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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1912
Page
2
Our display features women’s waists in silk and lingerie styles, including plain mannish shirts and fancy varieties. Lingerie waists showcase poplum effects and trims of lace and hand embroidery, with numerous dainty, beautiful silhouettes.
Everwear Hosiery Co. offers reduced prices on children, women, and men hose for Friday and Saturday. Boxes include 6 pairs with 6 month guarantees, mercerized and silk options, with special prices ranging from 1.78 to 2.68 per box. Stocks limited. act fast for best value.
MEN S NECKWEAR The famous Waterhouse make pure silk in the best and latest styles at prices no higher than you are asked to pay for unknown take a chance makes elsewhere 35¢ 50¢ 75¢.
Gossard unveils a full line of spring corsets emphasizing a better figure through properly fitted front lacing designs. Claimed as the most hygienic corset, prices range from 3.50 to 10.00.
Train schedule changes effective May eleventh alter departures from Spokane to Walla Walla Pendleton and back with revised times for trains five seven six and other services. Separately a desk detective's pursuit of a supposed deserter ends with a humorous return to Philadelphia after a two day credit remains on his Idaho leave as potatoes greet him aboard.
A Pittsburgh arrest followed a boast by Owen Martin, seaman on the battleship Idaho at League Island, that he deserted from the Navy. He was taken into custody and brought back to his vessel two days later, after a costly prank fueled by a detective.
Rev Bernard Vaughan English Jesuit on a U S tour witnessed his first American baseball game in Detroit watching Detroit and Cleveland of the American league play an eleven inning thriller.
Father Vaughan, now a full fledged baseball enthusiast, condemns national games as producing little good. He praises Mullen and Grege for clever pitching, calling balls manipulated by "tough little things" who aim to mesmerize batters and drive pitches in and out up and down over the plate.
Miss Edith Lee Dewitt surprised friends in Leominster by using a phonograph to announce her own engagement to Vallery H. Tarbell of Boston. The father’s voice delivered the news as the crowd prepared for congratulations.
At the Orpheum Friday program four full reels of top pictures. Captain Jenks Diplomacy shows John Bunny bringing happy reconciliation between father and son. Unwelcome Love features Burns rescuing a foundry office girl and a love triangle with the proprietor’s daughter. The Redemption of Greek Joe Selly portrays mining life in Alleghany with mine explosion thrills. Wanted a Wife tells of Tom’s ad for a wife and a comical kitchen swap.
Vitagraph presents His Father's Son with Phillips as the father and Williams as the son and a mother sweetheart. Dick Livingston's luxury upbringing drives him to defy his father, who finally cuts him off with a 5000 dollar edict to stand on his own. The program includes All in the Family and The Spanish Cavalier with romance and comedy. Edison offers Laughing Gas and The Cavalier tale of love, danger, and rescue amid Inquisition peril.
A lively program from American cinema includes The Mormons with a prophet’s emissary torn between love and duty, The Lie about a Northern soldier and Southern girl, Revenge Is Sweet a briefer Northern comedy, The Strength of the Weak featuring Marion Leonard as nurse, and Obverse and Reverse with light humor. Plus a Sunday Monday Titanic showing with lifeboats and rafts.
The Grand opens tonight with the McMinn Trio led by a nine year old violin prodigy and sisters Beardsley as dancers and singers Photoplays include Thirty Days at Hard Labor and Heroes of the Mutiny A cedar chest moth proof in various sizes and prices marketed for homes by Pendleton Planing Mill and Lumber Yard
Rosalie Castero died April 8 and her will filed for probate in New York surrogates court. Estate valued about $10,000 all in personalty. The will states to her brother Cleveland Forbes Dunderdale, I leave only 1 because he has not been a good brother to me.
In Darby Pennsylvania a veteran tobacconist studies baseball lore to boost trade. He realizes customers seek scores and player comparisons as he learns batting averages and insights from big hitters in both leagues.
A vintage ad hails Knowlton's Dandeline as a cure for dull brittle hair. It claims immediate lift, softness, and shine, plus dandruff and itch relief. With a 25 cent bottle, it pledges new fine hair after weeks, urging use through drug stores and toilet counters.
The speaker recalls buying baseball books and rule volumes, revealing a blend of theory and fan passion. He describes customers rushing in for scores and his admission of not knowing, noting repeated incidents that prompted him to treat baseball as a business rather than pure hobby.
The Chicago Board of Education management committee discussed sex hygiene for over an hour and plans to teach the subject in high schools with physiology. Segregated classes will be used and the Chicago Medical Society will supply physicians to address boys and girls separately. Parents may be offered lectures to guide child morality.
In Washington, Pennsylvania, Henry Jacobs aged 65 and his bride Marie Meek aged 60 escaped a blaze that consumed their new home and wedding finery. Their son John Meek carried them to safety before collapsing from smoke and heat. The couple and witnesses mourn the loss of the house but keep the wedding joy.
In Imboden Arkansas and nearby Doniphan Missouri pearl fishers George Bell Rich Finks Otave Imboden and others found a fine pearl on Black River near Pocahontas and sold it to a Newport pearl buyer for 500 dollars. The Black River has yielded pearls worth thousands in recent years as the pearling season opens.
Chicago Judge John B. Owens ruled that Mrs Adeline Maud McKee a Chicago society woman member of the D A R and the Chicago Women's Club is not insane for hating old ugly and bald headed men Her husband Francis T McKee sought an asylum order but the judge said she has a right to set her own standards of personal appearance and conversation
A court dismisses McKee s writ and rules against the plaintiff on her divorce plea. Mrs McKee states she will pursue divorce proceedings, with the matter emphasizing personal admiration and social judgment rather than public concern.
Sacramento dispatch reports California Attorney General Webb ruled that women have no right to serve on trial juries. He said the woman suffrage amendment covers political rights and duties only. The decision responded to a request from county supervisors seeking to add women to juror panels.
An ordinance introduced by the Mothers' Club in Morgantown WV would ban sexual conduct in public and private spaces under city control, including darkened movie houses. It also calls for film censorship to regulate what screens and audiences may see.
Pendleton readers are urged to help kidney patients with Doan's Kidney Pills as a remedy praised by a local user. Dean's Kidney Pills are advertised as effective, with a testimonial from C. Howard of Pendleton. Available at 60 cents through Wexler Milburn Co. Buffalo as U.S. agents. Remember the name Doan's.
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