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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1917
Page
2
A fashion blurb promotes pongees in natural colors with stripes, silk ribbons in Aztec, Chinese and Paisley patterns, tassels, ribbon bags, and woolen skirtings direct from mills. Yard prices range from $1.50 to $3.00 for fabrics and trims.
In Oakland California on March 1 a student bank at an Oakland high school began operations as a branch of the Farmers and Merchants Saving Bank of Oakland. Adele Walker serves as cashier with Edwin D. Fischm and Claire Went as assistants under the head of the school’s commercial department. Deposits amount to several hundred dollars as the bank operates briefly before transferring all accounts to a larger institution.
A collage of local notices lists various ads and services in Pendleton Oregon. Entries mention Dr Proebetel chiropodist, real estate for sale and rent including a five room bungalow and a furnished apartment, dairy cattle, moving and baggage services, a Federal truck business, an auto for hire, a garbage service, a taxi company, a funeral service, church events in Eagle Woodman Hall, a rooming house for sale, furniture repair, a meat market, and a Pendleton hairdressing parlor promoting Mrs Gervaise Grachedin.
An ad from Oregon Lumber Yard in Walla Walla Washington promotes No 1 quality paled alfalfa hay for spring delivery and notes price advantages. The text references Kemmerer coal equivalents and a contact phone line for ordering.
Pendleton girls basketball, state title hopefuls, travel to Eugene to face Silverton on a neutral floor in the valley. Officials Mina Campbell and Miss Harriet Thompson named. game follows City League finale at 7:30. Oakland and Pendleton hostesses to dance after.
Frue warns that if a child cries out in pain shows fatigue or listlessness worms may be the cause. Begin treatment with Kickapoo Worm Killer a laxative tablet that claims to kill worms and restore vitality. Available at druggists 250-Ady.
Personal notes from Umatilla and vicinity record multiple brief mentions. Joe Freeh of Lexington plans several days here while F A Brown visits Portland this week. A C Splaning goes to Hermiston, Arthur Means visits Rieth, and several locals travel by auto to Prosser.
Berlin reports three year imperial budget totaling 6,035,600,000 marks, about 1.254 billion dollars, increasing defense funding and eliciting renewed assurance to war loan subscribers. The wireless dispatch from Sayville notes the substantial wartime expenditure and the government’s push to secure support for ongoing loans.
Count von Roedern delivers the Reluchetar telay outlining a 3 768 000 000 mark year with 1 277 000 000 rise. Ordinary income 4 941 000 000 marks, extraordinary budget 913 000 000 marks against 99 000 000. The new taxation covers war profits and coal with added traffic taxes projected to raise about 200 000 000 marks. Taxes will fund continued wartime practices and ensure interest payments on war loans.
A historical ad promotes Musterole ointment to ease nasal congestion and chest cold symptoms. It claims faster relief than wet plasters, with use on the chest and throat for sore throats, bronchitis, asthma, neuralgia, and headaches. The copy notes no blistering and highlights its oil of mustard content.
Fragmentary ad claims to relieve headache and neuralgia pain with cenedy like Dr James powder. The text is garbled but suggests a medical pain relief product and mentions a date and packaging. The readable parts reference headaches and neuralgia relief.
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