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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1911
Page
6
Auto and Bicycle Garage offers repairs for Uuirellas phonographs sewing machines typewriters stoves and guns. It sharpens shears knives and hollow grounds skates and files saws. Also repairs granite walls makes keys fixes locks and sells flash lights with supplies. Located at 109 Fir Street phone Main 737.
R A Masterson advertises Black Orphington cockrels for sale and eggs in season at 1705 North Spruce Street. Also notes anti slip shoeing for horses and mentions Sunset Magazine feature about San Francisco with Tetrazzini singing. The W W Berry store is reported as packed.
A long line formed before 9 o'clock for the event with many attendees entering early. The Wright Drug Company promotes Prescription No 101 claiming rapid relief for chilblains and other ailments. The M B church women plan a cooked foods gate on Saturday Feb 4 in the former Van Duyne building. F 8 Bramwell, superintendent for Amalgamated Sugar, appears in Baker en route east on Number 6.
Dr Whiting from Elgin was in town last evening for personal calls and social visits.
Walla Walla Pendleton Weston and Athena aim to form a four town class D league. Pendleton and Weston officials join efforts with Walla Walla to secure approved Blue Mountain League play for spring. Local leaders praise past success and plan Weston meeting next week to finalize organization.
An old advertisement offers a home remedy promising to cure a cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. The box bears the signature of Druggist B. W. Groves and is priced at 25 cents with a money back claim if it fails.
Karl J. Stackland promotes Beurre De Anjou pear trees along with other pear varieties and a full line of apple and cherry trees. He notes Anjou pears pay well in the U S and claims to grow them to perfection.
Local firemen held a pig dinner last night in the hose house of City Hall. Chief Joe Jones led the event with the band La Grande providing music. Guests enjoyed a hearty meal and praised the evening as a season highlight.
Washington permits Special Disbursing Agent J C Hering of Yuma to pay duties on materials shipped into Mexico by check and via a third party to facilitate flood defense work on the Imperial Valley. The action uses American currency as Mexican dollars and overrides prohibitions to supervise exports, as much work occurs on Mexican soil due to Colorado River inundations.
Ten miles distant from his office and found it impracticable to make payments of Mexican customs duties in the colony of that nation.
Portland engineers plan to fill one of the world’s longest wooden railroad bridges over Sprague Gulch on the Spoken Portland and Seattle Railway west of Spokane. The project costs about 400000 dollars, uses 2500000 yards of earth, and will take two years or more to complete. A 100 acre tract near the site has been bought, shovels will load dirt into cars, and a concrete arch will channel water beneath the span.
An advertisement touts Parisian Sage as a hair nourisher from a leading scientist. It claims regular use prevents dandruff and scalp disease, stops itching instantly, and promotes hair growth.
An advertisement promotes a hair product praised for making hair lush and fluffy, marketed by Newlin Drug Co and druggists with a money back guarantee. It notes mail orders filled by Giroux Mfg Co of Buffalo New York and features a girl with auburn hair on each package.
London on January 31 reports Edward Mullus, charged with publishing an article that libels the King, will face the cage filing tomorrow in court.
A fine new buggy, priced around $100, has run less than 50 miles and is offered for sale. Inquiries directed to the Observer office.
For sale a nine room modern house with cement basement furnace hardwood floors two fireplaces on a 120 by 120 lot at the corner of Third and J street near the new high school Easy terms. Address Mrs BE W Bartlett 908 Third street 1328 Indiana.
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