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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1908
Page
6
American girls, Who capture the dukes, And lords and earls, We’ve captured a title purely on our merits and you can share in the benefits with us. It’s that of being Pendleton’s leading clothiers. We are in a position to offer you the best in men’s wear at very attractive prices. Our proposal is “A square deal to all.”
The May fires ritual in Callender Perthshire described in Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland reports boys gathering on the moors on May day. They dig a circular trench, bake milk and eggs and oat cake, and split the cake into pieces. One piece is blackened and the fate is to be sacrificed, leap three times through the flames. The practice, now a mere pastime, once implied human sacrifice to ensure a fruitful summer.
A suburban telegraph office case shows a woman asking her distant husband for £5 by telegram. After a failed twelve word attempt she rewrites to plead she is out of food and fuel, offering to pawn the parlor carpet if funds aren’t sent quickly. The clerk notes word count and prompts rapid dispatch.
A well known English MP sits with his granddaughter on his knee. She asks why his hair is white. He jokes that he was in the ark and is not Noah Shem Ham or Japheth, then quips he must be a beast. The exchange, playful and supra religious.
A humorous reminiscence recalls Thackeray’s oyster pricing and Lowell’s pepper tale at Longfellow’s Cambridge circle. A prosy elder overhears, then Lowell narrates how a red pepper drew oysters like a comic scene from the poet’s gatherings.
A loafer picked up a glittering object from the sidewalk, pinned it to his coat, and was killed by a freight train. The train crew searched his pockets, then identified him by the badge on his coat, proving he was a Lady Maccabee.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease. The advertisement claims the remedy works through the blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars for any non cured case, with testimonials available. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Stock taken for pasture with good running water and no barbed wire fences. Any number taken at reasonable prices. Address "E. 5." this office. Manzan Pile Remedy comes ready to use in a collapsible tube with nozzle. One application soothes and heals, reduces inflammation and relieves soreness and itching. Price 60c, sold by A. C. Koeppen & Co.
The New York American describes the medieval superstition of the evil eye and the belief that certain individuals could curse others by a glance. It notes amulets and practices such as laughing spitting and somersaults used to ward off or counteract the power.
The text explains the historical development of the letter I losing its dot and the later introduction of the dot in the fourteenth century to distinguish I from e. It notes the original use of I where J is now and that the J distinction was established by Dutch printers, with the J dotted because its origin J formed from a I with a dot.
The Philadelphia Press quotes the Rev. Mr. Goodman about the value of religion followed by merchant Marnchantz arguing some miss the church trade. A Charleston News and Courier proverb warns the early worm. The public quickly detects sham but forgets it sooner.
Advertising notice from East Oregonian offering printed candidates cards and circulars at a very low price with prompt service and first class work. Includes contact by phone.
A fragmented ad-like note links James Watt and steam power to a mystery before claiming recent research identifies a tiny germ causing dandruff and hair loss. Newbro's Herpleide is advertised as destroying the germ and restoring hair, with product sizes 60 cents and 1.00. Detroit, Mich. Koeppen & Bros.
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