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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1912
Page
7
Six loads of hogs arrived in the North Portland market with a nickel added to the price. Top hogs sold around 7.25 while other lots were slightly lower. Cattle prices remained firm with No 1 steers around 6 to 7 dollars, and wholesale grain and flour values shown for local and Willamette Valley markets.
An article promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a safe old fashioned cure for gray or lifeless hair. It claims the preparation balances domestics and sulphur with hair tones to refresh parched hair remove dandruff and restore natural color. Sold by Pendleton Drug Co at fifty cents per bottle.
United States literacy shows a marked decline from 16.7 to 7.7 percent overall between 1800 and 1910, while for children aged ten to fourteen the rate drops from 72 to 4.1 percent over the decade. The report credits school access and education expansion, noting each generation reads and writes better, especially those who attend school.
An old advertisement urges mothers to use Syrup of Figs for upset stomachs and constipation in children. It promotes the product as a gentle, harmless laxative made from figs, senna, and aromatics, with full directions on the package and the warning to refuse substitutes.
Hartman Abstract Co offers reliable abstracts of title for all land in Umatilla county. Also handles city and farm property, general real estate brokerage, investments for non residents, fire life and accident insurance, with references. Located in Pendleton with contacts for the listed officials.
The 1910 census shows 378,120 children aged ten to fourteen unable to read or write, with 144,659 white and 218,355 colored. Illiteracy among white children fell to 1.8 percent and among colored children to 18.9 percent, while overall U S literacy rises toward levels seen in Europe. The decline is widespread, especially in the northern states where illiteracy is nearly eliminated.
Mrs. Meriwether chairs the Missouri committee of a national campaign urged in Missouri Conference circles to restore home duties to the school curriculum. She outlines five steps: include home duties in first lessons, elevate domestic tasks to expert levels, ensure domestic training is thorough, teach domestic science in all grades, and persuade women in commercial life to return to home duties.
A warning about indigestion notes that a weakened foundation of health leads to quick collapse. It promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills to tone the stomach and regulate liver kidneys and bowels, claiming pleasant safe action for 25 cents at Koeppens.
From Porto Rico reports praise Dr Kings New Discovery for coughs colds and lung troubles. Ramon T Marchan of Barceloneta says it cured him and his brother and more than 20 others on his advice. Trial bottle free guaranteed by Koeppens. Price 50 cents to 1 dollar.
Mrs Hunter Meriwether argues in Kansas City that unfitness of educated girls for domestic life drives high divorce rates. A judge questions what counts as a good dinner. A wife replies bologna and light bread and sardines symbolize neglect and a man’s loss of privilege as an American.
Husbands away in labs and Balkans events leave wives at home and in politics clubs learning poker from visiting Americans. About a week ago they opened a poker club. Husbands caught spies, police surrounded the club at night, several women were arrested and stakes confiscated. Women released with warnings in police court.
Paris reports from Italy describe Dr Ciambilan's new chameleon dyes for fabrics. A dress treated with the dye allegedly shifts color hourly from gray in morning light to red at noon, green at dusk, and mauve under artificial light, with specimens eagerly awaited.
Adolphe Lechand, a 55 year old theater patron, sued a toboggan proprietor for injuries. In the Paris court a judge rebuked him for “usherizing” remarks and told him a man of 55 is not in pristine vigor, quelling the jest amid the trial atmosphere.
The plaintiffs counsel lamented that the court would dismiss the idea of age limits and expulsion at 55 as unfit for judges and lawyers. The court appeared moved by the argument. M Lech aud was awarded damages against the toboggan proprietor.
An ad advises treating severe sore lungs with Ballard's Horehound Syrup and internal cough medicine. It promises a free Herrick's Red Pepper porous plaster with each bottle and notes sale by A. C. Koeppen & Bros.
A reflective line notes that with age a girl gains wisdom and reduces the number of pins worn around her waist, signaling a shift in style and self-presentation as she matures.
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