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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1918
Page
2
A jumbled OCR fragment shows various cosmetics and personal care products including peroxide cream, Palmolive shampoo, Tooth Powder, Pinead’s Hair Tonic, Mecca toilet water, and Packard’s tar soap, with scattered prices and garbled brand names. The text resembles an old retailer’s ad page with listings and prices.
An old style advertisement promotes Strictly Fresh Eggs per dozen, seed raisins 12 oz pkgs at special prices, potatoes as flour substitute, smoked herring, extra grade coffee Porta, Florida grapefruit per each, claiming unbeatable cleanliness and economy.
It will pay you well to visit every clean up sale in this shopping place. This week we hold clean up sales on men’s shoes boys’ shoes women’s shoes girls’ shoes and a new big lot of belt remnants shirts waists skirts underwear suits and dresses. Hundreds of unadvertised bargains offered. if it’s in the Bar gain Basement it’s sure a bargain.
An article urges the use of mottermilk as a spring dairy by product emphasizing its food value. It notes the potential benefits for nutrition and suggests practical uses for households and farms.
The article argues buttermilk, produced from well ripened cream, contains lactic acid from bacteria that sour milk and aid ripening. It praises buttermilk as an excellent hog feed and a valuable human food, urging universal use as a cheap, healthful product. It cites Wm. F. Drogg of Colorado Agricultural College and notes Germany's stance on Asia.
The notice warns that catarrh can lead to consumption and warns against local treatments. It promotes a bloodstream remedy from S$. and claims direct action at the source, removing germs. It offers medical advice without diary writing to the Medical Director at Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga, for readers to obtain treatment guidance.
A fragmented satirical column mocks war talk and poetry while skewering rural folk and a government memo on “cheap piracy in copyrite-pyrehetite.” It lampoons misread school lessons, farmer woes, and a local print shop’s bold, irreverent editorial voice.
A historical survey notes halos once adorned many figures including rulers and the devil before Christian imagery. It argues halos signaled sacred status, later becoming associated with holy figures as Christian iconography evolved. The piece cites ancient and medieval art practices and hints at shifting meanings over time.
British authorities target hoarders amid a food shortage crisis. Police and prosecutors plan to crack down on individuals who stockpile large quantities of food for private gain. In Beckenham and other areas, cases involve large caches including cans, sugar, and fish. Officials condemn hoarding as disruptive to relief efforts and warn offenders face fines and legal action.
March 6 report from Portland states government forest planting will begin in Oreton and Washington under wartime plans. Five national forests will divide 1552 acres for spring reforestation with stock from Wind River and Siskiyou nurseries, using western white and yellow pines. Sprig planting starts March 19 on Crater National Forest project, entering third year, with operations noting seedling sourcing and terrain challenges.
A Philadelphia reader describes thirty years of nervous prostration and backaches, crediting Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with restoring health and urging others to seek the remedy. The ad touts 40 years of company experience and offers guidance from the Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn, Massachusetts.
An old ad copy touts Cascarats as a cure for head pain biliousness and constipation claiming quick, full relief overnight. It promises improved complexion and regular bowels while noting the medicine works while you sleep.
The excerpt appears as damaged OCR with invented names and scattered phrases, not a readable event or person. It lacks a clear date, place, organization, or outcome to summarize into a news item.
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