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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1912
Page
3
Salem July 11 Governor West plans a horseback tour across Oregon to Boise for the governors conference in August. His regular Iron horse, a mare from the ranch, is slightly lame and may be swapped. He will ride the full distance, plan a Cherry Festival parade appearance, and deliver addresses en route on good roads.
Washington reporter recounts Mrs. L. V. King of Dean Wood who carried a live frog inside her stomach for 11 months after it was swallowed in well water. Doctors later removed it using a pump. the frog is now preserved in alcohol. The incident began when the tadpole was swallowed just as it was hatching.
Mrs King reported a frog reached full size and began to crawl into her throat, nearly suffocating her. After ignoring doctors, she sought city physicians and emergency care, where the frog was pumped out. The animal survived ten minutes in water and croaked before dying, a first recorded instance of such an animal living in a human stomach for eleven months.
In Logansport Indiana physicians tried various remedies to halt James McGowan’s five day hiccups. A giant firecracker was exploded at his bedside during the Fourth of July festivities in a bid to quiet him. The plan backfired and he died of exhaustion at age 48.
The advertisement proclaims Chamberlains Liniment as the best remedy for sore muscles from strenuous activity or injury and also claims relief for rheumatic pains. It notes availability through all dealers.
From New England North Dakota a cloudburst washed out 300 feet of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul main line east of Scranton and about three-quarters of a mile of the New England branch. Much stock was drowned and several families were rescued by boats.
At Lakeside Park Missouri a three cornered incident ends when Raymond Barnes is gored by a mad bull that first attacks the boy. The boy's father rushes to help and clubs the animal into submission, ending the danger.
A father heard his son screaming for help as four tout club members attacked him. In a violent struggle the assailants gored the boy, the ball wetting him, until the father, summoning all strength, knocked the attacker away and carried his son to a physician. The boy was reported in an overlong condition.
Mexico City reports the Montezumas palace atop Chapultepec will gain wireless telegraph gear. A second station is planned at Torreon. Both will use high power apparatus under the War Department to keep President Madero in constant contact with field commanders, with equipment already ordered.
Michigan City Indiana John Dzuma a factory employee died at a hospital after three co workers injected compressed air into his body as a joke. Albert Lehig one of the men charged said women held Dzuma while another injected air into his beds. He called it a joke.
In San Francisco California George F Gray a quarryman must pay 5000 into the estate of his deceased mother in law Mrs Millie Webster by order of Superior Court Judge Thomas F Graham This follows a ruling that advances Gray made for the support of his divorced wife and children while acting as executor were misapplied and that he should not be discharged as executor The divorce occurred in 1896 with alimony set at 250 monthly payments The case arose after a fire halted payments and a petition to discharge him was denied and the matter is pressed by Mrs Gray and her children Henry W Gray and Mildred F Wimberly
Dysentery is serious and dangerous yet curable. Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is claimed to have cured malignant and epidemic cases. Sold by all dealers.
A Pittsburg, Pa. couple says they own property worth over 480000 dollars but are penniless with no income to support themselves or their son, a Princeton University freshman. They allege the Bic Fund is tied up in a trust preventing access to funds.
Thomas MacConnell and wife petition the Common Pleas to compel Safe Deposit and Trust Co to furnish them with income. They claim the trust manager mishandled property, and that People's Savings Bank linked to the trust helped secure a judgment that blocked borrowing. Also includes an advertisement for Herbine and local solicitor.
For Sale. Thoroughbred Scotch Cable puppies Bitches five dollars and stud dogs seven fifty. Advertised by M L Little Route 1 Box 76 Amity Oregon.
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