Humiliation in Stocks and Odd Village Legends
A hazy narrative recalls Huabhardt punished by stocks amid taunts from swine dog cock and an Indian with a tomahawk, then an old bull disrupts the scene and departs. The text shifts to Old Mosque Legends describing Sarajevo’s Begova mosque and a pasha’s measure grooves. It ends with tale of seven beheaded dervishes whose bodies carried their heads into the mosque.
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Library of Con
Huabbuird
Boston
Harper's Ly
Huabhardt
Begova
Sarajevo
Europe
Constantinople
Selima
Adrianople
Pourty
A Course of Dinners and Kangaroo Tail Facts
A scanned excerpt discusses an 1840s booklet The Economic Pleasurekeeper and its week long dinner course with daily menus. It also notes the kangaroo tail as vital for rapid progress, with hunters aiming at the tail join for an effective stop.
Insect Wonders And The Minute Marvels Of Creation
The text extols insect perfection, noting a spider web strand of 4000 threads and butterfly wings with 100000 scales while silkworm moth wings reportedly hold 400000 scales. It states wings can be extremely thin yet individually complete and double, highlighting nature's intricate design.
Puzzled Tommy Defies Parents Over Heaven Promise
In a clipped exchange from Lippincott's, Tommy asks his father about salvation and heaven as he recalls his Sunday school teacher’s promise. He questions who is to blame for any mischief, prompting a light domestic moment.
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Tommy
Lin
Jumbo dictionary dwarfs Webster in Washington study
A massive reference work at the Geological Survey on F Street is described as the biggest book in Washington. The six-volume dictionary sits on a stand, bound in leather, weighing as much as a high school girl and containing 7,086 pages, far larger than Webster's Unabridged beside it.
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Washington
Congressional Library
Geological Survey
F Street
Did Not Like Comparisons Sparks Discharge Debate
A Washington Star item notes a preas agent recalling a remark about a prima donna de mand. The exchange highlights tension over praise for others and a focus on one’s own singing.
Fragmentary Verse Interlude About a Worm and Angler
A murky, fragmented line depicts a worm speaking to an angler about mortality and fate. The tale hints at danger for both worm and angler as a fish later reacts to being hooked. The odd narration blends personification with a rustic moral tone.
Fatal warning from a ghostly exchange in Cleveland Leader
A dramatic snippet from the Cleveland Leader depicts a fatal moment as a woman cries out to a man in a bustling scene. The man denies danger while a spectral figure claims to be the ghost of a starving passenger, heightening the eerie mood.
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Cleveland
Market Quotations From Portland Area Currents
Sugar cash price six eighty six cents, best sugar six fifty five. Vegetables list onions six, peas ten, rhubarb three, lettuce ten, radishes three for ten, greens three for ten, tomatoes one dollar per pound, new potatoes ten or twenty five, cabbage one hundred weight? Green corn twenty five cents a dozen. Fruits oranges fifty cents a dozen, lemons forty, bananas forty, cherries twenty five to thirty six per gallon, raspberries two boxes twenty five, blackberries two boxes two. Meats hogs live weight nine dollars per hundredweight, cows four to four and a half, veal four to four and a half, mutton three and a half to four, chickens thirteen. Portland markets butter extra creamery thirty, store twenty four to twenty four and a half. Butter fat dollars per hundredweight, sour cream thirty one and a half, sour twenty nine and a half. Eggs price sixty to seventy cents. Poultry chickens sixteen to sixteen and a half, fancy turkeys alive twenty to twenty one, pigeons two fifty, dressed chickens one to seven cents higher. Barley producer price 1910, feed twenty eight, rolled twenty five, brewing twenty four. Wheat nominal hard red? club ninety, bluestem eighty eight, Willamette valley eighty six and eighty? Flour old crop patents five thirty five.
Crystal Lodge No. 16 Meeting Notice
Crystal Lodge No 16 meets Tuesdays in the C O F hall visiting members invited Miss Anna Alexander N G Mrs Jennie M Smith Secretary notes indicate monthly gathering and open attendance for members and visitors.
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la Grande Camp No
I. R. Snook
Women of Woodcraft
Grande Ronde Girol No. 47
I. C. O. F. Hall
Chloe Robinson
G. M
Lizzie Ellsworth
BP. C. E. la Grande Lodge No. 433
Elk's Club
Depot Street
Washington Avenue
G. L. Biggers
Hugh McCall
Crystal Lodge No. 16
C. O. F. Hall
Anna Alexander
N. G
Jennie M. Smith
Ses
Knights of Pythias Red Cross Lodge No
Castle Hall
Old Bik’s Hall
Wright
Lincoln
M. of R
Hope
Holde
Mary A. Warnick
Pauline Lederler
W. M
Woodmen of the World
la Grande Lodge No
Welcom
Summer Suit Cleaning at Pennington's
Get that summer suit cleaned and pressed at Pennington's. Call Block 851 or 44 for service and hours.
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Pennington’s
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Portland
Bluestem
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Iran
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C. J. Black
LA Grande, Ore
D. E. Cox
A. F
A. M
John ™. Hodgin
Chamberlain
Stenaer
Neri Ackles
C. C
J. H. Keeney
Clert
J. R. Oliver
Mac Wood
Golden Rule
Adama Mee
Oregon Engineering and Construction Company
Joseph, Oregon
Cave
Condon
Hotel Oregon
Smith
Pennsylvania Avenue
Mia
Ash
Sand
Vulley
cUuUe
Avelye
Bramwall
Fourth
Candy PaTooe
Hedera Clatsdomsry Co
Wire
Greqaa
Electrical Contractors
Observer Office
Tiffany
J. H. Peare
la Grande
Professional Directory
C. J. Upton, Ph. G
la Grande National Bank
Geo, W. Zimmerman
Pacific Main
I. E. Moore
LA Grande School
J. H. Crawford
United States
Orecon
Charlton Welsrure
Res
J. W. C. Nelson
Baker City
Molitor
Adams
Price
D. M
la Grande National Building
Ho.e Black
Chas. B. Cochran
Geo. T. G Cochran & Cochran
la Grande National Bank Et la Grande
M. P
Mendelson
Adams’ Ave
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