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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1907
Page
3
Parsons customers are urged to contact Mrs. W. A. Baker at 1590 Hill Street for first class dressmaking at reasonable rates. Fit guaranteed. The Real Estate Loan and Commercial Go markets property and offers selling services.
New York January 24 Two thousand six hundred guests attend the Old Guard reception and dance at Madison Square Garden. A midnight grand military march features the Old Guards band of two hundred players. Notable attendees from New York, Boston, New Haven, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Washington include 160 West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen.
Scripps News Association reports that among Southern Italians 26 percent, Poles 40 percent, Slavic 25 percent, and Hebrew immigrants 26 percent were illiterate, while 96 percent of Germans, 98 percent of Irish, and 99 percent of English could read and write upon arrival. Last year 275,000 came from Austria Hungary, 221,000 from Italy, and 184,000 from Russia, with 239,000 overall unable to read or write.
Mrs C A Peterson visited Friday with Mrs Willard Gouch and Mr Claude Braden, recently ill, is out again. The Ladd Canyon Literary Society will meet again Jan 25 after recess and program.
Classifieds announce sale of three full lots and a four room house with barn on Greenwood and Hill streets in La Grande Oregon. Also rental ads for furnished rooms and a five acre improved property near Island City. Stolen horse notice near Union seeks information leading to thief Joan Born offers fifty dollars reward.
Fraternal orders listed with meeting nights locations and invites. La Grande Lodge Nos 16 433 169 Woodmen of the World Red Cross Lodge 27 Rathbone Sisters Rowena Temple 9 Grand Lodge 4 A A M Rebekah Crystal Lodge 60 Modern Brotherhood of America all invite visiting members to attend at various halls and evenings.
An all white help notice seeks board and roomers at the Palmer House with reasonable rates. The terse ad signals racial exclusion consistent with era practices.
Dr C J Bishop of Agnew Michigan reports using Foley's Honey and Tar in three severe pneumonia cases with good results. The text claims no cold ever progressed to pneumonia when taken and urges refusing substitutes.
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