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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1910
Page
6
The Riverside Park Association urges proper care and enforcement of park laws after rubbish was left at several picnic sites. The Observer notes ladies have spent effort improving the park and warns that arrests may follow if rule breaking continues.
A broken driving rod endangers a high speed passenger locomotive on Pickerel mountain. Engineer Lutz escapes injury and, clinging to the boiler, opens a steam valve to slow the runaway engine despite the roaring vapor and collapsing control.
A fragment from Thaddeus 8 in Harper's Weekly notes a near miss on a long train where one Wis Bien or injured passenger realized the danger only after it ended.
The second printed English work was The Game and Playe of the Chess with a title page dated 1473. Only twelve copies are known. Albhorne sold his copy in 1813 for $270, and another copy brought $2,150 in 1860. The British Museum, holding an imperfect copy missing seven leaves, has refused a $10,000 offer.
Dean Swift critiqued war time vernacular with terms like speculations and ambassadors, noting many became standard. He observed spellings such as mob as mobb and phizz with doubled consonants, arguing against clipping syllables as the owl fattened her mice.
The speaker requests that his daughter receive the comforts she is used to while affronted by the breakfast routine at the house. Sultor asserts prior meals and familiarity and hints at possible complaints about the coffee. He openly says he will report to the cook and dine at the club New York Journal.
The London Telegraph quotes Sykes recounting a humorous encounter with a lady barber who gave him a shaving cut. He describes the moment when their eyes met and she cut him, prompting a witty response about her being a rude yet skilled stylist.
A brief dialogue excerpt from Browning’s magazine features Nell expressing pity for Bess I and Bess I contemplating how others see her, while Nell consoles her with gentle insistence that perception differs from self-view.
In the Hoston Transcript a narrator remarks on lifelong friend Madde and Ethel who a moment ago exclaim Dear me and laugh at a woman who does not look a day over forty.
The cavern rat is bluish with white neck and feet and enormous colorless eyes. It thrives in caves, using extremely sensitive whiskers to navigate darkness. Its main food is a pale yellow cave cricket, and it remains blind in daylight.
The passage describes water lilies once thought to close at night and submerge, a claim challenged by John Ray in 1688. It notes the Waly of Zanzibar iris blue flower measures ten inches and has 150 to 200 golden stamens, opening between morning and afternoon and lasting four to five days, with some species blooming at night.
Harper's Weekly notes Elstow's Bunyan associations including the church tower bells and the famous wicket gate. It explains that the wicket gate in Pilgrim's Progress refers to a small doorway cut in a large door, concealed behind a tree at the west end of Elstow church.
The text presents a terse exchange about a mysterious map and a perceived conspiracy. One character asks about an object while another suggests an intended marriage and questions the involvement of a second person in the alleged plot.
A witty exchange questions culinary competence as a person is labeled a good cook in name only. The remark implies differing standards of expertise and stirs humor about household roles.
A dialogue features a question about Percy and a reply that he is an ornamental young person yet a plain fool. The exchange highlights a witty assessment of his character with concise humor.
The quote asserts that true goodness lies in justice temperance courage and freedom guiding a man while evil arises from the opposite dispositions. It emphasizes inner moral formation over external outcomes and timelessly links virtue to character.
A foreboding friend asks if the handwriting is seen while Senator Sorghum notes headlines in the newspapers suffice as warning. The Washington Star quotes the exchange highlighting media emphasis on current events shaping political sentiment.
The Cuhreuit Court of The State al Oregon Union County issues a summons for Ella L. Brownell to answer the complaint filed by KB. A. Brownell seeking a decree of dissolution of marriage and general relief. Publication in La Grande Evening Observer begins June 9, 1910, weekly for six weeks.
Public notice announces sealed bids for 870 feet of sewer in La Grande Oregon to be built per plans on file with the Recorder. Bid deadline is 4 pm July 6 1910 with 5 percent certified check. council reserves right to reject any bid.
Notice notes a Common Council plan to improve Jefferson Avenue in Improvement District No 17 with a 12 foot cement sidewalk at an estimated cost of 600 dollars. A public hearing on July 13, 1910 will address the cost levy and any grievances from property owners along the described bounds.
The council approves improvements for Spruce Street and related avenues from Madison to North Spruce along with alleys in Chaplin's Supplemental Addition and North Depot Street corridors. Estimated cost listed as 1775 079 20. D. E. Cox, Recorder, La Grande Oregon, June 22, 1914.
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