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Newspaper
Eugene Weekly Guard
Location
Eugene, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
4
An advertisement showcases suit sale prices from $12.50 down to $6.00 with multiple sale points. The list includes $10.00 $8.00 and a final note of $9.75 and $6.00, indicating a clearance style promotion through a local retailer.
The Eugene market reports a broad package of livestock and farm goods with fluctuating prices. Dairy butter and eggs sold at 20 to 50 cents per unit, poultry and meat prices listed. hay, grain, and hop market expectations discussed alongside wheat and canning fish prospects on the Columbia River.
Market report details cattle prices with ranges for steers cows and bulls, sheep prices for wethers and lambs, and notes on horses, hogs, and market arrivals. Includes Portland market quotes for butter eggs wheat barley oats hay mohair wool hops potatoes onions and casara bark with supply and demand observations.
Jog Jacobs the West Eighth street merchant who was fined five hundred dollars and served thirty days in the county jail for selling liquor in violation of the local option law today paid his fine and was released from custody after serving the sentence. The penalty has had a sanitary effect in reducing blind pigs in Europe and liquor is now hard to secure though a few reportedly remain.
A collection of brief notices records several marriages in July 1908 across Oregon. Entries mention the couples Chas F Tanner and Emma Thram in Eugene, J H Aunvill and Fay G Jennings in Eugene, Jobo Charedill and Theodora Eres in Eocene, and Willow KJ Selma Craton at Bay View Mote, with officiants Rev J S McCallum or Rev O C Wright.
In the Rogge River valley a series of fruit ventures show profits from 16 acres of Winter Pears at 1137.50 per acre and 10 acres of pears at 560 per acre. An investment of 18,000 is noted with 50 acres of apricots and 100 acres referenced, with several local figures and property owners involved in the MeSe rts Lane area near Eugene.
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