Watermelon’s Saying Sparks Coffee Aftertaste Debate
A playful line questions a fruit’s label with a nod to a bold twenty-five cent coffee aftertaste. If someone had named it Mother’s Pride, readers would recognize the flavor as the decisive hint.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1905
Page
4
A playful line questions a fruit’s label with a nod to a bold twenty-five cent coffee aftertaste. If someone had named it Mother’s Pride, readers would recognize the flavor as the decisive hint.
Mrs A J Owen hosted the Thursday Afternoon club with guests to study basketry. Speakers covered Alaska Cuban Mexican Oriental U S Indian baskets and the history of baskets, with Major Wilkins collection on display. Souvenir programs were given, and refreshments served. Next meetings planned for March 4 and a postponed March 25 musical event.
The catalog lists Hubbard squash, artichokes, celery, lettuce, sweet potatoes, radish, parsley, green onions, asparagus, spinach, cranberries, cabbage, onions, carrots, beets, turnips, cauliflower, horseradish, tomatoes, new potatoes, rhubarb. It adds fruits like grapefruit, bananas, oranges, pineapples, dates, stuffed dates, nuts, honey, dried fish, and cheeses. Also featuring cookies, crackers, imported Swiss cheese, Limburger, Roquefort, and Imperial. Phone Malin 281 for quick grocery service.
A local advertisement promotes next week at Peoples Warehouse with low prices on women's shoes lace curtains table damask ladies garments china glassware and groceries. Shoppers are urged to carefully compare savings and rations and Oregon residents can obtain a copy of the new primary election law pamphlet from the Secretary of State in Salem at no charge.
A sequence of letters from women in the beauty trade praising Herpleide as effective for stopping hair loss and dandruff. Grace Dodge from Portland reports her hair no longer falls and she is free from dandruff after one bottle. Sample requests offered at The Herpicide Co. Detroit with A. C. Koeppen & Bros. as agents.
An old bank advertisement from Commercial National Bank promotes a savings account with four percent interest compounded semi annually. It encourages people who work and save to deposit surplus earnings to gain a jot, promising the booklet for the full story.
Local association appoints a committee to circulate a petition asking Pendleton sportsmen be permitted to fish on the reservation during summer. The group plans to send signatures to Major McKain and then to Washington. A standing $25 reward is offered for information leading to convictions for supplying liquor to Indians or property destruction on the reservation.
W H Rahe reports from McKay Creek that range graves are leveling well and grain stands at from one to eight inches high. Spring work is underway with several plows active on John Crowe's place. Officials say the freeze a month ago caused minimal damage and conditions look favorable.
The taking of evidence in the Pearson Peryene case is finished and the matter is postponed until the return of A D Stillman for final arguments. A night session lasted until 10 o clock with witnesses recalled. Plaintiffs Pearson and Winters Dr H S Garfield and Mrs Louis Winters testified. Fred Neif was later called to testify.
M J Foster, a prominent Stage Gulch wheat raider, came back yesterday after nearly three months away. He left December 7 and has not returned since 1882. He spent most time in Pleasant Hill and St Joe with other brief stops East. He notes a unusually severe Missouri winter with periods below zero. He plans no definite return to the parish.
City official warns that reckless street ball games risk arrests and fines after a woman was injured by a thrown ball. Separately the Stellacoom post office was robbed of about $100 in stamps and cash, with the safe blown open and a nearby store also robbed of a small sum.
George McClure of Sterling and H W Svire of Hutchinson visited Bruneau valley area and praised Hutchinson. salt production in the region includes 76 companies with over 60 carloads daily. A solid rock vein 364 feet thick lies 600 to 700 feet deep, with water pumped into wells to produce salty brine, then boiled into merchantable salt. Some rock is mined and shipped directly.
The Royal Neighbors of America host a unique Easter bonnet social at the Odd Fellows hall on Tuesday evening March 21. Gentlemen will trim hats for the ladies to wear to a upper. A prize for best trimmed hat. A brief musical program. Hats sold at auction. Tables asked to bring an untrimmed hat.
William Krassi and Doc Morgan have opened the Hotel Bickers bar ber shop. It has been thoroughly fitted up in latest style and sanitary condition. First class workmen employed. They will be pleased to have their friends call and see them.
The Columbia River fishing season ends at noon on March 16 with patrols on both banks expected to be unusually effective.
An advertisement promotes Scott's Emulsion as superior nourishment for wasting illnesses. It says the product feeds and strengthens when ordinary food fails and offers a free sample upon request from Scott & Downe, 40g Pearl Street, New York.
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