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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1906
Page
2
Beginning Tuesday morning and ending Saturday night a SPECIAL LACE CURTAIN SALE offers lowered prices on all lace curtains. Ten pairs price cut to 9 36 pairs 52 inch wide curtains 19 18 pairs extra wide five patterns 1.59 20 pairs face curtains three and a half yards long 2.19 about 20 pairs assorted kinds priced from 1.50 to 5.00, all aggressively reduced.
Reports detail Senator Heyburn in Washington facing a severe relapse with unlikely recovery. A general strike by Chicago union teams looms unless given one day of rest in seven, while Governor Deneen opens a new Illinois primary law as a compromise. In Anadarko Oklahoma a deadly duel injures Deputy Bourland and Fred Hudson, both moving toward death.
A real estate notice offers 1900 acres with running water timber and wild hay, plus abundant outside range on an excellent cattle ranch priced at 6 dollars per acre. Another 6000 acres of mostly profitable wheat land is available at 7 dollars per acre. Call on request.
Classified-style entry shows E T Wade and Son Co contact box with price 111 dollars and a phone listing for Pendleton Oregon. Details are sparse but indicates a business listing or advertisement.
A long guest roster lists arrivals at a hotel including travelers from Portland Colfax Spokane New York Seattle Walla Walla San Francisco Chicago and Denver among others with numerous individuals and couples such as A E McKennett James N Henn W A Welles Mrs A Gilbert F A Mitchell C Willams J W Connolly and more arriving from various cities and states.
An old advertisement warns that kidney complaints kill more people than any other disease. It claims the disease goes undetected until it weakens the body, and touts Foley's Kidney Cure as a preventive measure available at HKoap pen drug store.
Oregon Brewers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association runs a broad campaign opposing equal suffrage and supporting the local option amendment. The group urges retailers to recruit 60,000 votes on election day, distributing 26 ballot cards and urging each retailer to bring in votes from employees and business networks in a bid to defeat suffrage and preserve local option laws.
The Walla Walla Land Office informs settlers in Kilokitat and Yakima counties along the North Bank Railroad that they may either retain their current lands under the Northern Pacific grant or relinquish them to take other lands under new Interior Department instructions. The ruling, reacting to overlapping grants and court decisions, directs entrymen to file a formal election within a set period or have their holdings relinquished to the railroad company.
G W Fouts of River ton Louisiana writes of a near-fatal robbery after twenty years of a chronic liver complaint. He credits Electric Bitters with his cure and ongoing health for eleven years. The tonic is sold at Tallman & Co. and Pendleton Drug stores for 50 cents. Also notes Henry A Dalrymple of Montpelter Bear Lake County as the sole Democratic sheriff in Tylahe.
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