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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1918
Page
7
Classified ads and notices listing furnished housing for adults only and other small services. Includes brief mentions of a short order cook job, furniture for sale, and a weed removal service with contact details and locations.
An old remedy promotes Sage Tea Turas and Wyeth Rage and Sulphur Compound to darken gray hair. The preparation involves applying a solution with syringes or soft cloths to strands, allegedly restoring natural color after repeated use. It claims gradual darkening without curing or preventing disease.
Washington July 14 Nearly 26 million United States wartime food leaflets have been distributed by the United States Department of Agriculture during the past six months by home demonstrations community centers farm bureaus and libraries. The May 15 total shows 15 921 340 leaflets distributed mainly through committees and by demonstrators in homes kitchens and farms to educate households. Manufacturers and dealers bought large quantities for employees and customers.
Leaflets prepared by specialists from the department of agriculture and the food administration have been tracerated in foreign engines and distributed among Elin speaking people in Mary crater. The food administration has distributed many millions of them.
July dispatch from Munich reports soldiers fed on leaves and bark as hay runs short amid a zuck in Bavaria. The note cites a public panic in Hersegovina with bread shortages and other necessities strained. The Vienna reply to Prague signals heightened tensions as authorities weigh responses to protest actions.
Ten Mhote and Bike attend the national convention in Atlantic City. Nearly 100 members of both houses of Congress join the march alongside figures like Joe Cannon and Josephine Daiole. Secretary of the Navy reviews the parade and delivers an address. Mildred Dewey, widow of Admiral Dewey, attends from the inland operation.
The confidence of Frank Bopp former German consul general in San Francisco was sold at public auction today from the steps of the federal building. His forthright housekeeper, Mrs. Sotherder, held the note for 190n. The property was sold to satisfy a 70,000 fine imposed on KeeKey. The sale marks a two year sentence for McNeill’s toll and a related settlement.
A farmer named Worgiek in Little Falls Minnesota killed three of his children with a knife in a shocking act. A fourth child, a baby, survived, reportedly unharmed, while neighbors and authorities investigated the motive and circumstances amid disturbing rumors about crop concerns.
Portland July 13 The North West Society of Highway Engineers held its quarterly meeting with engineers from Oregon Washington and California in attendance. President Herbert Nuon urged cooperation among civil engineers nationwide. N M Thompson of Seattle and others urged stricter professional engineer registration laws. Speakers suggested forming an Engineers hub to foster closer personal relations and cooperation.
Government land on Wawailan is to be allocated to soldiers under the homestead act. Secretary Lane announced after a tour of the islands that many to be rewarded for service will receive land or credits. A preliminary appropriation of 1.9 million dollars will finance the program.
Denver Colorado on July 13 reports the boy's division of the Denver MLC enlisting in a toy army drill. The short note outlines organized participation by local youths and a civic spirit program conducted in the city.
A secretary J G Arnold calls on every boy to spend summer vacation in productive work, preferably in food production. The national War Garden contnued on and cooperates, furnishing the bayy with canning and gardening manuals.
A wartime advertisement extolls potato candy shaped like bones with chocolate coating and brittle texture, claiming a magical follow-up dish using tapioca flour bread and a mix of sweet flavors. The piece frames these foods as part of a war time menu influenced by shortages and homefront ingenuity.
In Los Angeles on July 1 Frank Kennedy was fined five thousand dollars and others received prison terms after a U S district court found them guilty of conspiring to obstruct the selective draft law. The group allegedly sought to induce draftees to undergo treatment to be rejected as unfit for service.
Washington July officials authorize by the Department of Agriculture the use of women in meat inspection at all stations where feasible. Shortage of male inspectors drives deployment of women as handlers, graders, canners and supervisors, with officials asserting women perform efficiently in supervising the receipt, bolting, branding and related tasks.
Chicago July 12. John Brown, described as colored, failed the bailiff and walked to the bar in Judge Keresen's court. He muttered about five women claiming to be married to him, while the judge questioned the situation, asking if they are all his wives.
Disjointed OCR fragment shows a judge involved with five claimants and a bus band context. Text is unclear and garbled, making precise facts or names unreadable.
A large fire in Orange, Texas damaged the entire Orange Maritime corporation plant valued at 5900,000 and two partially finished ships valued at 255,000 each. Two sleeping workers were found burned and rescued, with a possible external cause hinting at a launch accident involving the shipyard.
Seattle July 13 Identification tags adorn emblems at the non commissioned officer training camp that opened on the University of Washington campus Monday. Squad work and military tactics featured in a program led by Maj. A E Campbell with about 104 enrollees on the first day. The camp is larger than the first and includes many Beattle men and surrounding area residents.
Germany faces a tobacco famine with the supply row in the country nearly exhausted. November 1, Holland has been the chief source, and the empire from Dutch colonies has practically ceased. Germany will have no cigarettes next winter.
A July 7 British raid on Constantinople is reported with emphasis on air delivered bombs. The notice claims significant destruction and asserts the raid will prove the value of workers and their services.
An old advertising piece warns that rich foods strain kidneys causing pain backache and nervous symptoms. It promotes Jad Salts as a cure, claiming the preparation flushes the kidneys and clears bladder irritation, urging readers to buy for home use.
Prominent American women including Mrs Vincent Astor and others advocate rapid deployment of hundreds of energetic women to France for war work. The message urges immediate mobilization to support Allied efforts overseas.
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