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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1910
Page
4
Internal record shows a masthead notice claiming editor and owner status with typographical artifacts and a mailing imprint indicating second class matter status. The fragment hints at a publication origin and filing details but lacks clear event or date context.
Thief paper states it will not publish articles under a nom de plume and signed articles may be revised at the editor’s discretion. Readers are urged to sign articles and preserve the appointed byline.
Joseph W. Folk, a Missouri reform governor, is welcomed by La Grande Chautauqua organizers and local business leaders. The Missourian, famed for challenging graft and rallying reform, will speak at the Chautauqua grounds tonight to a large Union county audience.
Dr Buchan spoke at Chautauqua grounds on New Zealand highlighting its government plan. He notes general appeal among individuals but slow spread and points out notable features even for critics.
Report of a late night park incident where Mr and Mrs B W Allen were severely injured after being thrown from a carryall. Emphasizes strict safety for horse drawn public conveyances, noting the need for adequate lighting and trained drivers at gatherings.
A fragment notes that ancestry and heritage are valued and that the Chautauqua association should be acknowledged for providing them. The wording suggests a call to preserve cultural offerings and support for community programs.
In 1870s San Francisco, Flood and Sherwood traded 1 000 Consolidated Virginia at 100 a share. Flood bought it back, claiming profits funded the Nevada block. Flood then bought 6 000 Union at 200 a share for a total of 1 000 000, with Sherwood noting profits funded the Union block.
A passenger rushes toward a platform seeking a reunion with an unnamed man. Gatekeeper Bill Gibson halts her for a ticket, then relents seeing her eagerness. She carries a brindle bulldog as she presses toward the train amid a nostalgic depot scene.
A conctioneer hawks an antique violin as a battered fiddle with storied pasts. A bidder offers thirty cents, and the crowd responds as the auctioneer proclaims the instrument sold. This Cleveland Plain Dealer quotation captures a gag about value, history, and theatrical bidding.
Jowarl, a tall slender plant resembling corn and millet grains, is the Abdali’s main crop. It needs little cultivation beyond weeding and regrows from roots after harvest. Abdali feeds the stalk to camels and eats the grain himself. Three crops yearly. Camel load about 125 pounds earns two rupees at Aden. A fair yearly yield is twenty camel loads.
A young lawyer announces himself as the representative of Tom Jones to collect a debt from Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith comments on the lawyer's early career and securing such a lasting position.
A man who had dined well but not wisely bought four tickets at a theater bus office for a farce in German. He settled in, grew worried, muttered about a strange experience, then left without a refund, claiming the last drink clouded his understanding and he would go home to bed.
In Sept 1060 Pepys notes mourning for King Charles' brother Duke of Gloucester. He mentions buying black stockings over silk ones and wearing a black cloth coat. The king wore purple mourning for his brother, and the eighteenth century saw a bleaching of signs of grief.
An old man at a temperance meeting jokes about moderation declaring he only drinks whisky on two occasions. He quips that he drinks when he has baggis for dimper and again when he has baggis for dinner, provoking laughter from the audience.
In Chicago the tall man declares the country needs bone and sinew while the short man adds grit and sand. The tall man reveals he is a butcher and the other explains he distributes strawberries from southern markets.
A reflective aphorism on the human mind noting it is slow to form but quick to act and slow in the making yet swift in execution. It speaks to nature and human cognition through paired contrasts.
The brief cartoon caption shows a child asking if he must attend school and a mother replying matter-of-factly while recounting a parental exchange with the father. This item captures mid century newspaper humor about schooling and child intellect.
At Cove Oregon the bank closes business June 30 1910 showing resources 35570.95 loans and discounts overdrafts secured and unsecured bonds securities, bank building and furniture total 46005.61 liabilities capital stock 15000 undivided profits 814.18 deposits 18789.17 time deposits 6296.81 notes payable 2000.00 totals 43303.61 G A Stock cashier swears the statement true before notary Samuel G White July 5 1910.
A quirky exchange from the New York Journal questions whether a party tale should read as social event or housecleaning display. The dialogue mocks journalistic style and the balance between revelry and cleanup action described.
A London Standard quip recalls a university professor who jokes that no new bones have appeared in the human body in the past decade when a student asks for newer anatomy works. The remark underscores enduring anatomy basics in medical education.
In a Boston Herald item a subject known as Griggs is described as a versatile man who can do anything. The piece notes his talent is paired with a fondness for boasting about his exploits.
A workman digging for a church foundation in Chico California uncovered a rotting chest with Spanish coins worth hundreds of dollars. The discovery began with a silver inlaid handle, then boards and finally ancient coins dated as early as 1574.
The Ladies Ald Society of the M E church will run a restaurant at the Chautauqua Grounds and requests church friends to donate meals supplies. Vegetables butter eggs and other foods may be left at the Blue Mountain creamery for proper handling. Also notice of street improvement in La Grande Oregon describes Sixth Street district 16 paving with Bitulithic planned and a 31984 dollar cost with a public hearing July 13 1910.
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