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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1905
Page
6
Volume 1 number 1 of the North Powder News arrives with local news from a growing community. Registration urged before primaries. tax levy and revenue noted. China boycott discussion highlights trade risks. advertisements for medicines and services appear amid early 1900s commerce.
Notice of stockholders meeting at the La Grande National Bank building in La Grande Oregon Union county on Tuesday January 9 1906 at two oclock p m for electing a nine member board and any lawful business. F L Meyers Cashier dated December 11 1905.
Notice states the partnership J A Garity and Ben Brown doing business as J A Garity & Company is dissolved. All indebted parties must settle accounts at the office before January 1 1906. Signatories J A Gantry and Les Brown.
The Columbia River railroad project costs about 12 million with Union county supplying lumber and farm goods in 1906. President Roosevelt uses a press agent to promote canal progress while facing railway opposition and later places the agent on the canal commission, consolidating control.
Illinois Senator Davis delivers a durable defense of newspapers as community lenders. He notes focal papers offer free lines to aid the town, arguing editors invest in their communities in proportion to means and deserve support as the best local investment.
The piece notes a Chinese boycott could suspend trade and cites ten months of 1905 data: US imports from China valued at $25,643,547 and exports to China at $50,104,767. It compares imports from China to 1904 totals and highlights the broader economic strain.
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