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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1912
Page
2
The notice promotes an after supper sale with new merchandise offered at fraction of real value. It highlights cash saving on purchases and an extra five percent savings through T. P. W. trading stamps.
A local sale announces a closeout on about 100 pairs of overalls with broken lines and sizes, offered this evening. Shoppers are urged to act quickly to secure remaining stock at a special no-laboring man can afford price.
A Montclair family nearly missed a Voltaire voyage to Rio Janeiro when a clock delay and moving pictures caused three of seven siblings to fall behind. Telegraph and a fast tug kept the four tardy Clark children from missing the ship off the Statue of Liberty. The report blends a dramatic rescue with a separate note on subway safety and bubonic disease concerns.
Indignant Columbus residents protest the sale and conversion of the historic old red school house into a hen coop. The building, erected the year of the Missouri Compromise, was once the village’s intellectual center and educated many notable citizens from Columbus Corry and Northwestern Pennsylvania.
Newport reports millionaire John H K Drexel Jr plans to quit idle riches and move to Texas within a fortnight to enter the lumber business. The Yale alumnus, famed horseman and swimmer, aims to rough it, with his social-aligned family backing him as his mother remains a local leader.
A recent fatal accident involving Rev. Elmer Weld on Cockspur Street highlights rising street dangers from mechanically propelled vehicles. London reports 410 killed and 14,254 injured in the past year due to traffic incidents.
The State Highway Commission ordered surveys for a northern Oregon entrance road funded by a $14,000,000 bond issue. Tentative selection favors the Mission to Coles route. Additional surveys cover Monterey County from King City to San Miguel boundary, San Luis Obispo boundary through Edna and Arroyo Grande, and Kern County from Lebec to Bakersfield.
In Montrose Colorado Police Magistrate John Beeble set a new high fine for bootlegging offenses at 300 dollars per count. City authorities teamed with the State Anti Saloon League to stamp out selling liquor, aided by two Denver detectives who gathered evidence in a drive against illegal liquor operations.
Early estimates place the apricot yield at about five-eighths of a normal crop in Visalia. Quality is excellent and prices are satisfactory with most fruit sold on contract. Pack prices run 3 to 4 cents, some tonnage at a quarter-cent higher. Peaches hold firm at 4.5 to 4.75 cents as buyers expect a heavy tonnage.
Lack of funds halts two of six federal survey parties surveying government lands. Surveyor General Kingsbury reports one team in Okanogan county sent back from the field. No work expected this year until Congress passes a new appropriations bill.
American medical officers arrive June 27 to assist Porto Rican authorities stamp out the plague in Fan Juan Puerto Rico. They confirm insular physician findings and mobilize response to the bubonic outbreak.
East St. Louis hearing details J J OToole of winning $80,000 from King Edward VII set of four eights against four fours in a poker hand. OToole received a gold purse as reward, then pawned it via sister Mrs Thad Strait who redeemed it and turned it over to attorney A H Hunt. Wilkins charged with larceny by ballee bound over in $500 bond.
Testimony before Consul General Anderson in Hongkong implicates ship officers in graft and opium smuggling. Chinese witness Quock Lim describes payments for aboard positions on the Korea and Manchuria and 27 stowaways ferried to San Francisco. Opium shipments totaling thousands of taels are alleged alongside a locomotive workers pension plan drawing attention.
Special correspondence from Adams Oregon reports Ruth Rled received a peanut removed from her nose after a mishap on a Tuesday. The piece also notes several local residents visiting Pendleton and spending the Fourth at rivers and dances in Helix, Linn, and surrounding areas.
Miss Josephine E. Tilden, a Minnesota University of Minnesota botany instructor, will lead a botanical expedition to Australia and the South Seas as the state university representative. Accompanied by her mother, she will study sea plants with native guides and guards, taking August to October on the east and south coast of Australia, then returning in fall 1913 after a year’s leave of absence granted by the board of regents.
An 19th century health advert states a torpid liver causes daytime laziness and impurities. It promotes Herbine as a cure for liver inactivity, cleansing the bowels and restoring health. The remedy is priced at 50 cents and sold by A. C. Koeppen & Bros.
Colfax Washington reports steady rain improving crop conditions after a heat spike. P W Cox of Hay notes heat damage in Western Whitman county but cooler weather and showers help grain. central Whitman experiences minor injury with fall grain, heavy soil, and larger grain. Farmers urge timely rain for yield boost.
Washington reports the remarkable case of George E. Diggs head waiter who unknowingly carried a glass fragment in his jaw for about 25 years. The piece measuring roughly 1/8 by 5/8 inch surfaced after a liniment drew it to the skin and Diggs removed it. He recalls a childhood accident when a window fell and left glass pieces in his jaw, once thought all removed.
Rome Baron Vincenzo Paterno a former cavalry lieutenant in the Italian army was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Princess Giula Trigona al Sandella a lady in waiting to Queen Helena on March 2 1911. The court ordered seven years of solitary confinement within the term.
For soreness of the muscles whether from violent exercise or injury there is nothing better than Chamberlains Liniment This liniment also relieves rheumatic pains For sale by all dealers.
The Stanfield Oregon Ladies Aid elected officers Tuesday at Mrs. Spencer's home. President Mrs. Geo Anderson, first vice Mrs. L T Kennison, second vice Mrs. E Severance, secretary Mrs. G C Coe, treasurer Mrs Elmer Reeves. Also notes residents arriving and local visits including Mrs J O Kincaid settling in at the McWilliams house and other residents in town.
New York Charles F McKim of McKim Mead and White left an estate valued at 276730. Margaret McKim of St James the daughter is the chief beneficiary and receives art works jewelry silver and books. He helped found the American Academy of Rome and sought a 1 million subscription to endow it. The executor lists 20734 from his firm interest and a 6800 note to Stanford White with about 800 still due.
William Percival of Camden sent a bottle of medicine with his name on the wrapper as a joke. Two years later a shipment reached Columbus Ohio where a drug store worker found the note and connected with Percival. Miss Bessie Ballard of a post substation arranged a meeting leading to romance and marriage.
Cecil Brunswick Smith a renowned railroad and hydroelectric engineer died at his Toronto home from cancer at age 48. He helped design or build nearly every major hydroelectric plant in America, marking him as one of the world’s foremost experts in the field.
Kuhio Kalanianaole, Hawaii delegate, declares he will seek reelection regardless of party organization actions. He states his campaign platform will be based on his own record and priorities rather than party directives.
Mrs Riley Laramore of Goodwater Missouri says persistent heartburn and dyspepsia vanished after using Thedford's Black Draught in small nightly doses. She reports quick relief from eating distress and no recurrence after two small packages. It cleanses the system aids digestion and regulates the bowels. Price 25¢.
Health is the foundation of good looks and wise women protect strength through pregnancy. The advertisement touts Mother's Friend as a long-used external remedy to lubricate muscles and tissues, ease tenderness, and prepare the body for natural motherhood. Sold at drug stores with a free book for expectant mothers from Bradfield Regulator Co. Atlanta Ga.
Rumors say former Governor Carter may lead the Roosevelt party as planters and Frear critics unite to oppose the on American rule. The item notes local political maneuvering and a heated convention atmosphere amid factional alignments.
State of Ohio Toledo Lucag County J Frank Cheney sworn oath that senior partner of F J Cheney & Co will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Sworn before me this 9th day of December. Hall's Catarrh Cure acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Send for testimonials free. F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Sold by all druggists. Delicacy and Family Pile for constipation.
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