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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1902
Page
6
Feinst and Beck advocate prudent use of knowledge and skill in plumbing work. Brain and muscle combine for customers' benefit and material is used neither extravagantly nor scantily to achieve perfection. The Plumber on Court Street claims to charge only for good work and no more.
We invite shoppers to visit the Rei man Grocery and Bakery now renamed Cash Grocery at 636 Main Street. The new cash only store promises savings by avoiding credit costs, offering more value to cash patrons than rivals.
Local ad listing building supplies includes screen doors and windows building paper lime cement brick and sand offered for purchase by a supplier seeking customers.
A fragmentary notice indicates newspapers priced at 35 cents per issue with possible reference to delivery or fare details. Names, places, or dates are unreadable in the surviving text.
Prominent livestock men from across Oregon will gather in Portland for a meeting of the Oregon Livestock Association. President Richard Scott of Milwaukie convenes the event to seek favorable rail rates for shipping breeding stock and to plan exhibitor details for the Lewis and Clark fair. Discussions cover premium lists, shipping to eastern shows, and promoting Oregon stock to boost breeding and industrial fair participation.
Mrs E Sailer offers sensible counsel on life changes for women and promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Los Angeles based German Relief Association member attests to historic improvement after using the remedy. The note endorses the product and invites sick readers to write for guidance.
The telegraph note says Utahs average first cost to bring water to land runs about 210 per acre, with land valued at 27 per acre and annual operation costs of 90 cents per acre. It notes irrigation often uses gravity in Oregon, which offers a better investment for settlers, implying Utah is less favorable despite potential full crops each year.
A notice describes a hunt for the headquarters of counterfeiters selling spurious Hogietters Stomach Bitters in large cities. It warns buyers to insist on the genuine bottle with a private neck stamp and notes the product’s cures for nausea headaches heartburn indigestion dyspepsia and malaria. Deputy Recorder James F. Chord reports finding Baker County records from 1862 during county archives work in Baker City.
A Tilden Indiana blacksmith, plagued by ten years of rheumatism, reports a dramatic recovery after two bottles of Electric Bitters. The tonic purifies the blood, regulates kidneys, eases rheumatism and neuralgia, and improves digestion. Only 69 cents at Talimenn Co. drug store. A coroner’s Irish verdict links a merchant’s death to business failures and poor judgment.
A well known east end bishop, famed for helping the poor, consoles a grieving costermonger who has just lost his young son. In a broken, tearful plea the man asks if he could have the boy stuffed, revealing a mix of sorrow and superstition in a capital story of parental affection.
Assessor George W. Jett reports Baker County assessment totals reach 2,871,280 dollars, up 201,145 from 1901. Livestock numbers include 47,040 horses and 202,506 cattle, with hogs down 422 to 3,489. Nontheless, the report notes a general rise in agricultural values.
The U S Geological Survey records show southern Atlantic slope streams now power mills across southern states south of the Potomac. Earlier northern capital doubted their value but improved flow data have spurred widespread water power development and regional prosperity.
Dr Maximillian P. E. Grossman, principal of the Grossman School for Atypical Children, tells the state assembly of mothers the best cure for lying is improved digestion and that glances can calm bad temper. He argues eye defects and nasal troubles cause mental derangement and urges bed making as exercise for atypical children and to favor typewriters over pens.
A Bengal native paper satire lists supposed ancient Indian war rules, claiming they are more civil than modern conduct. The items mock chariot and infantry parity, warnings before blows, and fair fight principles, noting some are sound while others comical. The item appears among varied clipping notes including a St. Louis horse show and Omaha cattle figures.
J J Stubblefield of this city departed Monday for Boise City to join a work crew developing a group of mines owned by Jam. The claims lie ten miles north of Holse in Ruby Gulch. A force of men will uncover the ledge and prepare for extensive improvements next spring.
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