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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1908
Page
7
Portland Oct 3 The livestock market offered strong prices yet shippers delivered a poor line of stock prompting packers to complain receipts were not up to standard. High grain feeds and dry weather limited finishing profits though hog and cattle prices remained firm in most categories.
Chicago report to the board of education details severe poverty among about ten thousand children. Many families lack meals and proper clothing, with some children going to school breakfastless. Examples include a family with three days on dry bread and tea and others living on one meal daily.
New York Oct 5 Captain Gwynn R. Mancock of the Coast Artillery Corps is sentenced to reduction of 35 files in lineal rank after using intoxicants to excess and causing admission to the post hospital at Fort Hamilton following the incident.
D W Thomas of Ellers Piano House announces reopening in Pendleton in the former Thornton Music location. Three carloads of grand uprights pianola players to be shown in a demonstration sale. New stock includes brand new grands and uprights from the factory with aggressive pricing. Thomas hails Pendleton as promising and plans substantial immediate growth.
Insurance officials estimate 46 percent of barn fires are caused by lightning, with 10 to 11 percent due to carelessness and overheated flues, the rest from other causes including incendiaries. The 1900 Weather Bureau report records 6,527 lightning strokes causing damage, $3 million in property loss, 583 deaths, and 4,251 injuries. Tall chimneys and barns with moisture, fine porosity bark exposure, make structures more likely targets.
Princess Patricia of Connaught, described as the prettiest girl in the British Royal family, is studying Catholicism with plans to marry Manuel II, Portugal's boy king. The betrothal will be announced at a royal due party this month, with consent from King Edward and approval from the Portuguese people and King Edward.
San Prancisco dated Oct 6 reports City Treasurer John MacDougall is sued for 37572.79 tied to a missing deposit fund from a dispute among United Railroads the city and the state. State Comptroller Nye will sue for the state’s share of 14000. No explanation found for the shortage.
George McClown a San Francisco fire company chauffeur said money sharks hunted him to death after his wife died and he mortgaged ahead to pay illness costs. He and his two children faced ruin as he left a will and swallowed carbolic acid.
A forest fire in the Cascade reserve, 10 miles east of Detroit, Oregon, rages for the third day and is beyond control due to insufficient manpower. Only heavy rain could save millions of feet of timber in the troubled area.
Rooms in St Elmo making a comeback with new management Mrs Allen Rhodes advertises everything new and first class. Rates five hundred ten six and a half cents and one dollar. Located one block from the depot near overtime theater.
A directory fragment listing DRS, HGSSINGTON, KIRKSVILLE graduates and multiple medical and dental offices. It includes VAUGHAN BROS DENTISTS in Judd building with red phone 1411, Dr Lloyd D Idleman in Schmidt building Pendleton with Main 625, and hours from 1 am to 6 pm with Sundays by appointment.
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