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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1906
Page
6
An advertisement touts the Hotel St George as modern with steam heat throughout and en suite rooms. It promises telephones and fire protections, hot and running water in all rooms, and direct connections to the office, presenting the hotel as one of the Midwest’s most up to date accommodations.
The Hotel Pendleton has been refurbished with modern telephone and fire alarm connections in all rooms. En suite baths in single rooms. Traveling men’s headquarters with sample rooms and free bus service offered.
Rates listed as $2, $2.50 and $3 apply to connections only for three block limits around depots. The notice outlines pricing for patrons using the bar and billiard hall facilities within the limited area.
Win aa Bogey and WINONA advertise wagons hacks and budgets with safe ride claims. They promote gas powered engines for irrigation and milling by Fairbanks-Morn agents, offering estimates and prices.
Reports from Baker City describe rampant cheating by cruisers who locate hundreds of easterners on John Day and Harney timber tracts. Locators allegedly misrepresent land, sell rights, and place claimants on unsuitable ground, with arrests threatened and investigations planned as officials withholds filings.
A damaged Daily East Oregonian excerpt quotes unnamed speakers denying efforts to seize control of the Milwaukee system and discussing railroads, coal mines, and Pacific Coast company plans. The note mentions S. Paul and Harriman interests and interstate commerce concerns, with reference to Northern Pacific coal output and state disposals.
Yakima city engineer A A Nico notified contractors the eight hour law must be observed or contracts will be canceled. The move follows a Supreme Court ruling in Olympia that eight hour workdays are legal. Two contractors are affected John Gltligan Co and J L Ballenger with street and sewer work. fines and contract cancellations possible for noncompliance.
Shortage of suitable horses for Army maneuvers at American Lake forces the government to advertise rentals at $1.50 per day for nine weeks. Initially 60 horses were secured by purchase, but remaining needs cannot be met without high prices, risking encampment funds.
Wool growers advertised a wool miles sale here today offering 590000 pounds but only 12000 pounds sold. Brown and Adams of Boston paid 17 percent cents per pound. Woolgrowers plan to hold for a better price.
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure for numerous female ailments. It claims the medicine regulates periods, eases backache, nervousness, and displacements, and aids childbirth. Mrs Pinkham and her daughter-in-law offer free advice to women, with letters read by women only.
State Engineer John H. Lewis, in Harney county, urges modern irrigation laws for Oregon. He cites Utah as a model, stresses daily long term stream discharge records, an abstract of vested rights, and a state water administration to allocate water fairly, reduce court battles, and protect investments.
A partial antique advertisement for a clairvoyant and palmistry service claims to tell names ages marital status and life changes, offers trance sittings and oral life readings, guarantees satisfaction or no fee, lists a street address and hours though with garbled typography.
In a fragmentary Philadelphia Prem report Mire and Eleapore inspect Mrs Nuriteh's gallery. The dialogue hints at ownership questions over artworks with cryptic phrasing and unusual names, suggesting a dispute or authentication moment. The text reads as a surreal dialogue about authorship and payment.
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