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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1905
Page
3
A holiday sale promotes books as ideal gifts with single volumes and sets including Oxford Bibles and prayer books at prices often below publishers. Also featured are cigars in gift boxes from 1.00 per box and a large Meerschaum and briar pipe selection at special box prices.
Memorandum suggests using Beconecting ads to note suitable gifts for people on your list. Mark lines opposite the fatie and focus selections when you come to shop. Try this plan this year to concentrate attention on predefined gift lines.
Stir prices are the lowest to be had with colored paraffin candles in boxes from 16 to 42 inches. Candle holders garlands desk accessories and shaving items like Gillette razors safeties and accessories. Also pocket knives carving sets and implements available for men women and boys as desirable gifts.
The store promotes a wide range of Christmas goods including candy boxes, holly designs, Bible editions, prayer books, hymnals, and church items. A separate children's gifts department offers toys, games, and novelties, plus bags, ribbons, frames, and Christmas cards at competitive prices.
A local notice recounts Albert Percy Watmough Evans, a royal navy midshipman and friend of Marshal Coffman, eloping and fleeing toward Spokane while sheriff seeks his arrest. The piece shifts to a comic Georgia episode where Neal teases Jack Baldwin by bells as the old horse runs and Jack prays, ending with a punchline cited from the Atlanta Journal.
Two point six million feet of lumber are to be loaded in Portland for shipment to Australia. The items reflect a robust timber trade amid nationwide activity as winter closes mills in the Northwest.
A Baker City Democrat fragment recounts a drunk man nodding off in a gutter after celebrating a day. A pig lies beside him until Rev. J R N Bell passes and comments on associating with the wrong company before the pig wanders off.
Dr King’s New Life Pills claim to clear the body and show health with rosy cheeks bright eyes and firm flesh. Available at Newlin Drug Store for 25 cents. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea offers red lips bright eyes and a smooth complexion at 56 cents. Newsin Davo Co.
An advertisement urges readers to try Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for pleasant digestion. It claims easy ingestion and no gaping or unpleasant effect, noting Newto Davo Co. as the seller.
Advertisements praise Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as the greatest baby medicine, claiming it makes babies strong and active. Props are offered at 55 to 56 cents for tea or tablets, with mentions of Tea or Tabiete and various brand names.
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