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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1902
Page
8
An extended pitch extolling the value of classified ads in the Daily Boat Oregonian and East Oregonian. It highlights low costs from 15 cents to 60 cents, enables trading, selling, hiring, renting, and lost and found notices, and urges readers to use want ads to reach 1000 to 5000 people efficiently.
News from Tutuila describes Melivoyte returning from Hueeka Flat in Wash to work for Charles Boheman, Sam Athine recovering a horse in Prescott, and local leaders affected by a cold snap. It notes frost damage to county wheat, assorted residents ill or traveling, and a former resident, George Duggan, plans to return soon.
Fragmented account notes freezing readings around town from early morning hours with thermometers dipping to near record lows. Mentions residents and visitors in Pendleton including Rev John Warren and Miss Nora Wathkine, plus local business visits and political figures preparing for meetings in Portland and state central committee.
Advertisement notes Dr King’s New Life Pills claim to cure torpid liver jaundice biliousness fever and ague with no sting. Promotes John H Stetson hats at clearance price and Cleaver Dry Goods Co closing out sale.
Florida youths practice sea turtle riding along the southern coast. A boy steadies himself in the bow as a large green turtle is driven from shore to be captured, then wrestles with the creature as it surfaces for air. The action ends with the turtle taken aboard for market, a lively pastime that western boys envy.
Five Pendleton men, listed as J. J. Balleray Kimner P. Dodd Chas Marah BK Macomber and FH Carpenter declare they will not marry soon, instead forming a private club and living at home. They lease a furnished house on Boat Court street near Grant, plan to move in at month’s start, and will hire a Jap to phonograph for them as part of their new home life.
A Harrisburg mother claims her child is worth millions to her and cites purchasing One Minute Cough Cure to treat coughs croup and throat troubles. The ad touts an immediate safe cure by Tallman & Co and Brock & McComas. The report ends with a fictional rural town line about a hair covered eight-foot monster in Idaho.
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