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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1913
Page
2
A combined Remodeling Sale and June White Sale starts Saturday morning June 7 in Pendleton. The firm touts fair play and open offers with unadvertised lots and mail orders filled in order as received, promising early shoppers the best selections and prices.
A local dry goods section advertises a June White Sale with reduced prices on hand towels, bath towels, unbleached and bleached towels, table linens and bed sprea ds. It promotes an assortment of summer home textiles including towels, table linens, crash toweling, blankets, comfortables, sheets, and bed spreads at notably lowered rates to attract summer shoppers.
Pendleton department stores promote a June White Sale with heavily discounted white lingerie dresses in marquisette and voile, middy blouses, lingerie waists, muslin underwear, and skirts. Prices range from a few cents to several dollars, highlighting big savings on nightgowns, petticoats, and corset covers.
Readable sale notes show June White Sale discounts across embroideries, laces, corsets, brassieres, handkerchiefs, and women’s underwear. Prices range from 89 cents to several dollars, with 1-2 price reductions on 45 inch embroideries and 1-4 off on embroidery packages and curtains.
A fashion and home advice column covers women's clothing details from gowns with ribbed textiles and velvet trim to jacket collars and maritime ruffles. It explains folding skirts for travel using tissue and shows chair maintenance tips to restore cane seating with hot soapsuds and boiling water.
Air kept dry advice suggests placing unstacked lime bowls in cellars or pantries near food and renewing lime periodically. A closet curtain pole method is offered to maximize closet space by supporting shelves and providing a mid pole for coats and skirts using brackets.
The item claims a better method for storing clothes by hanging them against a wall with individual covers. It suggests Mignonette keeps the files away and that placing blossoms around the house in summer will prevent fragrant odor from the files.
Annapolis Md June 4 Old graduates of the Naval Academy gathered for the twenty eighth annual reunion and discussed a plan to place a memorial window in the chapel in honor of Admiral Farragut. A subscription of three dollars from each graduate was planned. The window will cost about seven thousand five hundred dollars.
About 200 members of the National Sales Managers Association opened their two day annual convention in Philadelphia on June 6. H H Bigelow of St Paul Minn led the first session after brief speeches. Delegates from western and Pacific coast firms reported changes in general business due to recent political shifts and planned a sightseeing trip.
Ber nice Huggins, 11, daughter of Rev. J. M. Huggins of Dayton Washington, died suddenly at a neighbor's home while playing. The girl had been ill for months with heart trouble. Rev Huggins, captain of the local Methodist breeball team, returned from a game just as she died.
In Bulem, Ore on June 6 investigations by Harvey Beckwith and C B D Babcock reveal alleged fraud in petitions opposing the Workmen's Compensation Act. The two Industrial Accident Insurance commissioners report many petitions from Portland areas with questionable addresses. Beckwith cites personal knowledge of several fraudulent names and addresses.
In San Francisco on June 6 CC Castro tried to end his life by swallowing mercury tablets after a discussion of self murder with his wife in a downtown cafe. Mrs Castro says her husband appeared in high spirits when he took the poison and believes the conversation influenced his mind. he will recover.
New York June 6. A report to the board of aldermen by the special committee alleges police ineffectiveness in eradicating gambling and the social evil after the murder of Herman Rosenthal. A prior report urged removing Police Commissioner Waldo. Unauthorized text fragments follow.
A Chicago Record-Herald quip notes a son with musical training compelled to use his art in a moving picture setting. The exchange questions whether film work fits parental expectations, concluding that a musical education must find expression even in cinema.
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