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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1910
Page
6
Multiple fraternal and benevolent orders in Grande list weekly or biweekly meetings at local halls. Notices invite visiting members and name officers such as R Snoo k Clerk, Anna Alexander N G, and Mary Warnick Secretary.
A poem laments slow justice that favors patience over swift action. It metaphorically compares legal remedies to a plodding journey, noting how cases drag on while real thefts and wrongs go unaddressed. It emphasizes missed opportunities to honor those who help others, especially after death.
A fragmentary dialogue centers on marriage prospects and social status with talk of wealth and family approval. The speakers debate willingness and intelligence while weaving in curiosities about a baby and a dangerous substance described as powerful. The scene hints at broader social maneuvering and hidden tensions.
A Houston Post quotation about love amid high living costs is paired with a light chestnut tree verse. The exchange features a vow to wed when prices fall and a comical village figure described with exaggerated hands. The fragment ends with a playful city magazine tone.
A brief Yonkers Statesman snippet notes the prestidigitateur claiming LT urged keeping hands still for a minute to aid a trick and remarks LT could not due to being French, reflecting stagecraft humor.
Fragmented poem chatter from the Chicago Record-Herald and Star papers hints at aristocratic pretensions and trades. A tinker's skill, a fraier father, and a daughter flaunting littherwoman gowns surface amid playful banter.
A humorous dialogue fragment about finding a mosquito killer and a series of rapid, disjoint exchanges. The lines include a pun on time and shoes, a mistaken dinner invitation, and quick jabs about health and digestion. The text reads like a snippet from a staged or chatty period piece.
The city of La Grande Oregon invites sealed bids by the Mayor and Council at the City Recorder office until 4 o clock p m September 7 1910 for 360 feet of cribbing and a new river channel along the river near Fourth street Bids must be accompanied by a certified check equal to 6 percent of the bid amount The council may reject any and all bids La Grande Oregon August 22 1910 Mayor F L Meyers City Recorder Cox August 22 September 1
Sugar cash price six seventy five. beet sugar six fifty six. Vegetables include new dry onions and green onions. butter extra creamery price36 35. tomatoes ten cents per pound. new potatoes ten for a nickel. cabbage and green corn priced. Fruit lists oranges lemons bananas watermelons cantaloupe peaches grapes priced. Meats described by live weight values and chickens and turkey prices. butter fat delivered in Portland cream thirty two and a half cents. eggs local candied twenty six to twenty seven. poultry prices for various birds. barley futures and wheat nominal track prices. mill stuffs and flour old crop patents five dollars thirty five cents.
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