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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1919
Page
9
Washington June 17 The daily average of the post bureau includes over 100 workers handling nearly as much mail as parcels and letters. About eighty thousand pieces of incoming mail and many letters pass through daily. The bureau uses franking but foreign correspondence requires over 1080 dollars in stamps monthly.
A fragmented East Oregonian page describes a Pendleton week of social events, with mentions of family departures, visits, and community gatherings. It highlights attire details, including evening gowns, lace collars, and debutante fashion, alongside routine notices of travelers and local residents.
A 1919 United Press piece notes frock trends described as a jamboree of mintless summer styles. It compares dresses to juleps, praising dainty sashes, ribbons, and light fabrics while cautioning about the impracticality of embellishments after June thirtieth.
Htronkiin baseball players are pouting for Chick Ward and the Dodgers. Former shortstop Jak Poetmer Tok from France, a Battery TAS Field Artillery veteran, discharged, will rejoin the Brooklyn team. Willie Ward starred on the championship A. B. PR squad with Grover Nevelumt Adesaimiler.
Instructional note promotes dry cleaning by using Boltite soap and gasoline to clean fabrics indoors or outdoors. It claims to prevent wrinkling and bleaching if applied with Belvite soup and suggests following package directions for horse dry cleaning.
The piece presents Secretary Baker’s view that demobilization remains far off and uncertain. It notes wartime Prohibition factors and questions if President Wilson will align with the technical timing of demobilization. The text references ongoing plans within the offices of the Chief of Bureau and suggests delays beyond the near term.
A garbled report from Washington references an increased appropriation for the navy, noting a six hundred million dollar figure amid a jumble of names and phrases. Other fragments mention a love interest in Inez and a mention of a birthday proposal, though the overall meaning is unclear due to damaged OCR.
The first women’s publicity bureau in the nation’s capital is launched with Mrs Alice Gram Hidden, Mrs Florence Brewer Boecker, and Mrs Eleanor Taylor Marsh as members. They pledge not to compromise their husbands and use their maiden names Taylor-Gram and Brawor. The bureau aims to organize both local and national women’s groups.
A humorous exchange outside the Capitol shows a friend joking about during days and minors. The senator counters that times have changed and a man must clearly prove he is counting all by himself, noting the visible attire of khaki uniform and overalls.
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