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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1911
Page
6
In La Grande locals saw O A C win 3 to none as Whitman star Niles shined with ball carries and a drop kick. O A C failed on an onside kick for a touchdown by Robertson with Reynolds blocking. Reynolds and Enberg arrived briefly in the city for a visit.
Gossard Corsets claim health benefits and comfort for many women, crediting supportive design for back relief, breathing ease, and posture. Physicians note lacing faults in other corsets and recommend Gossard as a solution, with models priced from $2.50 to $8.50 and available at Mrs Route Pattison's store.
Quarterback Charles Reynolds came home to spend the weekend with his parents. Enberg from Baker also passed through La Grande but did not play yesterday. Reynolds will return to Oregon State Agricultural College likely on Sunday.
Advertisement notes PAZO OINTMENT promises cure of itching bleeding prolapsed piles in six to fourteen days with money refund if it fails. Drugget refund policy emphasizes guaranteed results and price sixty cents.
Standley lodge No. 113 of Wallowa held a formal dedication last Thursday night with Grand Master Baldwin of Prineville and Past Grand Master Ed Kiddle of Island City among the attendees. A Grand Lodge session opened, an Entered Apprentice degree was conferred, and a banquet followed at the McCrae hotel with remarks by grand officers and Rev. Thomas Johns of Ontario.
Muscadine Alabama man C H Brown credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving his wife who was bedridden with a bronchial illness and severe cough. The remedy is advertised as infallible for coughs colds and serious lung troubles with prices 50c 1.00 and a free trial offer guaranteed by druggists.
A Des Moines man suffering muscular rheumatism in the shoulder followed a friend's advice to visit Hot Springs at a cost of $10 or more. He sought a cheaper remedy and found relief with Chamberlain's Liniment. Three days after first use he was well. For sale by all dealers.
Slightly used ideal plane offered at a sacrifice. Easy payment terms available. For details contact G. M. Richey at the post office. October 30 notice.
The University of Oregon sets a four month pause in football and shifts focus to debate. Ten finalists are named from the squad to face Utah Washington and Stanford on recall of judges with tryouts on December 2 and December 12. The Utah debate is January 19 in Eugene and the Washington Stanford triangular debate is March 15.
Barbados prides itself as the little England of the tropics a colonial outpost that never lost a war and would back Britain in any crisis It boasts bold pledges of alliance offering asylum to Napoleon and vowing to intervene should England face danger from Russia or in South Africa and asserts unmatched national confidence.
The Kanaa people of Bolivia live in a high plateau valley where the dead are laid on elevated platforms within burial grounds. Bodies are wrapped and bound to crossbeams, forming a haunting sight amid the pure highland air and desolate landscape.
The tale recounts a dress rehearsal at His Majesty's Theatre that stretched to the small hours. A weary actor with Sir Herbert Tree delivered faint lines prompting the quick sarcasm from Tree and the witty reply that earned the actor a raise.
A Munsey's excerpt cites a southern physician urging abandonment of outward mourning symbols. He notes adoption by many who see no need to display sorrow, referencing ancient and foreign customs from Rome to Asia Minor, Turkey, Persia, and a color-history with European and Chinese practices.
A New York pure food expert demonstrates pin-prick oil tests on nutmegs to distinguish genuine oil rich seeds from wooden fakes. He describes real nutmegs releasing oil when pricked, while wooden ones fail, and notes methods to extract oil without pressing.
An observer notes the Gascony dunes between Bordeaux and Bayonne. Each year the sea deposits about 5,000,000 cubic yards of sand along a 100 mile coastline. Westerly winds move sand from the westward slope to the inward slope, pushing the dune ridge inward. Complex parallel dunes reach up to 250 feet and advance three to six feet annually, sometimes burying villages that are rebuilt farther inland.
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