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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1913
Page
2
The ad offers lawns priced from 8 1 3 to 12 1 2 cents per yard in neat designs and colors with floral patterns. Includes 5 cent lot two of assorted lawns and batiste across colors and designs, with some dimities in 15 to 20 cents per yard range. Feeney 10¢.
A local remodeling sale offers wash materials in sheer batiste shadow stripes and checks at 25 to 40 cents per yard. A full line of mid-summer colors in veils and auto veils is advertised with remodeling prices ranging from 98 cents to 3 dollars. Multiple colorful fabrics and accessories are featured as affordable options for season fashion.
Local retailer touts deep discounts on chambray and soft collar shirts, golf shirts, and work shirts, plus remodeling sale on towels table linens and linen napkins. Prices drop to 98 cents for golf shirts and 25 to 68 cents for various shirts and towels, with extensive linen napkin offerings and toweling at low rates.
An advertising item for Pendleton markets touts a sanitary basement selling fruits and vegetables fresh daily. It features extra fancy pineapple cans, Italian olive oil in bulk, Welch grape juice in various sizes, quick meal suggestions for warm days, and a range of olives and pimentos.
Subscriptions for public drinking fountains pour in with a near complete donor list. Exceptions include Mrs. W. F. Matlock giving five dollars and James Johns, Sr. ten dollars toward a fountain at Court and Main. Local contractor plans are set, with hope to install more than three fountains and possibly fund a civic fountain near the depot grounds. The Civic club thanks all contributors and grants each donor a one year club membership. a long list of names follows.
Washington reports on the Nutritive Investigation department of the Bureau of Chemistry. Dr Langworthy explains the body as a machine requiring fuel measured in calories and nitrogen. The calorimeter tests diet and activity, showing how much food is needed for mental and physical labor.
June 2 report from Wallowa notes continued rains and warm weather driving Bear Creek and the Wallowa River to rise past four year highs. Several bridges washed out or threatened. families relocate from Hear Creek as floods extend along the valley. Train delays persist due to slides and washouts from a severe two day storm.
An ad praising Dr King’s New Life Pills as especially good for the aged, noting they act promptly and easily without pain. Sold at the stated price and recommended by EKoeppens.
The Orpheum presents two reels of Midnight Bell a Selig masterwork and a Biograph tale If We Only Knew featuring Horatio Spar kins Flora Finch and Courtenay Foote A coronet hunting mother meets a severe shock as a dry goods clerk enjoys a close call with a potential romance
Vaudeville style program notes list Edison and Kalem shorts for Tuesday. Vitagraph presents The Artist's Great Madonna starring Miss Lillian Walker with Julia Gordon Marin Rose Tapley and Robert Gallard in a tale of a painter seeking a model to embody a Madonna. Also shown are The Hash House Count and Toothache, plus a splendid seape rrace performance from Marc MacDermott in Edison.
A two reel war drama shown as a first run picture. Scenes begin at the Presidio in San Francisco then move to the Philippines. The plot centers on an American skirmish with natives, delivering strong action and a thrilla. Also shown are Newlywed and Honeymoon Lodging comedies from Eclair.
Baltimore reports the board of estimates plans to bill state offices in the courthouse from 80 000 to 120 000 dollars annually for room usage. Affected are the recorder of wills sheriff state’s attorney and clerks of the courts who already pay or file returns to the state. This raises city revenue and recovers funds the city must turn over to the state each year.
An honest farmer tends his land and animals with integrity, earns trust through reliable work, and shares surplus fairly. A thief takes without permission, harms others, and gains through deceit or force.
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