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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1911
Page
3
The Observer invites entrants to name La Grande firms with exact styles and locations for cash prizes. Questions cover oldest drug store, Barrington Hall coffee, Blue Stem flour, a dentist on Elm Street, a modern picture house, a cigar store, a leading hotel, and more.
A four year old meat market operating under a broad valley name with its own abattoir and cold storage plant. It offers wholesale and retail fresh and salt meats, ham bacon lard sausages pickles olives appetizers and fresh fish twice weekly. Located at the stated market and another market address.
The store has operated in this city for two decades and is presented as the oldest in the line. It emphasizes a reputation for trustworthy jewelry sales, repairs of watches, clocks, and jewelry, and correct fitting of glasses. This reputation is highlighted as a key consideration for buyers.
A store advertises as a leading seller of books periodicals stationery school and office supplies pianos phonographs and musical instruments. It offers a large stock of sheet music exclusive agency for Star and Richmond pianos and financing options and a wide range of disc and cylinder records for talking machines.
Question asks for the name and location of the county's oldest harness man. He started 32 years ago, operates his own manufacturing from premium materials, guarantees every harness, and sells saddles, blankets, robes, whips, and horse goods. Claims to offer unmatched quality and pricing in Tastero Oregon. product from California.
A bakery touts its life giving nutritious bread baked to perfection as the best option and notes a daily capacity of 2,000 loaves. Its products, including pies cakes cookies and doughnuts, are sold in all city grocery stores and in summer offer ice cream and bakery lunches. Location described as outside the high rent district.
A locally established business operating for eight years produces premium butter and ice cream for the local market. They supply retailers and families with sweet cream milk and buttermilk. The facility is fully equipped and sanitary, with growing seasonal trade. Name and location requested.
A two year old local wholesale and retail company handles hay grain feed flour fuel and poultry supplies in the city. It markets Snow Drift floor and Diamond brand poultry feed as exclusive distributors and is praised by bread makers for quality. The reader is asked to provide the company's name and location.
The line hints at a final witty firm presence and tacitly frames it as a sought resource when needed, suggesting a humorous or promotional clue within a playful advertisement or gloss.
A local drawing offers first prize in cash and a third prize of a trade order from Wright's Drug Store valued at $5.00.
The passage notes a granite marble and stone monument firm in Oregon established in 1900, offering copings and stone work with a western standard. It also mentions a La Grande seeds and grain house started in 1893 8, operating a large warehouse, handling hay grain seed flour and seeds, and serving as a Rock Creek flour distributor and Allen & Lewis Baker County wholesale grocery agent.
A playful verse promotes a shop on Elm Street selling a variety of goods including tobacco and candy. It hints at fishing tackle and urges readers to learn the store's number and name. The poem suggests the place is a hangout for local boys seeking cigarettes and treats.
A corner grocer promotes two five ones as sole distributors of Snow White and Our Sea flour. They feature Leage Haskins coffee, a city exclusive. The store offers groceries, houseware, garden seeds, and bulk seeds with low expenses and prices. Location on a corner with a 50 feet front and wareroom.
The passage highlights a central La Grande restaurant serving home style meals daily including short orders and dinners. It is described as a popular banquet venue with 146 tables and noted for excellent service. The place is identifiable at night by its electric sign.
An ad seeks the city agency for Columbia bicycles and Pioneer motorcycles, selling Franklin automobiles and offering extensive automobile and bicycle repairs. It lists repairs for typewriters, umbrellas, guns, locks, keys, grinding, sewing machines, and more. The proprietor claims 15 years of machinist experience and a fully equipped garage. Where is the name and location?
A prominent city studio invites all comers to have portraits made, promising transformation for those without beauty and long recognized for high quality work. The studio, a longtime city fixture, occupies a substantial ground floor building in a scenic location and specializes in portraits in all styles and sizes.
A nine year local business sells used home furnishings and hardware at half price after overhaul. Stoves ranges and a Standard $25.00 talking machine are offered for only 7.08.
A long standing corner business with over 20 years of service has evolved from a general store to a hide market, meat market, and in recent years a live grocery store. The new owners are expanding interior improvements while maintaining delivery wagons and citywide reach. The ad invites discovery of the firm name and location.
A prominent dry cleaning firm in the city began operations in February. The business offers complete cleaning and pressing services, smart tailoring for merchants, dyeing, and repairs. They emphasize a fade and shrink free process and guarantee satisfaction with their improved method.
Five years ago a local cigar factory opened in this city and now offers leading cigars sold at 10 and 12 1 2 cents in two sizes. The maker also produces the "C. B." and the Lord James" 10c cigars and the "Little H" Sc cigar, all praised as best values for money. Next time at the counter ask for these brands.
A leading paint and wallpaper dealer is praised for long service in town. He prominently advertises his full line of Dass-Heuter paints as the sole city agent, and also handles wallpaper, oils, glass, and painting supplies. A skilled craftsman, he is highlighted as essential to keeping homes well kept.
An established furniture and carpet dealer, seven years in business, operates from a corner location with 60 feet frontage. The one-floor shop features two departments and a balcony offering furniture, carpets, inlaid linoleums, lace curtains, portieres, and couch covers with competitive prices and a growing trade. The question asks for the firm’s name and location.
A veterinary surgeon located here four years practices vaccination, surgery and dentistry. A graduate of Ohio State University, he treated horses, cattle and dogs and has seen splendid success with services in high demand across the valley.
The passage asks readers to supply names and locations for a wagon maker, a dry cleaning and dyeing firm, a general store, and a major real estate agency. It requests proprietors and store locations, plus an manager’s name for the real estate firm, all to be added to an address book.
A 16 year old La Grande business houses farm implements headquarter selling Devr ing Oliver Moline Henney Racine Bain Weber Mandt Monitor and other gear from a commodious warehouse. The livery stable run by a long time practical operator keeps horses in basement stalls at night and names the stable after a large American city.
The Valley’s leading real estate figure, active in buying and selling lands of all sizes in the Grande Ronde area, also runs extensive insurance business as agent for major underwriters. He promotes bargains in improved and unimproved lands and is highly regarded for counsel on investments.
The city’s go to source for choice whiskies bottled in bond and Budweiser distribution. They offer Overland beer both bottled and on draught, focus on family trade in package liquor, plus a fine bar with cold lunches at any hour and a large wine selection.
The advertisement touts a long local variety store offering fresh new goods at 26 cents or less. Shoppers are urged to “bunch all those little notions” and compare value with regular stores, claiming many items are worth more elsewhere.
A La Grande dentist, graduate of Philadelphia Dental College, runs a practice with two busy chairs and aseptic white enamel dental furniture. He specializes in crown and bridge work and maintains sterilized instruments. readers are asked to provide his name and location.
The passage identifies La Grande insurance experts who offer representation for companies headed by the Howes of New York. Their firms hold combined assets of 129,616,400 and focus mainly on insurance, with limited activity in real estate, concentrating on mortgage loans and financing properties. They have long operated in the city and maintain an office on the ground floor.
The passage praises a leading establishment in La Grande famed for high quality ice cream and frozen desserts. It notes the place excels all Oregon towns, with a beautifully fitted shop, skilled proprietor, and thorough knowledge of modern manufacture.
The King references a drug store bearing Abe’s name that has exclusive local agency for renowned remedies praised for their specific ailments. The store has operated here for 12 years, features a large soda fountain, Pickard d-painted cig, and Ricksecker Toilet line, offering drugs and druggists sundries. It is located in this city.
A local realty man praises the Grande Ronde valley and La Grande, boasting of years of influence while handling city property and farming land deals on a six percent basis. He also writes fire insurance as agent for Alliance and Williamsburg Fire Insurance companies, with plans to interest cash buyers on a cold day.
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