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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1906
Page
8
An advertisement recalls a polite salesman with a winsome smile urging a purchase of Mother's Pride Coffee. It claims the coffee is as good as it gets and promotes a 25 cent price point, inviting readers to resist misleading tactics.
A quirky ad style passage touts The 400 Wend coffee with claims of strength and aroma. It markets 40 loon per pound and contrasts with inferior blends. The prose riffs on entering a “class that drinks” the coffee, implying a premium, exclusive image.
The Massachusetts house debates a three member gubernatorial commission to study and counteract race death by own action and landlord discrimination against families with children. The panel would report by February 1907, serve without pay, with expenses approved from the treasury.
Paul Minesvan 92 De Douglas Hyde, president of the Gaelic League of Ireland, is on a tour of the United States to promote the organization. He will deliver an address at a meeting at the People's Church this evening after arriving in the country last November and lecturing widely in the east before proceeding to the Pacific coast.
An old style ad promotes using the telephone to place drugstore orders for quick delivery. It emphasizes prompt response and constant reception of phone orders for any item customers want. The notice frames the phone as a direct route to rapid home delivery from the drug store.
Strong support for Senator Betts bill to submit a constitutional convention question to Maryland voters at the next November election. The current constitution, adopted long ago, is seen as dated with defects needing remedy and changes to align with modern times. Near Grants Pass two Southern Pacific trains collided. fireman J P Bargeer died and engineer Croker was badly injured.
Mrs. J. W. Coppinger of Boho suffered a spinal fracture when a wagon team bolted and threw her headfirst, leaving her paralyzed from the shoulders down. The accident mirrors a prior injury to Mrs. Cox and recalls the Cop pinger family history from Arkansas to Echo.
William Morrow has bought the Plumbing department of Goodman Thompson Hardware, taking the entire stock and continuing the business in the same location. The shop remains in the same place with the rear building leased to the purchaser. Morrow, once of Eugene, is related to the Mayrows of Heppner and has lived in Oklahoma, and he and his wife will reside in the city permanently.
Hasbrouck Tias Soldot, a noted young jeweler formerly of Pendleton, plans to buy the Hasbrouck jewelry store on Main Street in Athena. The deal has lingered for some time and final transfer is expected tomorrow. Sawtelle will run the shop in the fine building and promises improvements. Hasbrouck has not decided his post sale plans and will depart Pendleton for a time, with a possible return later.
In charge of collecting Indian music for the department of Indian affairs Gooey to Chemawa and then to the Yakima and Blackfoot reservations plans to travel after leaving Pendleton where a horseback injury delayed him. Sheepmen report strong wool prices and high sheep values with recent large ewe sales and optimistic prospects.
E T Waffle attends the medical department of the State University in his sophomore year serving as assistant to Dr Roy Matson in histology. He acts as demonstrator of histological microscopy and laboratory technique to freshmen and oversees sophomore laboratory work.
Dunlap has completed three neat residences near the end of town by the schoolhouse, built for rent. The neighborhood at the neat end of town shows notable activity in building operations.
An earthquake of long duration was felt this morning in Guayaquil. The Sumpler Lumber Milling Company reports a robust season ahead with several million feet of logs on hand and ample water in weight.
Prosser water rights are settled with government taking over the Prosser canal and irrigation for the valley. Benson of the Prover Falls Land and Power Company signed the agreement, with terms for August and the rest of the season. Reclamation engineers and E F Benson pushed the two projects toward construction with $1,750,000 allotted. Survey work to begin on reservoir sites and canal extensions once approval arrives.
Last Friday R. Raymond sold 1.2 sacks of wheat to Balfour Guthrie Co at 61 cents a bushel. He has 600 acres at Helix with 47 1 4 bushels per acre this year. He recently sold land near Helix for 35,000. Rumor about John B Rockefeller visiting Europe is dismissed as false.
A brief note extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for stomach liver and bowel disorders. It promises surprising relief and implies medicine was within reach, urging readers to try the remedy for lasting health.
An aged advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the sole medicine required to cure poor appetite indigestion heartburn dyspepsia biliousness chills or colds grippe costiveness and other ailments, promising broad and quick relief.
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