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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1912
Page
3
Sales list shows low prices on clothing and fabrics including men and women’s shoes shirts curtains yarns and pillow slips. Items feature 25¢ to $7.00 price points with several clearances and weekend-only offers.
Fourteen year old W. W. C. Griffith editor and publisher of the Young American Golfer magazine is in Chicago after being sued. He says he has not challenged the president to a game and calls any such challenge unethical. He notes he might meet the president only if invited.
The passage notes an intended match with Mr Taft, describing his recent runner-up finish at the junior national golf tournament at Pinehurst last month. It adds he was narrowly beaten for first honors and that, in Miami, he played a game with William Rockefeller Jr.
The war department issued a statement through March 2 detailing Italian losses in the Tyro-Italian conflict. It lists 37 officers and 499 men killed, plus 1 officer and 323 men missing. officials believe the missing are dead, though no record confirms it.
Dr Joseph H Thompson of Hyattsville Maryland reports using rattlesnake venom tablets from South America to cure tuberculosis in himself by injections, claiming complete eradication of bacilli. The report to the Maryland State Board of Health notes the purported success and calls for further investigation.
A New York City birth records tabulation by the Bureau of Vital Statistics shows a large percentage of babies born in the city have foreign mothers. The data highlights the impact of immigrant families on local birth statistics and mentions the predominance of foreign-born mothers among newborns.
The present birth rate stands at about 11 000 per month with roughly 9 000 babies born to foreign mothers and 2 400 to American mothers.
In a Washington Star excerpt, Mr. Meekton muses that Henrietta believes he suits a plug hat and a Prince Albert coat, joking that he must enter statesmanship. The banter frames a playful reflection on public life and appearance.
A classroom exchange frames capital punishment as a child’s tale of misbehavior and a mother locking a boy in a dark closet with cake. The humorous vignette appears in the Chicago News.
The article explains mushroom toxins such as muscarine and amanitin, contrasting their chemical nature with other plant poisons like morphine and nicotine. It cites a case of Deming household poisoning from a Tweecybe infida species and outlines experiments by Gies’s team extracting poisons from fungi and testing them on frogs and blood. Atropine counters muscarin but no antidote exists for Amanita phalloides blood poison, with both poisons resisting heat.
The Orpheum presents four fall films Sunday. The Outlaw and the Baby follows a woodman’s wife and a missing child. The Old Florist centers on a flower seller who helps a girl and boy. The Warrant features Nell and Jim Rogers in a tense love and crime arc. Things are Seldom What They Seem follows vaudeville star Jimmie Sharp and a romance enmeshed with deception.
The program showcases Vitagraph’s For the Honor of the Family about a soldier protecting his sister, the Selig drama The Secret Wedding, American Pathé Bill’s Bills, Lebin’s Her Two Sons, and a musical lineup featuring Trovatore Waltz, Torreador Song, Faust Waltz, Stephanie Gavotte, and Soldiers’ Chorus.
Sensational Western feature at Cosy Friday and Saturday presents Solax star Otto Kline and Art Borden in a daring riding showcase. A clever horse nips a note from a lifelike rescue, then speeds into danger to snatch an item from the ground. Cowboys and outlaws clash in a whipcrack finale.
A local cinema listing reviews The Locket an American Western melodrama about a gambler saved by a former sweetheart’s son. Also screened The Passing Thanhouser and Foolshead's Christmas with Mr and Mrs John K. Drew. Dance numbers by Bunn and Mitchell. Reduced admission for missing one act. Wanted performers for wild west show Cooper Bros Salem Oregon.
In Indianapolis Margaret Mc Farland an elderly woman arraigned for drunkenness was granted freedom when she attempted to tip Judge Collins. She vanished into the corridor briefly then returned smiling and slipped a dollar toward the bench before the judge smiled.
An old note touts a one day cure for colds with laxative bromide quinine tablets. It claims druggists can earn money if it fails and features E W Grove's signature on each box. The fragment mirrors 19th century advertising language and emphasizes a fast result.
An old remedy using sage and sulphur is promoted to darken gray hair and restore natural color. The Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy, sold by Pendleton Drug Co, claims to curb dandruff halt hair loss and promote growth. Available at fifty cents a bottle with use advised every two to three days for best results.
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