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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1912
Page
2
A short classified note lists white buck, velour calf, tan Russia and patient colf as available shoe styles with coloni al buckles or plain pumps. Prices shown indicate values at $5.00 with sale values of $3.85.
Women face steep prices as new spring coats are sacrificed to savings efforts. The market shows tight supply and retailers push discounts while shoppers seek value in timely styles.
A sales notice advertises a limited time offer with remaining skirts in voices serges and worsteds in blue brown black white maroon and other shades. Nearly every style is available at YOUR CHOICE ONE HALF Price.
Whether you spend your holiday here in town in the mountains or at a campsite these suits offer comfort and enjoyment. Prices range across options to fit different budgets for travel and leisure.
Local shop promotes a Wednesday sale on fancy dress silks with remaining silk dress patterns from a spring lot. Assortment updated, with yardage priced at 67 cents and pattern materials offered at 1.25 to 1.50 per unit.
Town merchants advertise a sale on boys suits to ensure every boy can get a new outfit for the holiday. All-wool Hercules suits, shower proof with taped seams and reinforced construction are discounted 25 percent, with prices ranging from $3.00 to $6.00 for various tag sizes, excluding wash suits.
Fresh arrival offers heavy weight linen items in a beautiful range of patterns. Hem stitched and scalloped ends on finest linen duck vary by guest and regular sizes. Prices are listed in the sale.
A local shop advertises boys waists with Mothers' Friend featured as the best tailored option. For Wednesday a special price reduction is offered, highlighting new waist sizes and enhanced fit at 40 to 67 cents.
Ad line offering Wasil Lawns with patterns and designs described as new crisp wash lawns all solars. Prices listed as ten cents per yard.
Dr James B Taylor of Eugene argues that sex hygiene instruction should emphasize the mind as well as the body. He urges thorough, two sided education to uplift youth, with proper schooling delivering high ideals and constructive guidance beyond typical family means.
An advertisement urges readers to combat heat related bowel disturbances with Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It extols gentle action, safety for women and children, and claims it prevents summer diarrhoea while reducing doctor bills. Free trial bottles offered by mail from Dr W B Caldwell of Monticello Illinois.
Seaford Delaware wealthy widower James H Furbush who seeks a fifth wife traveled across the United States visiting about one thousand women. Returning home he plans to live on his farm after four years of courting and letters from across the states. He says most women pursued his wealth not him and that only two he met were potentially suitable but he did not marry them.
London reports Great Interest in the optical convention at South Kensington over the octophone exhibition. Scientists describe the device as promising new avenues in light and sound research, with discussions focusing on potential applications and theoretical implications.
Prof. E B Fournier d Albe, lecturer at Birmingham, describes the octophone a camera like box with two receivers. Blindfolded users hear ticking or grating sounds as shadows pass and light alters noise enabling detection of people moving and even locating windows by sound. He hopes it aids the totally blind.
Toulon france an official inquiry into the premature explosion of a 6 inch gun on the armored cruiser Julia Michelet shows two explosions. Thirteen men were hurled to the deck and burned. After ashore the gun was fired again under Admiral Sourrieu with ten more injured. One arm blown off. Lieut Ernest Guelt and ten seamen died. Explosions blamed on draft from sudden breech closing igniting sparks from prior charges and poor gun cleaning practices in the French navy.
A damage suit against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, brought for infant Gerard Nugent as next friend, was dismissed by Supreme Court Justice Rapper in Brooklyn. The suit claimed the baby suffered injuries when the mother was jolted by a street car starting suddenly six weeks before the birth, and the baby was born lame.
In Milan and Naples, a 19 year run of weekly numbers paid out over 400000 in lottery winnings as Italy’s state monopoly revenue fund celebrated. Fireworks lit multiple Naples districts while two numbers that matched in July 1893 sparked further cheers.
Dysentery is serious but curable. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has cured it even when malignant and epidemic. For sale by all dealers.
Henry Wedd of Lenexa Johnson county Kansas, age 91, still swings a scythe and recently carried the old tool to his pasture to cut a wagonload of hay for the fun of it. He owns a farm valued over $100,000, raises cattle and hogs, and travels to Kansas City to buy feeders and ship them to his farm.
A stray bulldog leapt into a parked car and displaced a guard pointer. Passersby and an owner with a club managed to dislodge the intruder after a ferocious growl. Investigation confirmed the bulldog’s stray status and its bold claim to the vehicle.
For soreness of the muscles whether from violent exercise or injury there is nothing better than Chamberlains Liniment It also relieves rheumatic pains For sale by all dealers.
Two thefts reported in Oklahoma City area. The Erick Purity club lost its library valued around 300 dollars, including dictionaries and fiction. J M Brasfield of Calvin lost a feather bed. he offered a 25 dollar reward and warned the thief to return the item or face exposure via search warrant.
United States circuit court of appeals ruled opium may be lawfully produced from yen-shee the reform remainder of a smoked opium bipetul while opium made from yen-hi remains contraband. Alfred Shelly freed after a one year sentence for unlawfully manufacturing opium for smoking.
Eight month old Gerard Nugent of New York was plaintiff in a $25,000 damage suit alleging injuries before birth. The case details focus on claims of harm to the infant and potential liability. Court proceedings and status not fully disclosed in the fragment.
St Louis David E Beatty of Jerseyville owns a pointed dog that sat in its master's car seat. The dog reportedly drove out the pointer who had been in the mast er's seat, and Beatty, leaving his office, hurried outside.
Three horses died after slipping and plunging over a precipice near Cloverdale and Santa Rosa. Witnesses reported the accident as a trio of animals fell from a steep bank while being led for pasture. Authorities investigated the incident for possible safety lapses.
An advertisement promotes Elly's Cream Balm as fast relief for catarrh symptoms including a blocked nose sore throat and foul breath. It claims cleansing healing antiseptic action with no mercury or cocaine and promises rapid improvement after application urging readers to buy a fifty cent bottle from local druglists for immediate treatment.
A heavily laden wagon plunged off a mountain road west of Cloverdale, dashing the driver Charlie Groomfield to death. The wagon horse was cut free and fell 300 feet below the road, badly injured. The surviving horse escaped the wreckage after the crash.
The U S transport Sheridan with four companies of troops bound for St Michaels and Fort Davis is trapped in shifting ice near Nome Alaska. In five days the vessel has advanced about one hundred miles westward and risks being carried toward the Arctic via the Bering Strait if release does not come.
Drury B Bad gerly, a wealthy farmer living near Pleasant Hill, Parksburg West Virginia, was attacked by a swarm of bees that settled in his hair and beard and stung him to death. The incident occurred as he worked outdoors, and rescuers could not save him despite efforts.
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