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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1914
Page
5
A razor with strong advertising and fixed pricing saw price cuts reduce sales while maintaining or increasing demand for price-maintaining stores. The article notes public perception and the Supreme Court decision influence, urging manufacturers to consider advertising and pricing strategies.
Local advertising rates and miscellaneous notices from the Oregon market and nearby businesses. Items include sales, rent, wanted ads, pickups, property for sale or exchange, and equipment listings from Estes Barber Shop to Graham's furniture sale. Includes furniture, coal, rags, insurances, and rental offerings with contact pointers.
Advert appears for furnished housekeeping rooms at the Umatilla Hotel located at 639 Cottonwood street. The note ends with a suggestive line about preferring a sweetheart over a wife, reflecting casual classified ad humor.
Local notes list numerous visitors and residents in Pendleton from Helix Nolin Pilot Rock Echo and Hermiston. Names include R C Wilkinson F G Thomas Mrs M L Morrison Roy B Grant Mrs James Hill Ben Eastridge Will Shannon A A Lowell and Mar garet, along with Ed Ward Orville Bott Archie Rugg and others on city business and travel. District officials and a TVP&T official also visit.
Former President Taft denounced impractical reforms and demagogues who push class consciousness in education. He warned democracy in schooling harms youth, citing school strikes over transfers and media influence, saying in his day such children would have been spanked.
Butter Creek farmer P Bowman told the city council he cannot obtain connections for his independent line into Pendleton via Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. He asked for a city franchise to run one line into Pendleton, saying he already serves Echo Hermiston Stanfield and Heppner. The matter was referred to the Street committee for discussion with him.
In San Francisco on January 22 the chamber of commerce condemned a proposed government move to force Southern Pacific to sell Central Pacific stock as a commercial injustice to California. The resolution, passed at the annual meeting, opposes the government action and declares it harmful to state residents.
In Bingham Utah on January 22 search crews recovered the bodies of three men who had entered the Boston mine to rescue others. Two more men remain missing and presumed dead from poisonous fumes. Deputy Sheriff Sorenson led a helmet crew pursuing Lopez in the Utah Apex mine.
The resolution states the proposed action is not in the public interest. It claims Southern Pacific and Central Pacific ownership are not a restraint, noting the two roads were built together by the same management as a unified system. Separation would deprive Southern Pacific of through lines, connections, terminals, and main lines essential to regional service.
Cambridge Jan 21 Harvard undergraduates run a correspondence bureau to write letters to fathers. For $1 a son can ask dad to fix blighted love affairs or quell home disputes and, with another dollar, defend his choice of marrying a chorus girl.
T R Kelly secretary and Arthur Bird treasurer of the Pacific Mutual Bond and Loan Co were indicted by the federal grand jury for fraudulent use of the mails. They were arrested when inspectors raided the office and charged with a scheme to collect examination fees from clients seeking farm mortgage loans that never existed. Both men remain jailed in default on $4000 bonds each.
L. R. Stinson grand keeper of records and seal of the Knights of Pythias of Oregon and his mother passed through Hood River en route to Washington D C for the lodges golden jubilee celebration. A local delegation greeted him at the station and presented two boxes of Hood River apples.
MOBILE Alabama January 22 Six months imprisonment and two thousand dollar penalties were imposed in the U S district court on Harold Shir ley and C W Operkirch shipping masters convicted the prior Friday of shanghaiing uneasy lies the head that wears a frown
Thursday evening January 22 at Moose Hall General Organizer Saw yer will attend by order Guardian Neighbor Margaret Cronin.
A customer praises lasting satisfaction and permanent loyalty in securing an insurance policy. The message argues the policy should be resistant to criticism and assures no need to apologize for the policy. The ad mentions Farmers Union Grain Agency Ady and stresses reliability.
We express gratitude to the friend and neighbors who aided us during the illness and death of our beloved husband and father and for the beautiful flowers sent.
Reward for information leading to the recovery of a welsha buckskin mare about 1450 pounds with LILN on the left shoulder wire scar on the right front foot scar on the left hind leg. Also notes lodge meeting cancellation and a gathering at Eagle Woodman hall with dancing hosted by THOS. FITZ GERALD.
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