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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1909
Page
6
Winchester Indiana woman recounts how Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her heavy symptoms and urges other women to seek its help. The ad claims hundreds of letters praising the remedy and offers confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
London reports a Jewish World article arguing ages of patriarchs were measured by different year lengths. It recalculates Adam and Methuselah as about 75 to 78 years when set to a year-month system, Noah and David within a few years, and Jacob at 73 under a shortened year. The piece notes Rosh Hashana alignment and long cycles.
An advertisement for Mi-o-na a stomach remedy promising quick relief and permanent cure for indigestion belching and stomach distress. It claims a 60 cent box with money back guarantee and cites a customer testimonial from J F Maskey Pendleton. Sold by Tallinn & Co Pendleton with free sample offer.
Baker City inmates at the county jail plan a behind bars concert to raise tobacco funds for the Kangaroo fund. Spectators won’t see stage lights as performers sing from within the jail, with Jailor George Herbert supervising to ensure decorum. Ragtime Kelly, veteran vaudeville performer, is cited as the probable originator of the idea.
Mrs. George Clark, wife of a cattleman, allegedly used a rawhide whip on Justice O. 8. Bulkley at Lancaster station after he reportedly made disparaging remarks about her. Bulkley denies insulting the woman as onlookers and a deputy constable intervened.
John Crance of St. Joseph has started a fund to erect a monument to EB Harriman by a national popular subscription of railroad employees. The Harriman Monument Association will solicit 26 cents from each railroad employee nationwide, with a meeting to form a permanent organization scheduled for Sunday.
Lakeview Oregon hosts a vast land distribution by Oregon Valley Land Co and Hertford Cattle Co. Some 300000 acres are divided into 11992 tracts from 10 to 1000 acres, all sold for 200 dollars each with a town lot. Buyers from across the nation converge, as trustees manage auctions and titles while subsidizing travel for select purchasers. The event lasts two to three weeks with tents, booths, and camp meeting ambiance.
James J. Hill, a prominent railway magnate born near Cudlph, Upper Canada on September 16, 1888, is noted in Minneapolis for his 71st birthday. He has long been engaged in railroad and steamship enterprises and remains a leading figure in the transportation system he oversees.
Athens brief notes report BF A Dudly and family depart for a two week pleasure trip to the exposition, headquartering in Seattle. Other Athena residents, including J P Neal, J N Scott, Mrs Lilly Miller, Miss Dora Fennett, Walter McCormmack, and Kenneth McRae, plan or have taken trips to Seattle, the exposition, and coast cities as autumn town life resumes. Farmers prepare for fall seeding while deer season opens and park work continues. Five families move to town. demand for rental houses rises amid school interest.
The Sixteenth of September, Mexican Independence Day, was celebrated with a grand military pageant, salutes, races, and other sports in the capital. The day marks congress convening and authorities prepared with U S and Mexican cooperation to prevent border disturbances as plans for the centennial next year are discussed by a formal commission.
Aurelio Herrera the Mexican fighter pauses two years from the prize ring to meet Chick Hudson of Seattle in a twenty round bout at Bakersfield. If he proves restored to form he may be matched with Young Corbett and other top rivals.
Washington Sept. 15 Four cadets at the Annapolis Naval Academy have been dropped from the roll by direction of President Taft for inaptitude shown on the corps practice cruise this summer. Names include M Dunnell Jr of New York City IL BE Fagan second cites Philadelphia L K Taylor second chima Wheeling WV and M Flett second class Larimore ND.
Martin, Whitman captain elect and northwest sprint standout, leaves for Notre Dame Ind to enter the university. A three year member of the Missionaries track team he set a northwest college record in the 10 yard dash in 1906 and later won the 100 yard dash at a Seattle Athletic Club meet, also excelling in football and baseball.
The legislature passed a law prohibiting miscegenation, forbidding intermarriage between whites and African or Mongolian descendants. The measure, rushed through by a Clark County representative, is hailed by judges and clergy who feared the legal bar of color in marriages.
Washington reports a 1906 church population of about 33 million with 1.25 billion dollars invested in church buildings. Daily, eight new churches rise. men are under half the membership. In sixteen states Roman Catholics lead, but Protestants total 61.6 percent and Catholics 36.7 percent nationally, per a Census Bureau bulletin by William C. Hunt.
Washington Sept. 16 Remains of the old French company's machinery in the Canal zone worth thousands of dollars will be sold as junk by the government. Work has utilized over a hundred locomotives, but thousands of pounds of metal remain suitable only for breaking up. Bids were opened today and the material will go to the highest bidder.
Four elephants from a traveling show escaped while being moved from Mirloca to Phoenix. They stampeded near a Mexican hacienda, broke fences, and charged an adobe house where a Mexican woman and six children hid. The elephants balked at a small door and were finally subdued by their keepers.
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