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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1912
Page
5
A local store advertises an extra special sale featuring over 35 new this year styles. Suits and dresses are offered for half price to close out the stock, with details to be seen in the store window tonight.
A shop advertises a closeout of 30 dresses in cotton veil silks mesaline foulards and serges in nearly all shades. Valued to 20 dollars, they are marked at 7.85. See large show window tonight.
Many short notices list goods services rentals and sales including coal wood and milk cows. Rentals include furnished rooms apartments and a front office. Local businesses advertise screen doors sawmills and furniture moving with contact numbers and addresses in Pendleton Oregon. The page also promotes films and a vaudeville style one night stand act with local theater listings.
Tuesday change offers a romantic French revolution tale titled Days of Terror with Duke Charles Kent and Duchess Julia Swayne Gordon as leads. Villain played by Delany, counterplot by Leah, set in Paris palace life and lower slums, praised for character and acting. Also Edison comedy The Angel and the Stranded Troupe presented.
Debris from a locomotive wreck near La Grange leads to embalming and inquest as families mourn. Bodies were taken to morgue, valuables stolen by ghouls, and an Interstate Commerce Commission official seeks material for investigation. Coroner Hoffman outlines three questions about flagging, block signals, and train response while soliciting agents for a money making scheme.
The Bloomington Holda Tourney in Bloomington, Illinois, opened today and will run to July 20. Several contestants compete for gold and silver cups, with extensive player entertainment planned at the Country Club grounds.
Toledo July 16. The Interlake Yacht ing association at Put-in-Bay begins a one week event featuring a novel chase after an 18 foot launch started with engine running and wheel turned but with no one aboard. Handicaps will be set to balance the craft.
A roundup of local visitors and residents from Hermiston Athena Weston and surrounding towns. Notables include W Alcott and W C Stewart, Sheriff T D Taylor, Leo Shupe, George and Anna Burris, H R Newport, Edgar W Smith, Anita Kirkpatrick, Antone Nolte, Harry Frye, C BE Troutman and Thelma Thompson, with travels to Pendleton Echo Ukiah and Aberdeen during the period.
Seattle hosts the annual Golden Pot latch opening with an immense crowd today. Officials expect fifty thousand to one hundred thousand visitors over the week long event. A grand parade featuring Elks and acirets delighted spectators as Erik’s day was celebrated.
Delegates from across the country gather in Milwaukee for the National Association of Coroners inaugural convention. The meeting aims to organize branches nationwide and discuss plans to reform the coroner system amid widespread objections in parts of the country.
Victor Colorado July 14 The annual convention of the Western Federation of Miners opened here today Delegates will outline laws to be presented to state legislatures and probably adopt resolutions protesting an alleged confession involving Clarence Darrow and alleged big labor leaders connected to wrongdoing.
July 15 1924 Schenectady New York the socialist administration fights fee dealers over ice pricing Mayor Lunn says the city will press ahead with selling ice at 25 cents a hundredweight while dealers push 40 cents an injunction blocks sales until July 28 as the battle continues
Senorita Luisa Copetillo editor of The Woman and Porto Rican votes for women advocate will speak at Carnegie Hall tonight. Dressed in Turkish trousers and a knee length white coat with an Andy Panama hat she aims to form an international club to advance women’s rights worldwide.
Rates have been found discriminatory between localities and unreasonable in themselves, reflecting unregulated growth that favored large cities. A heavy burden falls on small weight packages—precisely what express carriers were created to move. The railroad company to round out the branch of its type.
A long discussion of proposed national rate reform for parcel and express shipments compares railroad and express services, argues against current nonuniform rates, and outlines the commission's plan to standardize charges while soliciting public comment. It notes increases mainly affect higher weight packages and sets a show-cause date of October 9, 1912 for carriers.
The notes compare new and existing sending costs for city to Chicago and New York to Denver routes. It lists rates for parcels of 3, 10, and 25 pounds over 1000 and 2000 miles, showing reductions from current charges such as 27 to 37 cents, 42 to 77 cents and 1.25 to 1.64 dollars, with 25-pound 1990 miles at 76 cents versus 1.10 today and 2000 miles at 1.64 versus 2.26 today.
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