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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1909
Page
2
A strong display highlights knit underwear and hosiery with suits priced between 22.50 and 30.00. The event features a wide range of fabrics and sizes, attracting shoppers seeking coordinated wardrobe basics.
Superior Shoes showcases new lines with cloth and suede ladies tops with patent vamp in colors black taupe green brown. Highlights include bronze calf button and patent leather blucher for men with a high toe and heel, all priced from five to seven dollars and a half.
A historic textile ad highlights Velours and Outing Flannels with several weights and widths. It promotes 20e cotton Velours for kimonos sacques and gowns, 27 inch Outing Flannels in plain colors, and Saxony Velour and Normandie Suitings in Persian patterns. Prices range from 10¢ to 29¢ per yard. The ad emphasizes variety, quality, and seasonal appeal for women’s garments.
In striking designs satin damask linens attract shoppers with table sizes from sixty four to seventy inches wide. Special prices ranged from 59 to 98 cents per yard, with heavy bleached Latin damask and superior grades offered at bargains. Local retailer promotes percent markdowns on seven different widths.
An early 20th century ad lists gloves by price. Working gloves with short wrists 50 cents to 1 dollar 50. Gauntlet gloves 1 dollar 25 to 2 dollars 50. Dress gloves vary from 1 dollar to 5 dollars per pair with silk lined fur lined plain kid and mocha options.
An early ad lists high grade imported Latin damask and bleached Latin damask table napkins in various sizes and finishes. Prices range from $1.50 to $5.00 per dozen, with notes on pure linen and Irish origin and special offers.
Offers include 24 comforts with silkaline covering and solid color on one side with a figured opposite side, tacked and quilted at 2.25 regular price. Extra fine comforts in sateen covering with pure white filling priced at 4.50 regular. Numerous other values advertised, ask to see them.
A damaged ad lists wool blankets at various prices and weights, including 10 4 California wool blankets for 3.88 per pair and 114 dark gray mottled blankets at 8.50 regular price. It touts a neat cleanest best appointed grocery department in eastern Oregon and invites customers to ask about other specials.
A Seattle P. I. report recounts Eskimo customs where life and death were controlled by the strong, including strangling the infirm. It notes an inheritance feud at Cape Prince of Wales after Kokituk’s death and Okbaok’s claim, now challenged by Alaska’s civil code and an ex post facto debate.
San Francisco report states Florence Alvin Moore, heiress named Hazel, denies any accountability for the $50,000 embezzled by ex-Adjutant-General Ortla Haermilton of Washington. Moore asserts she is not responsible, claims she did not know Hamilton was married, and says she was unaware of any necklace purchase. She explains Hamilton was a longtime friend of her husband and that the affair began in childhood.
A historical obituary of John J. Clark Jr and his family linked to his father’s infamous New York restaurant empire in the tenderloin. It notes the Parkhurst and Lexow investigations, decline of wealth, and the son and daughter’s tragic deaths tied to the era’s fast life and immoral havens.
In Walla Walla Washington a local option battle grows as State Superintendent Horton of the Anti Saloon League arrives to rally drys and wets. The city splits into districts with a mass meeting at the Masonic or YMCA building launching the campaign led by State Senator D A Cox. Voters register for what could be the heaviest turnout in city history.
Classified notice notes calling cards wedding stationery and commercial printing services offered by East Oregonian. Providers invite orders for personalized design production and delivery to local customers seeking custom printing solutions.
In Reno Nevada a major poker game in a Carson City cardroom runs for hours with notable hands. Two Lyon County players join Tonopah and Carson City players as spectators watch a crowd linger through the night. The pot reached about 3078 dollars with roughly 1200 dollars in money belt. One player incurred a 23700 dollar loss as wealthy Nevadans participate without draws.
A humorous fragment from the Houston Post recounts a speaker asking what the matter is and replying that they have suddenly become deaf in their right ear, joking that it might be a watermelon seed. The exchange preserves a dated newspaper tone and local flavor.
A terse exchange unfolds as Biltimere Amerlein confronts a spouse about money. The dialogue hints at suspicion over cashing money orders and the tenor of ongoing correspondence.
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