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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1912
Page
3
A vibrant display of current season styles offered direct from top American makers. Saturday Special price tag $22.95 highlights a fresh, fashionable assortment rather than an old stock.
In New York, Jordan Lawrence Mott third grandson of the ironworks founder declares liberty worth millions and sails on a British tramp to Sierra Leone. He vows to live freely, write fiction, and seek adventure as his father contends with the will. The tale includes a family dispute and a court moment over a cherished violin.
New York Harlem court hears case of Agnes Conlon accused of assaulting her husband Hugh with a broken violin. Hugh shows a scalp wound and testifies she struck him. magistrate McQuade weighs admonition versus jail. Conlon defends herself claiming his behavior and asks why he does not speak.
London hosts plan for the Prince of Wales as he nears adulthood. King George and Queen Mary will maintain strict oversight over his social invitations and activities even after his eighteenth birthday. Early hostess roles will go to prominent court figures such as the Duchess of Devonshire.
Countess of Shaftesbury and the Duke of Teck with Queen Mary travel to Windsor to inspect a suite of rooms to be placed at the prince’s disposal. The complex includes a dining room, breakfast room, two reception rooms, a bed and dressing room, plus apartments for the prince’s future household. The prince’s business room imitates King Edward’s Buckingham Palace setup, plain in style with a rolltop desk, telephone, and switchboard.
Mosezh Brinkerhoff, 87, claimed to be the oldest railroad man in the United States, died at his Spokane home. He served sixty six years in railroading, including forty in train service, and was pensioned by Northern Pacific. In 1856 on the Panama Railroad in California he saved a bullion train by barricading passengers and, disguised as an Indian, warned the crew after eluding robbers.
Allentown Pennsylvania lecture by Professor H D Bailey argues for a law to protect harmless snakes that help farmers by feeding on rats and mice. He notes king, milk, bat, corn, fox, and indigo snakes as valuable, while some states push to criminalize harming them and others seek more bull snakes to curb rodents.
A Pacific Grocery Elevator Co warehouse in Athena Oregon burned Wednesday night. Ignition around eleven and flames spurted from the roof as contractors prepared to tear the building down. No hydrants within city limits hindered firefighting. A tramp is suspected to have started the blaze. Nearby residents visited relatives during the week, including Mr and Mrs Tompkins in Wattsburg and Mrs Gross and Vera of Helix. C E Zerba visited Waltsburg on Sunday.
In Brooklyn a 12 year old, Louis Agupel, told his father at supper he feared he would not graduate from grammar school this year. He then died at home after ingesting insect poison. His father Charles Faupel and sister Margaret tried to comfort him, but he was found unconscious in bed with the poison bottle beside him. A physician could not save him.
Los Angeles resident J. P. Domecq reports two men 25 and 40, met on the street and persuaded him to draw his Inter national bank funds. In room 20 at 316 West Second Street they robbed him of $377 while the older man restrained him and the younger took the money. He had never seen the suspects before.
Florence Corbin, a Los Angeles laundry worker, found a bundle of soiled linen containing a diamond and turquoise jewelry valued at 950. She notified the owner by checking the bundle name and returned the gems to the manager. The owner, Mrs. Frank W Mack of New York, widow of AP superintendent, will receive a bracelet engraved with their names and the date.
Jamesburg New Jersey report of Robert Cross of Georgia visiting town who failed to hear an approaching train. He walked into the path of a locomotive but leaped away as a cylinder struck a bag of magazines on his back, spun around then fainted near the rails. He was revived at friends' home with only minor bruises.
Mrs. Schwartz testified during the annulment proceedings as Peter J. McGinnis pressed Mowerson about Ut man. Mowerson said he married Hannah E. Straut on May 8, 1896 in Tallman New York and left his wife ten years earlier for Phillipsburg Montana. He denied writing letters claiming his own death. Mrs. Schwartz said she received a letter from his sister in Idaho about his death and then she recognized the man as her husband.
Hackensack New Jersey reports mayor Robert Craig of Moonable borough allegedly struck James Livesey and fled. Mary Livesey, sister of the injured man, filed assault and battery charges as he was jailed awaiting bail. The Craig Livesey feud spans years, tied to school board work and political fights including a prior warrant. Also noted: Ballard's Snow Liniment advertisement and a court ruling about river islands being open for settlement like unoccupied school lands.
Reverend G H Rice of Colville’s First Congregational church proposed a novel fundraising plan for a $10000 stone church. Sunday school families with poultry were to donate all eggs laid from June 1 to September 1, with Rice selling them to fund the church treasury.
Darby Pennsylvania reports George Smith, a noted hot water heater expert, claims a new chemical compound can replace coal as a heat source. The system would heat a home to 70 degrees in winter and stay warm in extreme cold. It uses a wrought iron boiler for faster water heating and relies on water heated by chemical combustion to circulate through pipes.
A historical ad promotes Herbine 5 as a powerful liver stimulant. It claims symptoms like vertigo fatigue and a sick complexion signal a torpid liver and promises relief after a dose or two. Price is 50 cents and sold by A. C. Koep pen & Bros.
A Santa Clara County girl writes to California Secretary of State Frank C. Jordan seeking a license plate number. She requests a number that does not start or end with 18 or 23, that divides by 3, and explains she was born handsome but not lucky, using the number 13 as her unlucky symbol. She cites repeated misfortune linked to the number 13.
Mosquitoes carry malaria germs causing chills fever and weakness and often paving the way for typhoid. Electric Bitters kill the malaria germs, restore appetite, renew strength, and improve stomach liver and kidney function. Wm Fretwell of Lucama NC reports three bottles drove malaria from his system and gave lasting health. Best for stomach liver and kidney problems. 60¢ alt Koeppens.
Ralph Mowem of Syracuse New York stood in Paterson New Jersey court declaring he is alive to counter an annulment suit filed by John G Schwartz secretary treasurer of Schwartz Building Company His wife had believed him dead for a decade and the case hinges on his status in the proceedings.
Supreme Court holds islands in Kaw and Arkansas rivers that are navigable belong to state school lands and open to settlement. Fred Hurst had occupied an island in the Arkansas near Hutchinson against Helen Dane, who claimed it as accretion. District court awarded Dane possession. high court reversed, determining the island is not mainland property. Rehearing allowed to present further legal phases.
Edgar Enoch of De Queen found a three and three quarters carat flawless diamond on the surface of the Stiff Reyburn property in Pike county while visiting the mine with his parents. The gem is valued around 500 dollars, a sizable find though not the largest from the area.
Count August Seymore, claiming relation to Count De Castellane, announces plans for a hotel where guests may commit suicide by their own actions. He envisions a euphemistic Paradise Found, with a clerk asking if the room should be with or without cremation. The plan includes a $175 advance fee before a guest allegedly ends his life.
University of Chicago anthropologist Prof. Frederick Starr plans a Liberian trip to study the descendants of American founders. He notes Liberian etiquette calls for a frock coat and red vest, claiming antebellum slaves helped shape local dress and that Liberians prize correct attire.
A wry line notes that if it were the prodigal daughter returning she would likely bring a son-in-law home to live off the old man, implying family obligations and expectations with humor.
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