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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1902
Page
3
A crowded Fourteenth Street car morning scene attracted attention as a young man with flowing hair, described as a promising prosecuting officer, was affronted by a passenger. The passenger claimed insult, but the man denies the accusation and remains calm as the crowd watches the exchange.
In a Chicago Tribune tale a prosecutor offers his seat to two women and a young man on a streetcar. The older woman declines, the pretty young woman refuses, and the man chooses the platform, while fellow passengers treat the scene as a joke.
A whimsical tale notes that children's sayings reveal wisdom, as two toddlers debate angels and feathers while a separate obituary mentions a coat and papers found with a dead man, unclaimed and likely never owned.
A San Francisco transaction of $112 500 to $112 600 marks the largest prescription payment on record. Businessmen funded a treatment for Bright’s Disease and Diabetes, testing it on eighty seven per cent of cases as of August 27 with thirteen per cent failures. Investigations included patient reports and physician input, with results published to solicit direct mail applications from John J. Patrow Company, 42 Montgomery Street.
Unsolved mystery recalls two notes signed John P Travis found with a man’s bones near the Umatilla bottoms. Items include 95 and 75 dollar notes, railroad ticket, baggage check, and a coat possibly linked to the deceased. Identity and fate remain unknown amid scattered clues and literary contest notes.
Sheriff Blakley reports daily receipts of 1400 dollars from the 181 taxes due Monday morning. Early payers receive a 3 percent rebate if settled before March 15, with penalties and interest applying after that date. Delinquent taxes draw a 10 percent penalty and 12 percent interest, and payment schedules extend to October for partial payments. Personal property taxes face sheriff levy if unpaid by April first or if half is not paid.
Fragmentary text notes a sequence to collect something after May 1st. No clear parties, places, or actions are identifiable beyond a deadline.
Weston prepares to welcome Umatilla County Pioneers Association members and friends for an annual reunion. A public meeting arranged to submit a proposition to hold the event in Weston, where the 2 years ago reunion was successful. Plans include baseball, grounds development, and a separate fund for permanent use with a committee: G. A. R. McGrew, L. C. Proebster, and Professor G. A. Peebles.
A letter from Rev. W. E Potwin to Pendleton Public Schools offers a $5 prize for a sight-reading contest. Requirements include at least six competitors, two prose selections of 400 words, one poetry selection of 300 words, judged on enunciation and interpretation, with the event public during Easter week.
Thomas W. McCue, 57, of Stark county Ohio, claims a nerve-shorting device to erase pain. Edison commends the invention as marvelous though McCue is not a doctor or electrician, only an inventor with six to seven years in electrical study. He once lived in California and returned to a McCue farm 18 years ago, exposing past work including a smoke consumer and electric horse-starter. The Jael machine purportedly generates a current of one one-hundredth thousandth of a volt.
A series of testimonials claim Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieves nervous prostration and female illnesses. Letters from Miss W Childs Burn and Mrs Samar Borst praise its calming, healing effects and urge other women to seek its help from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
A Boston woman remembered a dream of a storm tossed mariner seeking buried treasure in the Indian Ocean. Later aboard an ocean liner she finds an unfamiliar seaweed specimen identical to one in a professor’s library, linking her dream to a real find at a British Museum site and rekindling memory of the voyage.
Forbes & Company in Boston will publish Buell Hampton by Wills George Emerson a miner from Southern Wyoming who wrote the book in a Sierra Madre cabin. A New York critic calls it the fret manuscript among recent novels and predicts it will rank with the era’s best. Dramatization talks are already underway.
An old advertisement notes Lane's Family Medicine as a pleasant bedtime herb drink that cleanes the bowels each day and improves complexion by morning. It mentions price 266 and sale through Tallman & Co. with claims of gentle action and daily use.
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