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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1912
Page
7
A sensational clipping touts slipping felt tips for dress shields with bold claims of a remarkable powder named Perspi-No. The ad mocks wearing dress shields and urges readers to stop using them, featuring enthusiastic, emphatic language about the product and personal use.
A liberal hog run at North Portland saw prices fairly steady with $8 bids and most offers from 7.76 to 7.90 as 495 head were sold, up from 287 last Thursday. Cattle receipts reached 254 head with little change in market, following a liberal supply similar to prior weeks.
An eminent skin specialist promotes a dry ethine remedy sold in Pendleton with a money back guarantee promising noticeable freckles reduction from the first night. The ad claims safety for tender skin and urges readers to ask a first class druggist for the double strength ethine. Also reports on North Portland sheep market, lamb and ewe prices, and Willamette and Chicago grain quotes.
Mothers are urged to keep Syrup of Figs on hand as a gentle stomach and bowel cleanser for children. The product, composed of figs senna and aromatics, claims to move waste and bile within hours without nausea or griping, promising a well and happy child.
Harry A. Whitney, home in New Haven after a three month Arctic sealing voyage, recounts the Neptune being trapped by ice for 37 days. He describes April 16 21 and 30 as near-disastrous jams with ice climbing over the vessel and forcing night on deck. He also notes the return with five live baby hood seals for the New York Zoological Park.
Patrolman Flannery interrupted a crowd at Jackson and Clark when a woman lecturing on corsets and lace speeches, after being accused of overindulgence, attracted many men. The scene captured Chicago street life as authorities moved to quell the disturbance.
A compilation of economic figures and notes from the era. It lists expenditures on roads and public works, values of farm products and imports, manufacture, minerals, timber, and fish for 1910 1911. It also mentions lumber production, land values in British Columbia, and climate suitability for farming. Advertisements invite subscriptions to newspapers and services from the East Oregonian office in Pendleton Oregon.
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