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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1906
Page
5
Real estate loan offers and property ads include 5 or 6 room unfurnished houses in La Grange area are sought. Listings for sale of household items, a first class organ, a jersey bull, and lost calves with rewards. Local notices cover piano tuning, Eagles and other fraternal lodge meetings, cemetery plot viewings, and church/civic group activities in La Grande Oregon with dates and contact points.
The Farmers and Traders National Bank of La Grande will hold its annual shareholders meeting at the bank in La Grande on Tuesday January 23 1906 from 10 a m to 2 p m to elect a board of directors for the coming year and address other business. J W Scaiga Cashier dated December 8 1905.
Cove Oregon presents a thriving economy beyond fruit, with cattle and dairy farming, hay and alfalfa, lumber, and stock stockyards supporting wealth. The town of Gove hosts a two story school, six teachers, multiple churches, a touring mill, saw mill, and small shops, all wired for electric lights.
Dr. Charles A. Eastman told the Presbyterian Woman's Board of Home Missions that Sioux women deserve respect for their spirituality as they aid in Christianizing their tribe. He noted women have faced temptations, including alcohol, and urged missionaries to steer reforms without erasing native strengths.
A historical note promotes mail order service from Davo Company offering distant customers access to up to date drug store goods. It guarantees satisfaction with refunds if not pleased and promises prompt handling with price guarantees and refunds of excess cash sent.
A Belle Plaine man recalls a friend who suffered a hand injury swelling with blood-poison symptoms and was saved after using Buck- Jan’s Arnica Salve. The ad touts the salve as best for burns and sores at 25 cents, available from Newlin's Drug Store.
Mrs. Grant Shy of Springfield VI says Aucklen's Arnica Salve cures cuts burns and sores and all eruptions. The Newsin Droo Co. guarantees it 25 cents.
An advertisement from La Grande Drug featuring its Reliable druggist in charge of the prescription department offers around the clock prescription delivery. Owner F. C. Fonses emphasizes expert graduate of pharmacy and 24 hour service with phone line Red 121.
A petition from prominent European statesmen editors and publicists asks President Roosevelt to pursue a concert of powers to secure public peace in the Ottoman Empire. James B. Raynolds presented the appeal prepared by M Berthelot ex Foreign Affairs secretary of France and signed by many distinguished Europeans. Roosevelt promised careful consideration and thanked the signers for their honor to America.
Louis Nixon, who built ten torpedo boats at a Black Sea port for Russia, arrived on the Kaiser Wilhelm II and said he finished contracts and will seek new work once Russia quiets. He spent four months in St Petersburg and plans to return there, noting the revolution in that city did not create much excitement locally.
The ladies of the M. E. Church will hold a rummage sale Friday and Saturday in the Haworth building on Pir street. Proceeds support church activities and community aid.
Ralph F. Fernandez of Tampa recounts a health crisis from liver and heart disease relieved by Electric Bitters after doctors and medicines failed. He says he felt better in three days and is now cured. Sold at Newlin's Drug.
A reader recalls the Mississippi once being a brook and credits long life and good health to Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea bought for 85 cents. The notice blends reminiscence with a consumer endorsement.
An analysis questions milk value by solids and water content and compares prices. It argues that solids determine value and shows how mixing water alters milk strength, urging consumers to consider real worth rather than price per quart.
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