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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1917
Page
3
A local retailer touts quality footwear with higher costs but modest price increases. New spring women’s styles include All Grey Buck lace boots at 10.00, All Ivory Kid Boots at 9.50, Dark Mahogany Kid Vamp at 10.00, plus corduroy, middy laces, boudoir caps, tissue ginghams, and mohair for dresses. Shoppers urged to inspect soon as sizes sell out.
Bargain basement specials on Jap Tub Silke fabrics that resist splitting and cracking. Also present are serviceable cats in solid colors at 2.30, Shepherd checks in various sizes, 50 inch wide material for dresses at 1.98, and children's stockings and women's hose at reduced prices.
The Twin Cities up river port report notes exceptionally low Columbia water making landings difficult at Umatilla dock and ferry freight hindered. Pendleton visitors Mrs Roy Pauls and E J Withey were noted, along with others seeking vehicle pickup and medical consultations in Pendleton and Hermiston.
In Chicago, tailor P. H. Crocker advertises that suits or overcoats will be pressed in exchange for five potatoes. Customers tested the offer and found the potatoes sometimes scarce or dear, choosing to pay coin instead. Crocker insists the deal is serious and jokes about expanding barters to eggs and bread.
Philadelphia March. Munition makers in the country have been notified by the British Government that all contracts for the manufacture of shrapnel and other shells must be completed by March 31 and that on that date all contracts in existence for these war materials will cease. The British move, due to submarine blockades and material shortages, aims to end imports as production rises to meet demand. Most contractors can finish in time, with monetary forms to end.
The text recalls various local names and histories including Hetix once named Oxford facing postal objections, figures Herb Thompecon, Dave Nei, Irve La Dow selling crockery, a foundry site now Lincoln school, and artists as landscape painter links. It mentions John Halley Jr associations with Bam Jackson and L J Cox in an Oregonian ownership, and Gibbon naming from General John Gibbon.
Tacoma officials seek federal state and county cooperation to start a food program. Aimed at children, the plan would have boys and girls clubs plant vacant lots and other ground in vegetables with county livestock efforts nearby. Federal and state funds totaling about 1700 dollars would launch the effort with eight leaders to guide gardening and mock farming for youth clubs.
A romance that began at the Battle Creek sanitarium culminated today in the marriage of Be Scott of Madison Indiana and Fannie Peron of Battle Creek. The couple left for a wedding trip to Atlantis city then plan to visit Washington.
A March advertisement touts an ethine double strength freckles remover prescription by a prominent physician. It guarantees refunds if it fails and promises rapid results with small doses, claiming some freckles may vanish entirely after several applications.
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