General Repairing and misc services at Leighton's Auto Garage
An ad lists repair services at BR W Leighton’s Auto and Bicycle Garage including umbrellas phonographs sewing machines typewriters stoves guns and sharpening grinding and soldering. It notes a phone number Main 787 and 309 Fir street and mentions keys locks flashlights and supplies. Also includes a Lost watch notice and upcoming local church notices for January events and Epiphany mass.
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BR. W. Leighton
Fir Street
Notable Local Visitors and Travels Guide
Mrs. R. W. Logan visits Mot Lake Hooper Elgin second baseman en route to Portland Pan Sommers Elgin at the Sommer on business Mrs M M Beaty Baker business visitors in the city Roy Clapp family heads to Hot Lake for son’s treatments potential operation S. H. Dalton local merchant leaves for El Paso to inspect ranch interests return expected within a month
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Hooper
Elgin
Portland
Pan Sommers
Sommer
M. M. Beaty
Baker
The
Foley
Roy Clapp
Hot Lake
H. Dalton
el Paso
Tex
Oregon Woolgrowers Elect Officers At Baker Convention
The Oregon Woolgrowers Association elected Jay Dobbin as vice president and re elected Geo McKnight as president with Dan Smythe continuing as secretary. Dues are set at 2.60 per thousand sheep or 1 per head for small flocks, and the convention date will be announced later by the executive committee. A committee resolution condemns blind tinkering with the wood tariff.
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Baker
Oregon Woolgrowers’ Association
Geo. McKnight
Malhour
Jay H. Dobbin
Wallowa
Dan P. Smythe
Umatilla
Smythe
Oregon Woolgrowers Association
Committee On Resolutions
Oregon
Oregon lawmakers urge protections for forests and livestock
A series of resolutions address forest reserve protection, urging federal funding to prevent wildfires and keep reserves safe. Another resolution backs House bill 27 139 requiring railways to run livestock trains at least 16 miles per hour and calls for a state minimum speed law. The scalp bounty law is praised with a proposal to expand payouts in large counties.
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Oregon
Congress
American Humane Society
Allied Livestock Associations
Proposes Prohibition of Straw Ballots in Washington
Spokane Jan 5 Special legislator-elect Guy B Groff of Spokane proposes amendments to Washington primary laws to ban straw ballots by newspapers or individuals arguing such ballots influence races. He supports limiting third degree confessions in criminal trials and restoring the territorial era rule requiring warnings and attorney presence before confessions.
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Spokane
Wash
State of Washington
Guy B. Groff
Fis
Groff
Stockholders Meeting Notice of United States National Bank
Notice to stockholders of United States National Bank of La Grande Oregon that the annual meeting will be held at the banking house in La Grande on Tuesday January 10 from 10 am to 4 pm to elect a board of directors for the coming year and to transact other business. Dated La Grande December 6 1910. T. J. Scroggin cashier.
Notice of Annual Meeting of La Grande National Bank
Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the La Grande National Bank of La Grande Oregon will be held at their banking house in La Grande on Tuesday January 10 1911 at 2 o clock p m for the purpose of electing a board of directors to serve for the ensuing year and for the transaction of such other business as may be properly presented to said meeting Dated at La Grande Oregon Dec 16 1910 F L MEYERS Cashier
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United States National Bank of
la Grande
Oregon
T. J. Scroggin
Cashier
la Grande National Bank of
Books Lost by E. B. Lewis at Grande Ronde Cash
E B Lewis reports missing bookkeeping books including a ledger and day book and a ladies purse. Finder asked to leave items at the Grande Ronde Cash Company.
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E. B. Lewis
Grande Ronde Cash Company
Quack Remedy Advised For Cold Relief
A fractured fragment urges taking a large swallow of Chamberlain's Cough Dyp and soaking feet in hot water to combat a cold. The snippet promotes home remedies as a cure for illness and fever.
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Chamberlain
Goethe on Hamlet and Shakespearean vengeance
The passage frames Goethe’s view of Hamlet as the product of a great action inflicted on a young soul. It imagines Hamlet as torn between terror and duty after a ghostly visitation, then notes an oak in a costly jar symbolizing forbidden growth. From Wilhelm Meister, the prose echoes themes of fate and awakening.
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Hms
Uge
Wilhelm Meister
Sacking a New York Theater in 1705 Disturbs Public Peace
Theaters closed by distress rumors led many locals to stay away. The crowd burst in, caused noise and vandalism, injured several people including a boy with a fractured skull, but no deaths occurred. Demolished theater pieces were burned in a bonfire on the common.
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New York
A Cautious Scot Tells Of Aberdeen Journey
A London train stops briefly at Stonehaven due to a minor mishap. Porter Andra chats with a Salvation Army officer heading to Aberdeen, who jokes about driving the devil from Aberdeen. The porter retorts to send the devil north, adding a humorous local voice to the scene.
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Stonehaven
Aberdeen
Andra
Salvation Army
The Interrogatory Politician and Gobsa Golde Incident
A senator warns that those who ask unpleasant questions may receive unpleasant answers. The aged Gobsa Golde quarrels with his wife over money, as she retorts that his stinginess caused their cross words. The Washington Post.
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Gobsa Golde
Washington Post
Early steel making milestones and pioneers
The article traces steel production from Reanmur in 1722 using a bath of cast iron, to Huntsman’s factory near Sheffield in 1740, notes steel gaining fashion around 1800, and credits a major boost from Bessemer in 1850.
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Reanmur
Benjamin Huntsman
Sheffield
Bessemer
Hessians in the American War and Their Pennsylvania Legacy
A historical note argues Hessian soldiers were coerced by German princes into British service and many settled among Pennsylvania Germans after the war. It notes some remained due to sickness or wounds and were welcomed by German colonists, challenging wartime hatred with a view of loyal service and eventual citizenship.
Liberty Bell origins and myths recounted
The Liberty Bell was cast in London in 1752, shipped to America, recast in Philadelphia, and cracked in 1885 during Chief Justice John Marshall’s death tolling. It sits in Independence Hall Philadelphia. A 1904 Fried enwald critique disputes the Independence ringing legend popularized by George Lippard, noting no historical authority.
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London
America
Philadelphia
John Marshall
Independence Hall
Friedenwald
George Lippard
New York Américan
Woman robbed on streetcar headline draws skepticism
Mrs Grigson notes a morning paper report about a woman robbed on a streetcar in broad daylight and a thief who got away. Mr Grigson questions the story as a possible typographical error or invention citing a $100 purse and a $5 hat receipt as unlikely details.
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Jasper
Opie Read recalls traveling critic praise and Arkansas reading scene
The Cincinnati Inquirer recounts Opie Read recalling a landlord who loaned his book to a reader unable to read, his wife reading aloud, and the farmer’s reaction that the story felt old and familiar after forty years of hearing similar talk.
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Opie Read
Arkansas
Trello
Jason
Cincinnat! Inquirer
Love and the Laundry
Fragmented dialogue hints at romance and domestic conflict. Characters Agnes and Jane appear, with misread phrases suggesting a family dispute over relationships and propriety in a home setting. The scene tones a clash between affection and social expectations.
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H. T
Benne & Seaman Company
Irrigon
Seaman
Mission Band of the Baptist Church
St. Peter's Church
R. W. Logan
Mot Lake
Jay Dobbin
Smith & Greene Shoemen
F. L. Meyers
Goethe
Hamlet
the. Hessians
Liberty Bell
Jane
Hove
Agnes
Clints van Fleet
Cook
Inquire Observer
Ave
L. C. Smith
Holland
Boston
Pattison Bros
Wired
Oregon Light and Power Company
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