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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1908
Page
4
Local rates for daily, monthly, and yearly subscriptions and advertising. Notices include condolence lines and cards of thanks. Hobo problem along the Southern Pacific creates police trouble in southern Oregon towns. Roseburg News cites daily average near 100 wanderers. Medford socialists nominate a city ticket.
Francis J. Heney says he will not take part in the Pittsburg graft prosecutions when they are brought to trial. He also denied a conference with President Roosevelt last Saturday about the cases.
Winnipeg dispatch reports a warrant issued today accusing Park A. Smith Jr of Nugent Smith Co. of embibing ten thousand dollars. Smith departed for Toronto a week ago and moved in exclusive circles in the city.
New York reports on strong authority that Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia University is chosen supremo to Dr Charles W. Eliot as head of Harvard. Pope Has Relapse in Rome a slight relapse today not alarming. He is afflicted with continuance of illness.
Roy Wheeler, a Fort Lawton soldier, failed his attempt with carbolic acid and then battered his head on a stone wall. He was overpowered and jailed in a straight jacket, with a supposed love affair cited as the motive and an unnamed Indian girl as the jilted party.
Henry C Dowing department manager of the Nelson Morris Co and member of the meat trust testified before a federal grand jury. He was questioned about the firm's accounts seized by district attorney agents during the investigation.
In Omaha Nebraska on December 24 authorities report vast exhibits from the valley as the Trans-Mission Poultry Stock Association opens its annual show. The industry adds millions annually and income from poultry is rising rapidly.
A Vancouver capitalist promotes a cannery plan that builds, outfits, and runs a factory at no local investment, selling the machinery at cost after startup. The scheme favors local stock by fruit men and investors, includes independent heating, and argues peas beans corn and other crops can sustain a profitable home cannery financed by local capital.
A store advertises a large clearance offering everything at half price. It lists solid gold and filled jewelry, clocks, watches, diamonds, silverware, Donald’s china, Hawkes glass, Gans Bros umbrellas, and other items.
Syracuse N Y December 28 Educators from across the Empire state numbering in the hundreds gather in Syracuse for the annual New York State Teachers Association session over the next three days Leading national authorities will address papers and speeches as part of the program.
Farmers stockgrowers poultry raisers and cattlemen in Kansas attend the State Farmers Institute in Manhattan to hear papers and addresses and witness practical demonstrations by experts during the holiday season.
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