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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1903
Page
3
A fragment from a historic page contrasts the quality of canned goods sold by Different Store with competitors. It notes some grocers sell firsts at higher prices while buying seconds, while Different Store asserts strict personal examination and insists on quality in all cans.
State Engineer D W Ross reports preliminary irrigation surveys under a new federal act. In the Bolae drainage 290 miles of lines mapped twelve basins were examined. only three viable as storage sites. Proposed Boise basin dams range from 100 to 170 feet high with plans for about 237 thousand acre feet total capacity.
Portland sees a grand stage version of Ben Hur by William Young, touring from New York to Chicago. The production retains Wallace's tale while intensifying its solemnity with Kelley’s music. Scenic art by Kiaw and Erlanger features vast sets like The Star of Bethlehem and The Chariot Race. Electric-powered chariot effects and hidden machinery create a spectacular, costly spectacle.
A multitude of painted people move in the opposite direction from the horses to heighten illusion, making the audience feel they are along with the animals. The sequence is both spectacular and a dramatic success for the production.
Henry Gregg reports Grant county sheep fed by Lacey and Silver in Minneapolis area are gaining weight as feed costs rise. Prices for hay and wheat are given, with lambs averaging 70 pounds at shipment and expected to reach 100 pounds at market, worth about 6 to 5.50 per head. George Oliver and Frank Lace oversee the stock. Gregg enjoyed the trip.
ClubWomen of Texas Fort Worth hosts delegates from Austin Galveston Dallas Marshall Gainesville Houston and others as reports and discussions on women’s activities fill three days of the convention. Fort Worth hosts provide hospitality to visitors with home entertainments in their city. The State of Cuba Havana Nov. 25. The Newlands resolution inviting Cuba to become a U S state provokes mixed reactions among Cubans and some Spaniards and others of noble birth.
An advertisement warns that coughing can signal serious lung disease and consumption and promotes Acker's English Remedy for Coughs, Colds and Consumption as the best modern treatment. It guarantees satisfaction or money back, with sales through F W Schmidt & Co.
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