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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1906
Page
5
A vintage ad touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for infants asserting it as the best baby medicine on earth. It offers tea or tablets at 85 cents from Newuim Drive Company.
Advertises Dr King's New Life Pills as a remedy for constipation and torpid liver. Claims to prevent Appendicitis and restore system tone. Priced at 26 cents at Newsin Drug Go.
Review lauds Mahara's Minstrels at the Lyric praising refined performance and high artistry. Sherman credited for management as the company, hailed as one of the best minstrel shows to visit Salgary with fulfilled billboard promises. Calgary Press notes dates La Grande Steward Opera House August 13.
A lively note praises Hill's soda fountain offering popular drinks to quench thirst while saving money for rent clothing and family. It stresses treating wife and children and sharing smiles with all.
An eighteenth century style advertisement extols Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a stomach tonic and blood purifier. It claims to strengthen digestion, cleanse liver and kidneys, improve blood quality, and support brain and nerve vigor. Endorsements from medical writers are promised with a free medical adviser offer.
The steam er Troy collided with a span of the inter state bridge at Duluth blocking upper harbor navigation and cutting off Duluth Superior traffic. The Great Northern bridge is the longest draw span in the world and forty upper harbor steamers are cut off from the lake.
A report compares annual appropriations for state farmers’ institutes across New York and several western states. It notes New York’s $20,000 and smaller sums for Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and others, arguing the divergence reflects land wealth and population patterns but seems excessive.
Charles Harrison, an OR & N steam shovel employee near Hilgard, fell into a gravel pit after dark. He suffered head and leg bruises and will be laid off for a few days.
An O. R. N. freight box car on an eastbound freight was robbed at an early hour yesterday between this place and Meacham. Some passengers put off at Meacham are suspected. The stolen goods are not known. railway officialsprovided only scant details.
John E Hough urged spraying apple trees around August fifteenth as the optimal time to kill worm larvae. He cites his orchard experience and evidence that worm growth peaks now, reducing future damage and improving fruit quality, a view shared by other valley fruit growers.
Seven miles south of La Grande two stray horses described as a black gelding with a circle V on the right hip a white front and hind foot and a bay gelding branded on the left shoulder. Owner may claim by paying charges.
John T. Cook, former clerk of the circuit court, convicted of stealing thirty thousand dollars of public money, was sentenced to an indeterminate prison term and fined two thousand dollars in Chicago.
A blaze in Redding on August 11 damaged O Connel’s saloon and Smith’s meat market along with other structures. Firefighters used dynamite to contain the flames, keeping the loss around six thousand dollars.
Clark of the County Court of Union County Oregon invites sealed bids for papering and painting the Union County Hospital by September 6 1906. Paper must be varnished quality and painting covers interior work including floors with two coats of oil and lead. Court reserves right to reject all bids.
The city of La Grande invites written bids for two hundred cords of green wood cut to four foot lengths. Bids must be filed with the City Recorder before 4 p.m. on August 13, 1906. Wood to be delivered to the city pumping plant no later than November 1, 1906, properly seasoned and first class. The city reserves the right to reject any or all bids. I R Snoux, Recorder. Dated August 3, 1906.
A watchman's lapse allowed a fearsome North Sea dyke breach to devastate a Dutch province, a disaster likened to a child stopping a leak. Kenneth McIver of Waceboro Maine narrowly survived a lung inflammation after a neglected cold, rescued by Dr Kings New Discovery. Trial bottles exist at Newlin Drug Co.
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