, is a hydro-aeroplane with a detachable boat hull, luxuriously finished in mahogany, carrying two passengers plus pilot, and capable of water propulsion if needed.
An old newspaper ad touts a remedy to cure a cold in one day with laxative bromo quinine tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. B. W. Grove signs each box. Price 26 cents.
Head of Australian Fisheries discovers a gulf stream 100 miles wide. Commissioner Dannevig reports a warm current starting in the equatorial Pacific and flowing toward Australia and Tasmania at seven miles an hour. The stream spans about 100 miles.
A Curtis 80 horsepower engine installed in the boat is described as the power source for propulsion. The report notes the engine remains in the vessel, with emphasis on its capacity and role in performance. Further details on speed or usage are not provided in the fragment.
The boat is covered except the cockpit with a rising hood for spray protection and a self starting engine. It heats seating with exhaust heat in cold weather. Christoffer son conducts short flights with the vessel over the bay. Directors Silas Christofferson Ernest Hamner and H P Christofferson lead a company capitalized at $200,000. Wealthy patrons, including society women, pay large fees for rides with many following the new craft's example.
Idaho Consolidated Power & Utilities, backed by John D. Rockefeller and the Harriman estate, has gained control of the Oxbow from Idaho-Oregon Light & Power. Attorneys in New York and Oregon law changes are cited as the basis for the transfer, with claims that the Idaho-Oregon firm failed to maintain continuous development of the site on the Snake River.
Baker Oregon January 21 David B Littlefield 81 last surviving member of the 1861 party that sought the Blue Bucket diggings in eastern Oregon died after a short illness A Maine native who lived in Baker over 60 years he prospected with Henry Griffin and others and helped open Griffin's gulch He was known as a well traveled friendly pioneer twice married with five children surviving his second wife.
Centralia Washington reports B C Croop a prominent rancher living near Toledo blew himself up by holding a stick of dynamite to his stomach and igniting it. He had suffered a fall years earlier and authorities suspect temporary insanity as a cause.
A fashionable, unnamed young woman in Boston, believed from a prominent family, is held on forgery charges. Police found an elaborate display of colored inks and pens in her quarters, suggesting preparation for deceptive writing.
A 100 reward is offered by F. J. Cheney & Co. for Catarrh Cure proof of failure. The ad asserts the remedy treats catarrh as a constitutional disease with internal use. It claims to cure by affecting blood and mucous surfaces and promises testimonials upon request. Sold by all druggists and includes a note to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Police report a young woman about 18 years old using an outfit to run spurious checks on a large scale. She frequented exclusive shops locally and abroad and claimed, “Oh, call me Mia.” Abbie L. Moulton, that will do.
Salt Lake City Jan 21 The professors at Granite High school have launched a dress simplification crusade replacing starched collars and billed shirts with soft collars for both teachers and students. Leaders in fashion are warned that latent creation in gowns will meet scorn.
Mrs A R Haber of Crider Missouri says five years of sick headache ended after taking Chamberlain’s Tablets. She used two bottles and was cured, the medicine aiding a stomach disorder the cause of the headaches. Sold by all dealers.
In Eugene Oregon on January 21 the final wording was chosen by Oregon Washington and Stanford for the intercollegiate debate. The resolution calls for prohibiting immigration of unskilled laborers from eastern and southeastern Europe. The triangular contest is planned for early May with six contestants vying to represent the University of Oregon after a January 25 preliminary test.
A vintage advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Base antiseptic powder to ease tired swollen feet and corns bunions. It claims fast relief for sores and callouses, ideal for dancing parties and new shoes, urging readers to try it and obtain a free trial package.
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