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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1903
Page
3
A jumbled 19th century style news item reports shipping of an exhibit, a bank matter, a robbery, a waterway incident, a motor collision in New York, a Belfast shipbuilding contract, a New York death and fortune, religious philanthropy notes, and scattered local disturbances. The piece blends multiple events without clear chronology or coherence.
A garbled Oregon news roundup reports arrests for liquor sales to Indians, libel against Grants Pass editor, resignations in Union County Republican committee, a lone highway robbery in Idaho, masked men holding up a prospector, and a Vancouver railway consolidation under Northern Pacific. Also notes a fatal shooting in Butte, kidnapping charges in Spokane, dynamite found near Hird’s Eye Montana, and a failed ransom demand of fifty thousand dollars.
A long hotel arrivals list shows numerous guests and accompanying names across cities including Portland Seattle Spokane San Francisco and Athena. The record names travelers such as S Moker Charles Miller Rehiy Jon Day Dr Mary Parker Walter Smith and many others with affiliations to Portland Seattle Spokane and other hubs.
Mrs W K Haviland of Armonk New York reports saving her daughter from a nearly total attack of whooping cough and bronchitis after other remedies failed, and says her niece with advanced consumption is now well after using Dr King’s New Discovery. Desperate throat and lung diseases yield to this medicine, advertised as infallible for coughs and colds with 60 cent and $1 bottles guaranteed by Tallman Co. Tribune.
Sealed proposals will be received at the office of T. F. Howard architect until five o clock p m October 19 1908 for excavating for a sewer through block E from the sewer in Alta street to the Hotel St George Profiles on exhibition at the office of Co C Berkeley C E in Savings Bank building The right is reserved to reject any and all bids October 16 1908.
A vintage advertisement offers One Hundred Dollar reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the Catarrh Cure. F.J. Cheney is praised for trustworthiness, with sales through Toledo wholesalers and nationwide druggists. The internal remedy claims to act on blood and mucous surfaces, priced at a dollar per bottle, with Toll’s Family Pills endorsed.
Athena Milton area news notes report Mrs. Wil Pinkerton recovering after an appendicitis operation and gradually improving, Miss Janette Mianisee returning home from Portland with health concerns, and George Banister family moving into a new cottage as a new chop mill starts running Tuesday. Also mentioned are Hogs killed by a train and local travel to Wallowa and Spokane.
Churches across Pendleton list sermons and events for Sunday including First Christian, First Presbyterian, Congregational, Methodist Episcopal, First Baptist, and Church of the Redeemer with speakers Mrs Graves and Miss Wade, plus youth groups and Salvation Army meetings. The article also notes a Russian municipal government formed in Niv Chwang, Manchuria.
A fragmented notice references hair growth remedies and Newbro's Herpicide, urging samples from The Herpicide Co. Detroit. It also notes the Eleventh District Republican convention selecting a candidate to succeed the late Winfield Boreing, with W. Geoffrey Hunter pursuing the nomination amid Edwards and Ramaey, plus an endorsement from F. S. Lew.
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