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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1908
Page
2
Kidney trouble ad promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a cure for lame back uric acid and bladder issues. Claims hospital and private success and offers a free sample bottle and an informational book by mail from Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York. Also notes regular bottles sold by druggists.
A Glenn Guernsey piece notes the phrase Let Us Alone spreads through New York as a popular sentiment across Wall Street saloons gamblers bookmakers and socialists. It signals a rising national campaign thread and reflects urban reaction to reform and free speech debates.
Letter to the editor by E Ward labels Rev J R Knodell of Portland and other Anti-Saloon League leaders as hiding a drive for statewide prohibition behind local option. He argues local option is a step toward 1910 prohibition, cites census data and tax concerns, and warns of mass unemployment and vacant buildings if Oregon adopts prohibition.
A Seattle couple begins a summer honeymoon voyage aboard a 50 foot gasoline schooner Trader to cruise among Arctic icebergs. Mrs Bertha Landers Allen joins Captain Alexander Allen, a pioneer trader, as they face Eskimo and Indian encounters and isolation for months, planning to return next fall and spend winter with her family in Wisconsin.
George Philbrook reelected captain of Whitman college track at Walla Walla May 21. He holds the coast record in the discus and several college marks, leading point-winner in the Northwest. The squad’s season closed with Coach Murphy’s retirement and a student gift of a watch fob. Whitman defeated Washington State College Idaho and Washington. only Oregon beat them.
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