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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1914
Page
2
Local sellers in Oregon promote fashionable silks and fabrics matching New York trends. The ad highlights Cascadeux Silk and wool Crepe options such as Crepe de Paris and Charmeuse, 40 inch wide, in all shades, priced at $1.50 per yard.
Dress fabric sale features neat stripes checks dots and small figures in colors for street wear. Includes best quality serge silks Messaline Cheney Fonlard 24 to 28 inches wide with prices from 79 cents to 1.25 dollars.
Twelve Oregon cities including Salem Portland Roseburg Forest Grove La Grande Pendleton Medford Eugene Monmouth Astoria Drain Creswell begin spring fly campaigns. University extension plans to distribute 10 000 bulletins in a week detailing steps and traps. Dr C F Hodge guides eastern Oregon towns as women groups lead efforts locally.
Analysis notes that local media offer divergent excuses for high taxes and suggests someone is guessing. The piece voices skepticism toward the reasons given by the agate line printers and calendar paged magazines, implying a lack of clear answers.
A polemical essay argues that civilization inevitably raises costs through taxes and regulation. It salary-complexes finance officials, police, and standards to ensure safety and civility, from weights and measures to trout size limits, asserting taxation funds the enforcement needed to maintain modern life.
A compact weekly feature covering social clubs fashion home hints and personal notices aimed at readers with varied feminine interests. Includes society updates fashion tips and lifestyles items reflecting local women’s activities and tastes.
Pendleton society recounts a large reception for Dr Charles J Smith Democrat gubernatorial candidate. About two hundred women attended at Moose Hall with Mrs G M Rice introducing him and predicting him as Oregon's next governor amid spirited support and music.
The mothers favorite cough medicine for children is praised as harmless pleasant to take and effective. Chamberlains Cough Remedies claim wide dealer availability and popular acceptance among mothers everywhere.
A two story brick Grass Valley Oregon public school built in 1903 costing 10000 was gutted by fire on March 25. Fixtures valued at 3000 and insurance 6000. Suspected cause defective wiring and poor fire protection due to edge of town location. Walls remain standing providing foundation for repairs.
For constipation, Chamberlain's Tablets are excellent. Easy to take, mild and gentle in effect. Give them a trial. For sale by all dealers.
New York on March 26 reports final preparations for a fete to be held in the last week of March at the Seventy-first Regiment Armory. The event is organized under the auspices of the Woman Suffrage forces and aims to showcase rallying support and fundraising efforts for the suffrage movement.
A Monitor reader praises a bread recipe using sugar, lard, galt, and dry flour with warm milk or water, then kneading into 12 portions and rising in a warm place. If yeast is weak, mold the dough and retry. the method takes about 15 minutes and yields satisfactory bread. Sagging seat fix from Los Angeles Express and hall bedroom pillows described with corduroy covers and embroidered squares.
Queen Elena of Montenegro slipped from the Quirinal with three royal children and bought lace at a store run by Queen Mother Margherita. Rome’s public safety department scrambled the streets, discovering her half an hour later. She was escorted back to the palace by plainclothes agents.
An advertisement touts Hyomel as a direct to the apothecary remedy for catarrh and head colds. It promises fast relief without stomach dosing, using an inhaler to deliver antiseptic air. The maker Tallman & Co. offers a money back guarantee and a complete outfit for one dollar.
Belgian customs officers on the French border refused entry to a fire engine responding to a village blaze at Lesa Ballons, forcing a delay. After warnings and a compromise allowing a hose line to cross the border, firefighters from Wattreles extinguished the fire an hour later, earning the mayor’s thanks.
A feature of the fete will be evolutions of a regiment of Amazons, all members at least six feet tall, with Mr. Herbert Carpenter as colonel and Mrs. David Welsh in charge of recruiting. There will be no blank files in the military organization. The Amazon regiment aims to march next week and to form two to three squads of soldierettes for suffrage parades. Captain Cowdrey of the Eighth Artillery began drill instruction, and Miss Eva Ward, six feet tall, joined as the first recruit.
Washington report shows Los Angeles County California led the nation as the banner fruit producer in 1919 with crop value of 14 720 000 dollars. Lancaster Pennsylvania stood second, followed by McLean Illinois and Whitman Washington in the top four.
A period piece touts Tod Salts as a harmless four ounce daily kidney flush. It claims to cleanse sluggish kidneys, ease back pain, headaches, liver issues, bladder disorders, and acid stomach. The ad pressures early morning use with lemon grape lithia formula.
In Cambridge Mass on March 25 Harvard Union stages another musical treat with “home stuff” in Harvard Square and the Washington Elm. Kent Browley arranged the show with a book by P J Renier and songs from six budding composers featuring Crimson heroes and Wellesley belles.
A promotional notice touts Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a stomach friendly cough and cold remedy. It claims quick relief for coughs, croup, bronchial conditions, and sore throats with no opiates, available in 60¢ and 1.00 sizes in a yellow package.
A vintage ad promises relief from tired burning and swollen feet with a 25 cent box of TIZ. It claims to cure corns bunions and other foot pains, letting wearers walk without pain and tightening shoes feel normal again.
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