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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1906
Page
2
Beginning Tuesday morning and ending Saturday night a special lace curtain sale offers marked down prices on 10 pairs of curtains and many others. Curtains regularly 150 to 25 pounds are cleaned out at greatly reduced prices during the event.
A report cites Victoria Falls on the Zambesi as about 404 feet high and 6310 feet wide, nearly twice Niagara. Other notes include San Francisco library earthquake losses, a body found in East River, labor disputes in Indiana, Cace res revolt in San Domingo, and immigration tours in the Northwest.
A short notice advertises multiple land prospects including wheat and timber lands, cattle ranches, and range properties. It cites prices around $5 to $7.09 per acre, with runing water provisions and timber potential. Prospective buyers are urged to call for details.
Postmaster Robbed in River ton La described by a letter noting chronic liver illness and jaundice. The letter credits Electric Bitters with an 11 year cure and praises it as a tonic for viials including pil i man ness neuralgia and stomach liver kidney and bladder derangements. Available at Pendleton Drug stores for 60 cents.
Tungsten, used in armor wire for ships and high pressure cannon, was found on No Name claim near Basin Wyoming. Only two other known finds exist in the Urals and Colorado. The vein runs 15 inches, within 20 feet of a six foot copper ore seam, and tungsten is valued at $1.25 a pound.
An old advertisement extols a medicine as a cure for appendicitis and constipation. It promises quick relief and renewed vigor, claiming guaranteed effectiveness and urging readers to try the product from Tall tron Co and Pendleton Drug.
Old white Horeé branded TV noted on eft hip and D on left shoulder. One bay horse branded JW on left hip. One young mare branded JL on left shoulder. For information or return, P.O. Box 534. Phone Black 3111. Return to Van Horn Brow, Guilding Pendleton, Ore. Echo, Oregon.
Government irrigation towns in Idaho along the Snake River are to be auctioned under a 1908 act. Heyburn Scherrer and Rupert near Lincoln county grew from sand and sagebrush to banks, schools, shops, and churches within a year, with 4000 residents. An auction date will be announced. anyone may bid for the three town sites.
Milton May 23 delegates from Epworth League of Methodist Episcopal Church attend Walla Walla convention. Officers elected for the ensuing year include Maggie Romine, Mattie Williams, Jennie Dykes, Lida Nell as treasurer. Elaborate preparations underway for Umatilla County Development League entertainment next Tuesday featuring a straw berry festival and attractions.
Rev Francis Mavier Blanchet long serving Oregon archdiocese vicar general died suddenly at his residence in Portland on Tuesday at age 70 after bronchial asthma and illness. Born in Canada he was ordained in Quebec and came to Oregon in 1863 serving 44 years in Portland and as nephew to Archbishop Blanchet. He dined after supper with friends before his sudden decline. last rites were performed and he died peacefully at 4 pm with Dr. Smith in attendance.
After the San Francisco quake a sulphur spring near Monroe, Oregon, now pours six to eight inches above the mouth of its pipe, drawing sightseers. The water flow surged post quake, turning a modest fountain into a notable local curiosity.
An article centers on Miss Emma Cole praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as life saving and curative. It laments the dangers of young female adolescence, noting irregularities and displacements that lead to long lasting suffering and the sacrifice of many promising lives.
In a letter from Miss Emma Cole of Tullahoma Tennessee the mother urges mothers to aid daughters during puberty and endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Cole recounts her own fourteen to sixteen year old pains and nervous distress improving after using the remedy and urges others to seek the free advice offered by Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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