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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1919
Page
6
Pendleton market prices show small changes in grain Quotations with corn oats and barley steady. Butter bacon country ham and eggs are priced to producers with butter at 65 cents per pound butter fat 1.10 a roll and new potatoes at a pound. Mill feed bids stand at 37 a ton and hay at 30 baled f o b for the west end of the county. No local manager has yet been obtained.
Umatilla Flour & Grain Co. completed a lease of the Thomas Ross warehouse at Echo for five years with an option to buy. The company will operate wholesale and retail trade from the site.
An old newspaper tone touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier to strengthen nerves restore appetite and a combination with Howl's Pills for liver and bowel regulation. Claims target lingering grip influenza fevers and general weakness with a tonic and cathartic remedy.
Petaluma high school graduate Misa Daisy George was the first California girl to pursue a professional piloting career. Her instructor, Stoffers of Turlock, flew her in a Curtis JN4D during Remembrance Day, inspiring her to seek aviation training and an aircraft of her own. She plans to begin lessons soon with Stoffers as instructor.
Tacoma, Oct 16. An explosion of unknown origin wrecked the Tacoma gas plant supplying Tacoma and Olympia. Engineer Virgil Stearns suffered severe burns and was taken to a hospital. Gas service was cut off for several hours.
A Senate investigating committee toured Duquesne steelworker neighborhoods unannounced. They spoke with strikers and nonunion workers and families to learn living and working conditions. One Austrian, Steve Bohanneck, blamed high costs. Andy Eyecko described his work as like “driving a mule.”
A fragmentary dialogue shows a conversation about recalling Tecumseh. One speaker asks Uncle Nod if he remembers seeing Tecumseh. he answers no, but recalls his father and grandfather also remembering seeing him, preserving a family chain of memory about the historic figure.
A fragmented quotation notes money cannot buy many things and jokes about adding to the Hat. The speaker, described as a thirsty gentleman, appears to comment on value and accumulation in a compact, anecdotal tone.
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