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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1907
Page
7
European plan offers first class comfort with steam heat en suite rooms and baths. Newly designed sample room and hotel office connections include telephone fire alarms and hot and cold running water. Rooms priced at 1.00 and 1.50 dollars.
A seller touts wine and liquors as reputable brands. Medical men recommend these goods to convalescents and sick patients, suggesting trust in their quality. The offer encourages trying a single bottle for family use with the expectation of later purchases.
The Hotel Portland in Portland Oregon advertises American plan rooms from $2 per day and up. It targets tourists and travelers with special rates for families and single men. The hotel features a modern Turkish bath and offers guided room showings with prices, under manager H C Bowers.
Chicago prepares for a national conference called by the National Civic Federation to tackle the trust problem. More than 500 delegates from farmers, college presidents, bankers, labor leaders, and clergy will meet next week, with leaders such as Carnegie, Gompers, Elliot, Butler, Crane and Judson among them.
Farmers in the Walla Walla valley favor club wheat due to higher yield and price differences, despite mills preferring bluestem for flour strength. Analyses by Washington State College chemist R W Thatcher show bluestem with about 4 1 2 percent more protein than club, affecting flour quality and potential pricing.
The W E B Harris ranch title passes to C B Towers of Miles City and George W Burt of Terry. The 108000 acre acquisition runs along Pumpkin creek for 60 miles, from east of Miles City, totaling about half a million dollars including livestock. The land will be subdivided for sale in small tracts.
An old advertisement promises relief from croup colds and whooping cough for mothers and children. It touts Bees Laxative Cough Syrup as tasty and effective, clearing the head by working through the bowels and guarantees its sale by A. C. Koeppens.
James Buchanan was born in a small Allegheny mountains town where his father felled logs and built their house in a wilderness setting.
Washington events loom as presidents and leaders travel. Roosevelt returns from the south. Root from Mexico. Fairbanks to speak in the south. Bryan begins a New York state tour. Balloon race for the James Gordon Bennett cup starts from St. Louis. Harriman faces the Interstate Commerce Commission in New York. Chicago hosts a trust prob lem conference. Michigan to begin a new constitution frame. Automobile club exhibition opens in New York. Universalist meeting in Philadelphia. Mohonk conference. Upper Mississippi improvements. National Hardware show in Atlantic City. Press Clubs meet in Birmingham.
In Annapolis Maryland Peggy Stewart Day was celebrated with the unveiling of a tablet on the liberty popular tree at St John s College. The tablet marks the 1652 treaty signing between colonists and the Susquehannock. The event was under Peggy Stewart Chapter DAR with Governor Warfield, St John s College President Fell, and Mrs Donald McLean DAR president general in attendance.
An 1800s advertisement claims Pinesalve Carbolized acts as a poultice drawing out inflammation and poison. It is described as antiseptic and offers immediate relief for cuts burns eczema and cracked hands. Sold by A C Koeppens Broa.
William J. Bryan will conduct a stumping tour of New York State next week under the New York Progressive Democratic league. The opening meeting will be Monday night at Cooper Union, with interest focused on a major political announcement expected to be made then or at a later date.
Advertisement claims a dose of minules relieves backache for pine forest residents, offering 30 days treatment for $1 and money back if not satisfied. Sold by A. C. Koeppens Bros.
The Yorktown surrender anniversary was observed in Norfolk at the Jamestown exposition with historical exercises under the Thomas Jefferson Memorial association and descendants of the Declaration of Independence signers.
On Riverside Drive at 106th Street a 12 foot bronze equestrian statue of General Franz Sigel by Karl Bitter was unveiled in a grand pageant with hundreds of Grand Army Veterans and German society members. Governor Hughes delivered the day’s oration alongside General Stewart L. Woodford and Herman Ridder, with a German address by Ridder.
Delegates gather in Evansville for the Indiana State conference of Charities and Corrections with a reception and address by Rev. Francis H. Gavish. Governor Hanly will speak at a mass meeting after church pulpits. Topics include juvenile charities, tuberculosis, county and township relief, truancy and delinquency, and corrections work. Rings Dyspepsia Tablets offer a free two day trial through A. C. Koeppens Bros.
James K. Polk spent his early years helping to clear land and work on a new farm in North Carolina. He later served as a clerk in a country store, a stepping stone in his path to leadership.
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