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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
6
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a cure for lame back and kidney bladder liver trouble. It offers a free sample bottle and a book by mail, urging readers to mention the newspaper. Bottles sold by druggists, address in Binghamton New York.
The Oregon Daily Journal reports 1908 wheat crop estimates for the Pacific Northwest. Oregon 12,500,000 bushels. Washington 29,000,000. Idaho 7,000,000. total about 48,500,000. Acreage totals rise to 2,646,000 across the three states amid erratic weather conditions and a larger overall planting than 1907.
A Gardiner Maine woman and a Chicago resident credit Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing female troubles without operation. The pamphlet promotes the remedy, its claimed 30 year standard status, and invites sick women to write for advice.
Thornton Music Co at 613 Main Street advertises high grade pianos and organs Columbia Edison and Victor talking machines records cabinets and musical merchandise to customers seeking quality instruments and equipment.
Salem Oregon June 25 Next to Portland Medford has by far the largest number of licensed automobiles of any city in Oregon Portland has 642 Medford 48 There are about 1 020 automobiles in Oregon official license books Medford leads after Portland and Salem follows with 25 autos listing many towns with single to low double digit counts study of state totals
A long list of names and places appears, including Harrisburg Portland Walla Walla Seattle Spokane Chicago Athena Athena Caledonia Echo Wattsburg and the Hotel St George. The roster features individuals such as W. T. Ludbrun F. M. O'Mara J. W. Fox G. Lilley B. Richards and many others spanning multiple states and cities.
An advertisement from Pendleton Drug Co asserts You Should Know This Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure any kidney and bladder trouble within the reach of medicine, insisting no medicine can do more for such conditions.
E A Holmes in Portland conducted several interviews with General Manager O'Brien and Engineer Buckley. They assured completion of the railroad to Wallowa in 40 days. A carload of laborers arrived from Portland, and the temporary bridge across Looking Glass Creek was finished while materials for bridges and track were rushed forward.
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