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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1906
Page
6
Grieving mother recounts a stubborn eczema outbreak affecting the girl’s legs arms and hands. Advertised remedies claim instant relief though medical advice remains uncertain as the family seeks relief and comfort amid distress.
A 1905 testimonial from St Walden Tennessee praising Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills for eczema and poison oak. The family, twelve miles from a doctor, reports rapid relief and complete recovery after using the remedies, noting costs to reach medical care.
Chief Postal Inspector John P. Clim describes Alaska as a separate postal province with a frontier mail system that expands to meet arctic winters. Mails reach Kotzebue, Nome, and Fairbanks with biweekly to thriceweekly service, aided by mushers, dogs, and rugged trails.
The summer cost reached $190,000 with successful operation before season end. Winter work is active in the Tanana valley and Seward peninsula. Major strike activity is on the Kanderina river about 100 miles west of Fairbanks, with up to 1000 people expected to winter there.
Domestic merchandise receipts across Alaska rose 83 million year over year, totaling 14.76 million. Nome led imports with 2.92 million, Fairbanks 1.57 million, St Michael 1.03 million, Seward 0.99 million. 1994 import figures for key towns listed as Nome 1,088.20, Fairbanks 367,501, St Michael 502,820, Seward 231,600.
The Holse News reports the Boise post office weighs mail traffic. The government now weighs incoming and outgoing mail, handled by six passenger trains and lines. The heaviest weekly mall weighed 2750 pounds, the largest from the east. Daily mail volume may reach about 10 tons.
Horace Dunlap ex sheriff of Lakeview reports Philip Lynch, a major woolgrower from Lake county, arrived at the Miller ranch with news that snow over two feet deep and crusted is killing sheep by the thousands in the desert north of Warner valley.
An advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a one hundred dollar reward for incurable cases. It cites endorsements and a Toledo supplier. Separately Huntington sportsmen form a Rod and Gun club with a trap shooting ground planned. F S Bubb is president and Thomas Huston is secretary-treasurer. Traps and paraphernalia ordered for the new club.
The text touts DeWitt's Little Early Risers as a universal cure for stomach and liver issues. It claims thousands of users find relief from headache constipation biliousness jaun dice torpid liver and pale complexion. It also notes famine in northern Japan with severe cold and growing misery.
A Pendleton Oregon trader, M. Delaporte of Alta House, testifies that after a severe shoulder injury and kidney problems he used Doan's Kidney Pills. He reports rapid relief and improved back and kidney condition after one box, noting the product’s effectiveness and urging readers to buy Doan's from Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo New York, sole US agents.
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