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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1905
Page
4
Advertised real estate bargains include multiple houses and vacant lots priced from cash deals to easy terms. Listings span North Street and surrounding area with 4 to 6 room homes, orchards, shaded lots, and several large parcels for sale. Some properties offer monthly payments, balance arrangements, and optional loans.
The January term records include tax cancellations for Geo Ball and Geo F toddard, hospital admissions for Adolph Peru and Dp Um Rame, road district petitions, and county furniture purchases for the new courthouse. Appointments of road district supervisors and a wool farm superintendent were made or continued. The board ordered advertising for bids, set a 35 mill tax levy, and listed numerous petty expenditures and court actions with ongoing continuations to the next term.
Reads like a historical state directory with officials and offices listed in scattered OCR, naming weather bureau, state printer, supreme judges, land board, internal revenue, district attorney, senator, representative, joint representative, and county officers including G Gilliam and D Slater alongside a contact space of page marks. The fragmentary text preserves named figures such as Chamberlain Danbar Moore Ackerman Whitney Crawford Mathews Denne Hall McLeod Jesay Dobbin and Slater with garbled spacing and line breaks.
Notice from the administrator of Angle A Wood, deceased, that the probate court has fixed February 1, 1906 at 2 PM in Union County Oregon for filing objections to the final account. The administrator is Ek Wright. Lost gloves between the Opera House and Corini and Adams Ave are to be returned to the office.
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