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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1904
Page
2
Classic medical ad copy promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder issues. It urges home tests with stained linen, lists ailments cured, and invites readers to request a free sample bottle and a book by mail from Dr Kilmer and Co of Binghamton New York.
March 4 quake rocked eastern Tennessee while New York Governor Odell declines the national Republican chairmanship. March 5 bank notes redeemable in Washington total 753 410 dollars as major rail receipts list Pennsylvania Central first Southern Pacific second New York Central third.
Two masked men robbed the till of six dollars after shooting a spectator in the jaw at the Fish erman s saloon in Seattle on Saturday night. A large sturgeon weighing 375 pounds was caught off Paget Island and will go to the St. Louis exposition. An unknown Chinaman drowned after disrobing and jumping into the Willamette River near Portland. Gale conditions delay Whitehorse to Skagway rail service for days. The rotary bored through 15 feet of snow. A contentious school director election in Clatsop county drew over 400 votes in a driving rain, many by women. Dr Calvin Boswell a pioneer physician of Colfax became insane and leaped from a second story window but landed in willows and escaped serious injury.
The article recounts the first murder indictment in the newly formed county, detailing the 1863–1864 events in Umatilla. It covers the Simpson shooting of Smith in a Nile restaurant, pursuit, trial, and conviction for murder in the second degree, followed by a life sentence and later pardon upon juror influence, marking a historic frontier case in Pendleton area.
Advertisement extols Electric Bitters as a remedy for overwork sleep loss and nervous tension, claiming it cures liver and kidney disorders and dispels rheumatism neuralgia and malaria germs. Sold by Tallman & Co. with money-back guarantee.
The office of architect T F Howard invites bids by 10:00 a.m. March 10 1904 for a two story frame cottage with stone basement for William P Sturgis to be built per plans on file. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. February 26 1904. The rise of electric lighting and power use in New York state is noted with substantial growth.
The Oregon Socialist platform declares labor under capitalism and wage slavery, urging working class unity, ballot power, and a socialist party distinct from other politics. Multnomah county delegates, 17, abstained from nominating candidates to avoid invalidating proceedings under the law for counties of 504000 population.
A long list of hotel arrivals includes guests from Spokane and Portland to San Francisco and New York. Notable names span M. W. Haswell of San Francisco, J. A. Orr of New York, J. J. Quilliam and J. A Stevenson of Portland, with numerous travelers from Walla Walla, Athena, Seattle, and Baker City among others. The roster reflects broad regional connections and mobility.
The Methodist church has paid for a corner lot at Male and Water streets for a new modern church house. Funds will be raised via a campaign before construction begins to avoid debt. A Cyrus Noble whiskey sign on the current church building prompted remonstrances, with partial erasure leaving the sign visible. In addition, a poem titled Dawn in the East appears, urging Asia to resist oppression while an ad for ready-made skirts from Loula Post’s appears.
Thereby notify all taxpayers not exempt from poll taxes that I am collecting the poll tax which must be paid by April 1 M. J. Carnbey City Marshal.
The letter from Walla Walla on September 3, 1903 notes a recommendation of the TRIB treatment described as a cure for liquor and tobacco use. It also calls F. lewis, identified as the world middleweight champion, an exchanger in the context of the endorsement.
The Peoples Warehouse invites Pendleton and vicinity to learn of its vast selection for men women and children. It promises the greatest assortment of ladies dress goods trimmings and linings and offers ribbons laces embroideries neckwear and house furnishing goods.
This reader friendly notice offers men women and children footwear with a price edge. It claims shoppers will always find a lower price or a better article for the same money at The Peoples Warehouse.
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