Window Drapery Fabrics Sale Makes Up Attractive Homes
Hundreds of yards of bun man nets and scrims offered at deep discounts. Suitable for window and door draperies with dozens of patterns. Available in white, cream and ecru.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1914
Page
2
Hundreds of yards of bun man nets and scrims offered at deep discounts. Suitable for window and door draperies with dozens of patterns. Available in white, cream and ecru.
A compact rundown of white sale bedding items including sheets priced 75 to 1.25 dollars and pillow cases at 20 to 26 cents. Mentions largest size and heaviest weight with emphasis on quality and center seam absence.
The ad urges shoppers to prepare for spring cleaning with bed spreads sheets pillow cases towels and towels discounted during a White Sale. Buyers are encouraged to act now to secure savings before prices rise.
Ad describes patent kid with mat top or satin dress shoes priced at 6.00. Features include good material, fine workmanship, and sizes from 2.5 to 8 with width AA to E. Mentions mail orders and out of town customers sending old shoe size number.
A fragment lists textiles including linen duck hand towels and borders with color options. Various quality lines and prices appear in early 20th century style advertising such as 10¢ 12e 15¢ 16¢ 25¢ 40¢ 65¢ 75¢ and 1.00 Quality White Sale.
Large lot of shirts offered at low prices. Lot 1 Earl & Wilson regular 2.50 values with choice patterns. Lot 2 Manhattan broken lots with values up to 2.00 now 1.10. Lot 3 Vindex and other brands cost 1.50 to 2.00, your choice only.
A local advert promotes the coming season as the greatest white shirt season. It lists prices for white stiff bosom shirts and white plain soft front shirts in multiple styles and price points ranging from $1.05 to $3.00, including full dress shirts.
A newspaper ad lists items with low prices including oranges at 30 60 and 90 cents per crate? dozen. Specials feature crockery at 75 cents and near cut bowls 30 cents. Canned deviled sardines 15 or 25 cents. Stollwerck milk chocolates 5 10 and 25 cents. Nut meats Walnuts Filberts Pecans and Calabab figs priced per pound or jar. Preserved skinless figs in jars 15 35 and 1.50.
Congressman Hawley pushes a bill to establish a mining experiment station in Grants Pass Oregon under the bureau of mines with a mining engineer metallurgical chemist and assistant. He seeks a 25000 grant to establish equip and maintain the laboratory and aims to map the Dothan quadrangle with cooperation from Oregon and federal agencies during the coming season.
Backache may stem from overwork or cold or disease. Ballard's Snow Liniment offers prompt relief when rubbed thoroughly over the affected area. Sold by all dealers in 50c and 1.00 bottles.
A old fashioned Stockmen's Masquerade Ball will cap the National Stock Show in Denver this week. Under Denver Press club auspices dancing will spill from the City Auditorium along Cham pa street with music on every street corner from Fourteenth to Eighteenth. Thousands are expected to attend and dance the tango or turkey trot in the open.
The ad urges prompt treatment of fill wounds or abrasions from the Mesh in cold weather to prevent a bad sore. It recommends Ballard's Snow Liniment applied at once, stating the wound heals promptly and eliminates the need for a bandage. Available in 25c 60c and 1.00 per bottle. Sold by all dealers.
Mick, the only horse on Uncle Sam's pension list, is retired to a pasture at Fort Riley Kansas after 26 years of continuous service. Records show he is the only Army horse ever pensioned, while others are condemned and sold when no longer useful. Mick was purchased for army use in 1887.
Mick, a horse valued at 1650, served eight years as chief section horse and eight more with Battery D, Sixth Field Artillery at Fort Riley. A decorated performer with medals, he won a Roman race at St. Joseph's military tournament and is famed for brushing his teeth with a pocket rope after meals.
The New York State Agricultural Society wrapped up its two day convention in Albany and will push rural credits cooperative movements agricultural resources development and agricultural education at the upcoming legislature session.
Representative Binnett won a favorable committee report on a bill after the senate passed it. The measure would set aside 160 acres in Baker county Oregon as a reservoir and storage plant for the city of Baker.
Salem Oregon January 21. Governor West receives letters from citizens urging him to run again for governor. A petition from Adams and Umatilla County signed by G O Richardson appeals to him to continue his law enforcement campaign. The petition cites his convictions finances and fortitude and asks for a chance to nominate and elect him in 1914.
Special correspondence from Stanfield Ore on January 21 notes Mina James Perry and daughter Miss Jennie Perry visiting from Pendleton for a Masonic lecture. Celia Moore and Mrs Heist and Moore spent a day in Pendleton this week. Mr and Mrs J T McNurlin returned to Umatilla.
Social and club notices from a mid century women’s page highlight personalities, fashions, home hints, and world items of interest. Brief items include gatherings, society events, weddings, and local fashion notes featuring prominent women and organizations.
Dr Emil Enna and baritone Robert Lovell Wilson entertained Pendleton audiences with a varied Scandinavian music program at the Alta theater. Earlier they gave a talk and piano selections at a south hill home. The Hawthorne school class and neighbors hosted social entertainments with refreshments and games. A wedding in Portland and other local notices followed, including a health ad for HERBINE.
A compilation of practical tips from the Chicago Journal and journals like New Haven Journal Courier and Hartford Times. It covers keeping bread moist, washing Persian rugs with soap and cold water, refreshing wood finishes with furniture cream, using baskets for paper bag cooking, small toasters for broiling, removing cocoa stains from linen, and preparing seasoned bread crumbs and currants.
Iowa launches industrial education via a short course for painters and decorators tied to the state convention of union painters and decorators. The engineering college runs the program, drawing 150 attendees from across the state. Other trades and several states eye similar courses as the apprentice system wanes.
D P Lawson of Edison Tenn praises Dr King's New Discovery as the best cough cold and throat and lung medicine he has sold. It relieves obstinate coughs and lung troubles quickly and should be kept in every home. Available 50c and 1.00 from J E Bucklen Co. Philadelphia or St Louis.
An old advertisement touts Ballard's Horehound Syrup as a healing balm for lungs and passages after a dry hacking cough. It lists prices 25c 50c and 1.00 per bottle and notes availability from all dealers.
The Detroit Free Press describes the buttonhole festoon as a graceful finish for scalloped edging with picots. A thread is carried from one scallop to the next and back, then covered with close buttonhole stitches to form a picot and fill the festoon.
Cure claims for backache lumbago and sciatica tout a trial bottle of St Jacobs Oil to rub on the back. The ad promises rapid relief within a count of fifty and asserts the product is magical harmless and skin friendly.
A fragment quotes a familiar adage about urging timely preventive care. The line hints at health caution and procrastination, presenting a persuasive warning through a proverb-like remark.
The text emphasizes precise, even execution to achieve a clean edge. It highlights padding buttonhole scallops before sewing to ensure raised details stand out, enhancing the delicate festoon work.
In New York on January 21 Mrs Joseph A Blake wife of the noted surgeon was granted a separation decree. The decree awards her an annual allowance of $10000.
An advertisement promotes Pape's Diapepsin as a quick fix for nervous dyspepsia gas and indigestion. A fifty cent bottle promises relief within five minutes, ending sour belches, stomach heaviness, and headaches and claiming to digest meals as if the stomach were absent.
An old time mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur is promoted as restoring dark hair color. The ad claims Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy darkens evenly, removes dandruff, stops scalp itching and hair loss, and restores gloss after several applications.
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