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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1910
Page
7
The piece notes that jewels vary by size brilliancy perfection and rarity yet one jewel defies these factors for value. The passage hints at a paradoxical gem whose worth cannot be judged by typical metrics.
The Portland Union Stockyards report cattle from Merced and Burns arriving for Seattle packers, with 25 loads due tomorrow. Prices show little change with best wethers at 5.75 and cattle mix ranging from 5.75 to 6.60 for steers and related livestock values.
Paris reports President Fallieres and M Mollard face a wardrobe puzzle for an official Mount Blanc trip. To avoid absurdities in evening dress and silk hat, a special costume was designed inspired by King Milward at Marienbad with patterns chosen by the president. A white waistcoat will accompany the suit to give it an official look.
Major Vincent of the United States Engineer Corps announced plans to raise a frontiermen legion modeled on the British Legion. Enlistees would be pledged to fight for England if needed, but never against her, forming a semi military, self supporting corps of colonial veterans and guides ready to serve the British empire worldwide.
London Sir John Macdonnell's report on the law courts shows that 1908 isolation petitions reached 145, up 112 from prior figures, while separation petitions fell to 47 the lowest since 1868. The data indicate growing use of judicial separation, mainly by wives, with most divorce petitions filed by husbands, contrasting England with France and America, and noting a rise in wives' dissolution petitions.
Announcement of the third marriage for Mise Ethel Stanton daughter of Mr and Mrs George S Stanton of Brooklyn. She married William J McCormick formerly of Syracuse now resident in Newark on March 10 after eloping with William Rivers at age sixteen.
Chicago reports a rush of short covering in wheat with prices up 1 1/4 to 3 cents per bushel after strong cash markets. Liverpool futures rise, foreign wheat supplies show a slight decline, and cash quotes in St Louis Minneapolis and Kansas City firm. No strong business reported in local trading. markets remain unsettled with prices near the lower range for several grades.
Mrs. Putnam Yeck of Bigin Oregon endorses Doan's Kidney Pills for lame back and kidney pains. She says the pills banished backache regulated kidney secretions and improved mornings, urging others to use the product. Sold by dealers for 68 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Dean's.
For sale eggs of various sizes and quality from Lester Boyd at 10 East Webb Street. Each dozen priced at 1.50, advertised as the best in town. Local notice format matches a small classified sale item.
Mrs. Tom Hood, wife of painter Tom Hood, living in Bois de Boulogne, is ill after a Swiss romance entangling two officers from Austrian and Swiss armies. They quarreled over her, led to a duel threat, and she confronted them, warning both to behave and go home. Mood reportedly tires of military suitors.
Immigrant tale follows Astoona Greek woman once in a sultan’s harem who escaped by rope from a third story window. Her journey from Constantinople to St Petersburg and then to Toledo Ohio is mixed with peril and resilience as she seeks a new life in America.
William E. Johnson, chief special officer in the government Indian service, orders saloons in Mahnomen county and parts of Beltrami Cass Clay Crow Wing Otter Tail and Wadena counties to close by May 10. About seventy towns are affected in a crackdown tied to enforcing old Indian treaties and preventing the sale of liquor to Indians. The measure is described as the most drastic action issued so far.
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