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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1912
Page
2
One lot of odd napkins of full dinner size and heavy linen, valued at 4.50 to 5.00 per dozen, offered for 2.00 in the Great White sale. Prices listed earlier include 40¢ to 12 1.2¢ and 10¢ per piece for India linen.
Kansas City report details Stanley Love Wildman, Ogallala Sioux, journeying from Watonga Oklahoma to find Verba Pennyback, daughter of a famed renegade, only to learn she is married. He chooses to return west without revenge, dressed in black with feathered hat, hearing reporters and recalling his past loves. The piece weaves his tale with local theater news and civic changes.
Fifty residents of Pittsfield organized as the Ittefield Theater company and subscribed 50000 dollars to operate the Colonial theater. The group emphasizes culture over wealth and lists among the organizers several men who contributed 1000 dollars each.
In Huntington Oregon two local youths recently raided the Oregon Cafe and were located by officials. Part of the loot was found on them and they claim the act was a joke. They offered to return the money in exchange for no prosecution.
In Scranton Pennsylvania Frank Bartofski, a Dickerson City miner, has again been blessed by the stork. After a decade of births totaling twelve to his family, the latest surprise arrives as twins followed by a boy and girl in a notable sequence. Neighbors glimpse a string of fortunate arrivals and enduring family joy at Bartofski home.
After ten years of marriage Mr and Mrs Bartofski welcome triplets to a family that already counts twelve children, ten living. The newborns, two girls and a boy, weigh seven and a half, six and a half, and seven pounds respectively. the mother weighs about 135 pounds.
Evan M. Evans, a miner, deterred a wreck near Warrior Run by waving his miner's lamp as the New York and Buffalo express approached a logging chain obstruction. The 300 passenger train stopped within yards of the danger after Evans warned the engineer, preventing a potential derailment on the 50 mph line.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, renowned pure food expert, shifts focus to baby foods in Washington. He surveys infant meals and varieties as part of a national effort to improve digestion and nutrition amid concerns over additives and quality.
The story chronicles Dr Wiley’s engagement and marriage after sixty six years as a bachelor. Mrs Wiley leads the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Suffrage club in DC and steps back from duties as the stork hovers over the chief exponent of a pure food cult. Suffragists rally to welcome the coming child with comforting plans and gifts.
J W Crossley of Portland Oregon once mailed a bottle from Philadelphia into the Atlantic off Fire Island New York eight years ago The bottle bore a finder notice to contact Crossley A letter from Robert Magwood Mount Pleasant DC confirms recovery from Cape Remain on the South Carolina coast January 6 1912 Naval experts say Gulf Stream currents carried the bottle northward with possible swings before the coast pickup.
Connecticut Association of professional musicians declares musicians are made not born. Articles of incorporation state members will meet for rehearsals and practice to master music, an art that cannot be purchased or inherited but acquired through constant effort.
Governor Oswald West designates February 4 to 10 1912 as Good Roads Week urging statewide discussion and education on roads legislation. Pendleton’s Umatilla County Good Roads Association plans a meeting to build support after a Supreme Court ruling limits county road bonding. Public and private discourse, plus press columns, are urged to inform voters and lawmakers.
Eugene Oregon January 24 David Crocker a University of Oregon sophomore registered from Pendleton has earned a place among six debaters chosen from over thirty entrants to represent the university. He is on the team that will face the University of Utah in Eugene on February 29 as part of a three-institution debate slate including Stanford and Washington.
The Illinois Supreme Court was urged to define what constitutes a grandchild in the will dispute of Horace A. Coon et al. v John McNelly et al. Albert H. Johnson, a half-brother, appeals from Monroe County arguing the decedent E. L. Morrison left no grandchildren since his wife died before the will. The case centers on who inherits under Morrison’s will and defines grandchild in this context.
John D. Rockefeller Jr announced the end of a two year campaign to abolish "white slavery." He will shift focus to creating a bureau for criminalistic research aimed at improving and reforming how women convicted in criminal courts serve their sentences.
Miss Lillian Hall, deputy US Marshal, served papers in a $1.5 million railroad bond case in Dallas County Missouri after two male deputies failed. Posing as a book agent, she obtained service on county clerk John Maddox in Buffalo, helping Philadelphia plaintiffs led by David Yort. The 1868 bonds funded a railroad never built, and officials had doubted timely service.
Dr A Unger of Chicago told the Kansas City Theosophical Society that Christ will return to Earth within twenty years. He argued a world in need of a great religious leader will prompt Christ’s appearance and claimed he would appear with a brown body to ease humanity’s certainty.
An 1842 note recalls a banquet in New Orleans where $100 per plate was paid to Henry Clay. The advert promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills for stomach troubles and liver kidney and bowel disorders, priced at 25 cents at Koeppens.
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