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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1906
Page
5
Classified notices include for sale threshing machinery and equipment with feeders band cutters and wind stacks plus demand to rent a furnished 12 to14 room house and a helper for general housework. Local wood suppliers offer cord wood and prices listed. Also cosmetics tea tablets and patent medicines advertised with addresses and contact references.
Property listing describes eight acres a six room house a barn and space for chickens or hogs with an orchard and abundant water located east of mill. Will trade for city property. Apply at premises John Gavan.
Ad claims Dr. King's New Life Pills awaken torpid liver and unblock bowels to prevent appendicitis. It presents the pills as the most effective cure, toning the system and sold at Newlin Drug Co for 25 cents.
Foley Elk and La Grano Investment Co advertise two million feet timber claims and pasture land of 160 acres near Morgan Lake. Good springs noted. Lease rate stated at $1.00 per head per month.
An old advertisement touts Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery as a nerve nourishing tonic free of alcohol. It claims lasting strength and bodily vigor, condemns alcohol-based tonics, and promotes the accompanying Common Sense Medical Adviser and Pleasant Pellets for constipation and biliousness.
Fishermen and hunters prepare as Oregon announces grouse season open from midnight to December first. Deputy Clerk Bramwell issued 352 hunting licenses to date, with open quail and pheasant limits and specific seasonal dates across Union county in the state.
The Teachers' Annual Institute will be held in this city on September 3 4 and 5 with county teachers encouraged to attend. State Superintendent J H Ackerman Ed Ressler J A Churchhill WC Hartranft A G Hartranft and City Superintendent H J Hockenberry will speak. Details and arrangements will be announced later.
Notice says no hunting on any part of the Williams pasture south of town. Trespassers will be prosecuted. T. L. Williams, Manager.
DADDIES DOLLAR A piece of coin no larger than the 'Dollar of our Daddies' is sufficient to start a savings account at this bank. Interest begins when deposits are made on the first, second, or third of any month, with interest from the first day of that month. Applies to May and every month, three calendar months minimum for both small and large depositors. The bank invites business, highlighting a capital surplus and liability of shareholders totaling 154,000.00.
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