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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1911
Page
6
Readers test their recall with a citywide quiz of business names and locations in La Grande. Prizes include $10 cash to Mrs W W Bullard as first prize, with questions identifying drug stores grocers hotels wagon makers harness shops and more across Adams Avenue Depot Street Fir Street and Jefferson Avenue.
For 20 years this established store on Adams Ave 413 H Feare offers trusted jewelry, watch and clock repair, and expert eyeglass fittings. The business emphasizes reputation and safety for buyers in a tricky market.
The store offers books periodicals stationery school and office supplies pianos phonographs and musical instruments. Exclusive agents for Star Richmond plan with easy terms and in-store music and talking machine records. Located at 1114 Adams Avenue.
A La Grande location at 4 Dr. J. C. Price and 7 Adams Avenue Arcade sells cigars tobacco confectionery periodicals newspapers and sporting goods. The shopkeeper, a courteous gentleman, is identified with the fifth U S president’s name. Customers come for up to date quality and news.
The bakery offers life giving bread made from first quality flour baked to perfection. It sells pies cakes cookies and doughnuts with a daily capacity of 2000 loaves. Bread appears in city grocers and summer ice cream and bakery lunches are served. Address: 1 Fred Dutl, Fir Street.
Blue Mountain Creamery at 1009 Washington Avenue appears in this notice. The entry specifies the business name and street address for locating the creamery within the area.
A large produce company, two years in business here, wholesale and retail dealer in hay grain feed flour fuel and poultry supplies. They are sole local distributors for Snow Drift flour and exclusive dealers for Diamond poultry feed, located at 18 Waters Street and 1426 Jefferson Avenue.
The firm established in 1900 offers granite and marble monuments and stone work, guarantees top Western quality, and lists E. C. Davis as proprietor with address 1502. They provide copings, building stone and accept contracts.
The studio, a long established fixture, invites all with or without beauty to visit. It specializes in high grade portraits produced in top styles and sizes. Located in a substantial ground floor building, the studio is run by H. J. Ritter at 1706 Sixth Street.
The notice describes a long standing corner mercantile presence now a live grocery at 406 Fir Street Harris Grocery Stageberg and Sandberg. It asks for the firm name and location. It also asks for leading dry cleaning works In the city now operating since February at The Wardrobe 1118 Adams Avenue with dry cleaning pressing dyeing and tailoring services.
The Flor de Hackman factory located at 1109 Adams Avenue is noted in the listing. Flor de Hackman is identified as the brand associated with the facility.
One of the leading point and wallpaper martars puts before your imagination a small word picture. His name is placarded all over town on nearly every corner. The city would hardly know how to keep house without the title receptacles he has made so prominent. He has been following the painting business here for many years.
The prominent local real estate broker based at 2 Black Hi Depot Street markets lands in Grande Ronde Valley. He offers large or small tracts, improved or unimproved, along with extensive insurance agency services for multiple underwriters. He is a trusted advisor for investments and property value, with offices in this valley.
This playful note describes a new variety store that makes up in length what it lacks in width, a riddle highlighting its quirky proportions and humorous wordplay.
Geo. H. Currey of 108 Elm Street is touted as a leading local realty figure in La Grande and the Grande Ronde valley. The article notes his six percent commission model and roles in fire insurance with Alliance and Williamsburg firms.
A local ad touts Daltons Supply House corner of Adams avenue and Fir street offering groceries enamel ware crockery tinware tea coffee and more. It highlights Chesterfield shoes Sorority fine shoes and Golden Days school shoes plus premiums with purchases.
NUMBER 44, 44 Silverthorn's Family Drug store at the northwest corner of Adams avenue and Depot street. NUMBER 45 denotes a prominent land office practitioner with 20 years in the field. J.T. Williamson advertises expertise in Lands in any township for 60c per township and lists his office at 1118 Adams avenue.
A dentist who has practiced here for 20 years, longer than any local dentist, serves a prominent clientele including many of the city and surrounding area’s leading families. His early patrons now bring in their younger relatives for care. He was a member of the State Board of Dental.
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