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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1911
Page
2
A versatile selection of curtain materials in numerous colors is offered at drastically reduced prices to clear stock. Regularly sold from 25 to 65 cents per yard, the sale price is 16 cents per yard.
James J. Hill advances a plan for a Gulf to Pacific rail corridor, connecting Galveston to Denver via the Colorado and southern lines, then Denver to Billings through Cheyenne and other routes. Construction stalled after a pause but now resumes amid talk of a major western railroad war.
Houston reports a massive cotton harvest in the southern United States with early estimates ranging from 14 000 000 to 16 000 000 bales. Experts contend the final figures will determine if this year surpasses all previous crops.
This ad promotes HYOMEL inhalant with steam inhalation to ease nasal and chest congestion. It claims immediate soothing relief and cautions readers to buy 60 cents per bottle with extra bottles from Tallman & Co.
The output is described as among the largest in crop history with six belne picked by moonlight. Fall southern moonlight turns field work into daylight and night picking is common. Pickers are paid by piece, and capable workers toil from dawn to night. Ginneries run round the clock but much cotton remains unhandled, stored in the seed. Texan crop labor and financing details indicate about 4,000,000 bales and an estimated $225,000,000 required to finance.
Robert Collier and instructor Oliver Simmons piloted the aeroplane Collier’s Laredo near John D. Rockefeller’s New Jersey estate. Engine failure caused a crash eight feet above ground into a corn shock, injuring the pilots but not seriously. One of Rockefeller’s thoroughbreds panicked, plunged, and died. The pair had briefly landed on the golf links prior to the wreck.
The body of William Renock, a fisherman from Bay City Michigan, was recovered near Garibaldi yesterday by hunters. He had been missing for ten days after a spree and death was ruled accidental. a coroner’s inquest was deemed unnecessary. Renock was about 40 years old.
A brief ad warns that slate and gravel cannot be burned and promotes Rock Springs coal as clean burning and efficient. It urges contacting Dutch Henry at Main 174 for chimney cleaner results and coal purchase details.
Mrs Jackson Silbanugh of Seattle lectured Stanfield school children then mothers on temperance, followed by a mass meeting that organized a local W C T U branch with officers named G I Dunning president J F Faucett vice president Geo Anderson secretary and W C Spencer treasurer.
A well dressed Chicago woman, identity unknown, began at 3 am a violent scream from the elevated platform at North Fifth Avenue and East Randall Street. Passersby and hotel guests stared as a companion urged the scene’s end, police intervened, and the pair fled toward Oak Park.
An advertisement promotes HEMROID inward treatment for piles sold as HEE ROMD sugar coated tablets. It claims permanent cure when salves fail, with a 24 day regimen offered by Pendleton Drug Co and druggists. Dr. Leonhard of Buffalo, NY is listed with a booklet request.
Astoria resident Ar vold aged 65, once a leading merchant prince who owned the largest store and wielded influence, is sentenced to one to ten years for theft of a Witch from Mrs Hannah Franklin’s home. Twenty years earlier he sought mercantile power, disappeared, then returned a wreck with no explanation for the vanished fortune.
The ad extols Bucklen's Arnica Salve as unrivaled for cuts burns bruises sores ulcers eczema and many others. It claims relief for sore eyes cold sores chapped hands sprains and piles and promotes a 25 cent price at Koeppens.
At the Orpheum and Vitagraph shows on Tuesday audiences may see One Flag at Last a Civil War romance ending in peace with two weddings under one flag plus A Shot from the Brush a tale of gratitude and loss. Also Under the Palms of Tunis Africa and The Express Envelope a suspenseful rail tale with Hazel defending a payroll. The Life Saver adds Maine coast drama with Life Saving Corps scenes.
On Tuesday the cinema offers The Missing WHAIL from Vitagraph plus multiple featurettes. The program highlights sensational scenes from Maine shipwrecks, bullfights, czar reviews, and Constantinople gifts, with comedies Crazy Depe and Circque in Australia ensuring crowd-pleasing variety.
Two western heart stories, a comedy and a drama, follow two homely boys living with a thief in a hovel. When a lady drops a purse, the boys return it, one hides to escape danger, is fed by a kind woman, the thief is captured, and the boys find a real home. In The Chorus Thanhouser Kid features a young widow and her child after care.
The ad proclaims Wall's Catarrh Cure as the sole positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease treated internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. The firm offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure, invites testimonials, and lists F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo as makers, with Hall's Family Pills recommended for constipation.
A collage of brief scenes from western theater and a crumpled ad note. A vanished horse plot, mistaken rings, a returning daughter, and a fake diamond in Mr. Franklin’s tale unfold with lingering questions of identity and happiness. Also an alfalfa and fruit land security notice seeks a 3 to 6 year loan from H B Bush of Nyssa Oregon.
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