Fragmentary notice with vague costs and items
The readable fragments describe prices 2.50 and sizes 8 percent to 2 with regular maybes and a girl referenced. Limited legible names or places appear, leaving a partial, unclear item.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1904
Page
5
The readable fragments describe prices 2.50 and sizes 8 percent to 2 with regular maybes and a girl referenced. Limited legible names or places appear, leaving a partial, unclear item.
Miscellaneous local items include store notices from Hawley and Kunkel's, sales on shoes and groceries, a restaurant opening, a lost tooth charm, and housing offers. Also mentions imports of government land transfers near Alba and four Kansas City youths drowning when their skiff overturned.
Spokane resident JOHN G. PINNEY testifies that PRIBY and TRIB improved his health and cured his liquor and tobacco desires. His letter, dated May 2, 2004, states it has been a year since he started TRIB and invites others to rely on his endorsed experience. For sale by Tallman & Co.
Otto Floto shows arrived early today in Boise and staged a creditable street parade. Tents are pitched on North Eighth Street covering acres, and the circus features are described as far above average and widely satisfying local crowds.
Personal mentions list Mr and Mrs C R Reten, Will Cummings, George Ferguson, Mrs J L Row, Charles Bell, Mr and Mrs F W Trimm, D L Killen, Mrs P E K McDuff, J M Graham, J Lally and Mark Shackelford, E O Commegys, George A Peebles, Mrs C A Payne, Miss Bertha Baker, Charles Cameron, J J Lally, Mrs Morgan Schrack, W B Montgomery, Myrtle Hawker, Tall Thompson, Elisha Estabrook, Elmer C E Gidwon, Howard brothers, Miss Hertha Adkins, Rev J R N Bell, water meter notices, and J T Brown reminder.
The Howard Vaudeville Company opened a week long engagement at Frazer with farce comedy and dazzling specialties. The company drew good crowds and promises a week of merriment for Pendleton. The program shifts to Wednesday Friday and Sunday performances. Schwartz and Greulich report 1000 feet of track installed at their cold storage plant improving labor efficiency and space usage for packaging.
Postmaster Lot Livermore received department permission for a summer vacation starting July 26. He will spend most of the time in the Willamette valley. Miss Annie M. Markham and Miss Margaret Yenney have gone to Western Oregon for about four weeks. They will divide time between the coast and rally points.
J L Coerper, recently from Germany, seeks a lease to farm Diamond Head crater after observing its soil and beetle free environment. He envisions vineyards and watermelons with a pack trail for seed and harvest, noting the crater’s protection from pests. The land office will consider the lease in due course.
The notice outlines special excursion rates from Pendleton to Chicago and St Louis and to other coast points, with varying return routes and sale dates from June to October. It lists agent contact, and mentions W and O railway summer rates to Westport Long Beach and other locales with joint and local notes. It also references a marriage notice, a vacation by Walter Adams, and a Spokane laundrymen convention, plus a Boottisdale monster reservoir flood and a quip about a horse and a man.
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