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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1912
Page
2
A local retailer announces a full stock of misses, children's, and boys shoes. Highlights include genuine rock oak soles, Gorly ear welts, broad high toes and short vamps with button or lace options. Prices range from $1.50 to $4.00, with exclusive styles and direct import information from Chas. Danby of Regent St., London.
Advertises PLW Special Blend coffee and bargains on Van Camp's Pork and Beans two for 25 cents. Features Fancy large oysters clams Columbia River salmon and gunpowder tea. Includes various 25 cent to 50 cent prices and a 1.40 dollar offer on chili con carne.
A mixed item recounts a fifty-cent Diapepsin stomach remedy promising quick relief, plus a long discussion of immigrant and regional militia-age demographics across U S states in 1910 to 1919, noting shifts westward and high percentages in Wyoming Nevada Montana Washington and California, with lower shares in North Carolina. Also mentions exhibitors keeping original displays for the entire week.
Census data shows 20,473,684 males of militia age in 1910 with 16,182,702 in 1900. The 1910 figures exceed 1900 by 4,290,982 as immigration influenced the rise. Males of militia age grew 26.5 percent from 1900 to 1910, forming a larger share of the population.
Spokane readers learn the dairy department at the Spokane Interstate Fair has installed a monster refrigerator system. It will preserve butter and other dairy products so they remain marketable throughout the fair week. Exhibitors can bring perishable goods with confidence in continued quality. The system promises reliable storage from opening to closing of the event.
New York editor Carlton T Garretson dies from injuries after being thrown from a horse in May. He edited Judge and previously served on the New York Evening Globe staff and Leslie's Weekly, and published small Pacific coast papers.
Chicago Evanston officials lament a clever rat infestation on the north shore beaches. Poison baits fail as the urbane rats avoid meals, prompting a hunt for a professional rat herder from Chicago. The health board questions need for a cultured vermin handler.
Mathias Hecker of Orange with a $60,000 estate faced arraignment before Police Justice Abbott on charges of neglecting his wife Mrs Becker and two children. The family, staying as charity guests of the Orange Fresh Air Society, showed evidence of long neglect. Hecker claimed $27,000 in the German Savings Bank, Newark, but remained jailed due to failure to post bail.
Governor William C. McDonald declares New Mexico will cast its electoral vote for Woodrow Wilson in the upcoming election. He describes Wilson as a clean independent progressive, capable of drawing progressive Republicans, and believes the state will reliably support the Democratic ticket.
An unusually interesting four reel program at the Orpheum features The Narrow Road and The Awakening of Jones from Biograph and Vita graph. The Barefoot Boy from Kalem and Easter Celebration at Jerusalem, Kalem, alongside The Martyrs by Co G PC, offering varied tales of crime, marriage, and religious conversion with notable performers.
A film program featuring The Wreck of the Vega by Selig a dramatic educational piece shows divers clammers and the ore boat being blown to atoms. Also The Right Way and the Wrong Way with a comedy offering good advice. Edison James Whitcomb Riley poem When She Was About Sixteen by Essanay Western tale In God's Care Pathe and a child-focused sequence of white settlers chased by redskins returns with human interest and suspense.
A light military life drama unfolds as Flo, wife of Captain Mills, flirts with Lieut Fuller while Mills is away. Flo invites the other woman to visit, drafts a note for Fuller, and nibbles at reconciliation. Mills returns home as events unfold.
A vintage health note extols Syrup of Figs as a mild cleansing tonic for the liver and bowels. It claims relief from indigestion and dullness, urging readers to use the genuine product "Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna" by the California Fig Syrup Company and to avoid substitutes.
A fragmented promotional reel of Western and comedy films featuring Jane plot turns, a killer motive, and mistaken loyalties. Includes The Last Resource and Baby Sherlock with Powers kiddles, Toto the comedian, and Toto’s Inheritance among upcoming shows.
The article notes loss of vitality marked by poor appetite and weakening strength. It asserts Wood's Sarsaparitia as the premier vitalizer, acting on all organs and functions to rebuild the body.
Four persons were burned to death when a fire destroyed the hotel at Bellevue Idaho early yesterday. One victim was Robert L. Hodgins, brother of United States Marshal W. L. Hodgins of this city. The other victims were not identified. The blaze spread to adjacent buildings, wiping out an entire block and causing heavy financial losses.
An old advertisement touts HER BRINE as a powerful liver correctant to purify the body and revive vitality. It claims to remove yellow complexion pimples and facial blemishes and offers the product for 60 cents through A. C Koeppen & Bros.
London reports Lily Langtry the Jersey Lily will embark on a new farewell tour of America, starting September 10. At age 60 she plans a 20 week vaudeville engagement featuring gowns and a sketch about the woman suffrage question.
What We Never Forget according to science are early home life remedies like Bucklen's Arnica Salve used by mothers to treat burns boils scalds sores eruptions cuts sprains and bruises Forty years of cures prove its merit Unrivaled for piles corns or cold sores Available for 25 cents at Roeppens.
In Hoquiam Washington on September 4 Tony Prapis shot and killed Oscar Fremke head sawyer at the Western Cooperage plant in Aberdeen. Fremke died within a half hour. Prapis pursued by J Hemphill fired twice. a failed third shot allowed Hemphill to seize him. Prapis, 22, Fremke, 26 and unmarried, had quarreled the night before and Prapis obtained a gun before returning to work.
Chicago dispatch reports Mrs Rae Copley Baum, a San Diego mayoral candidate, pledging to tax bachelors and run the city like a household. She frames government as a household and vows to root out graft, asserting she will win decisively once back on the coast. Her sister, Mrs Raum, asserts confidence in election prospects.
A public declaration condemns bachelorhood as selfish and urges men to marry and raise a family. It claims social duty requires joining with a partner, and warns that without a $100 annual assessment, men will abandon single blessedness.
North Yakima Wash Sept 4 Tramping with their 16 month old baby in a makeshift pram Mr and Mrs Frank Simpson of Coeur d Alene Idaho ended a 12 day trek from Bellingham across the Cascade mountains through Spokane to reach work in Henry H Schott s hopyard at Selih to earn money for the next leg to Coeur d Alene They carried supplies in an old baby carriage wedged between bundles and began with a capital of 1 90
The United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the Alabama State Geological Survey announces two bulletins listing exact elevations above sea level for numerous Alabama points. Bulletin 517 covers about 425 elevations from USGS and Coast and Geodetic Survey with 50 secondary elevations. Bulletin 441 adds around as many more points. Data include locations across Alabama and nearby states, serving as a useful dictionary of altitudes for surveyors and engineers. Copies are available free from the Director, US Geological Survey, Washington.
Mtawa Ont reports three month period April to June with 176,341 immigrants arriving in Canada. Ocean port arrivals totaled 121,998 and 434,043 from the United States. This marks a 15 percent rise from the prior year. June arrivals reached 45,888.
Notice offers a reward for any case of catarrh not cured by Molla Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo profiled as trustworthy. A testimonial from Walding Kinan Marvin Wholesale Druggists Toledo endorses the cure. Tinti's Catarrhore is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials sent free. price 75 cents per bottle.
Oregon Agricultural College announces the fall term opens September 20 with courses across agriculture agronomy animal husbandry dairy science bacteriology botany plant pathology poultry horticulture entomology veterinary science engineering domestic science arts commerce forestry pharmacy zoology chemistry physics mathematics English languages literature public speaking modern languages history architecture education physical education military science and music. Catalogue and illustrated literature mailed free from Registrar Corvallis Oregon.
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