Textile ad for checked woolen plaids and mixtures
An advertising snippet lists 6c wool Dreas Goods in plaids and fancy mixtures, 4 and 40 inches wide, offered for the 2let anniversary price per yard 48c.
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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1907
Page
2
An advertising snippet lists 6c wool Dreas Goods in plaids and fancy mixtures, 4 and 40 inches wide, offered for the 2let anniversary price per yard 48c.
The store advertises a wide range of fabrics and home goods with low prices for a week. Items include 26 inch Breached Muslin, light and dark Outing Flannel in multiple patterns, Oregon wool blankets in white grey or tan, cotton flannel blankets, hemmed Huck Towels and table linen with numerous patterns.
Dr N G Blalock of Walla Walla sells half interest in Blalock Island company owner of 16000 acres near Umatilla to James A Moore of Seattle. Moore becomes practically sole owner and will rapidly develop 6000 acres already in alfalfa with 4000 bearing fruit trees and plan to expand stock. Irrigation pumps ordered for mainland and island portions as operations shift to fruit, alfalfa, and thoroughbred stock.
The article notes high wages tempt skilled workers to Panama Canal construction but fear fever and malaria holds many back. It claims Electric Bitters makes travel safe from malarial risk and also treats blood, stomach, liver and kidney troubles. Sold by Tallman & Co. druggists for 60 cents.
Washington dealers report soaring prices for Eastern Washington Timothy and alfalfa with quotes of 27 and 24 dollars a ton for Timothy and 18 to 19 for alfalfa. Yakima Republic notes growers resisting lower bids, while Seattle dealers push famine language to justify high asks. Local buyers may find hay scarcity in price rhetoric, yet actual pay remains distant from stated asks. Residences and jobs appear in brief: sale of a Pendleton residence on Alta and Aura streets and a note seeking ladies' clothes workers for Robinson's Domestic Laundry.
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