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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1910
Page
5
Warners brand light weight drill apparel offers a comfortable cool option for hot weather. Brevity in undergarments and vests, with prices from 18c to 50c, plus a full stock of muslin wear. Also sells tents, camp stoves, hammocks, and a fireless cooker for convenient outdoor living.
Advertisement notes a program featuring The Face at the Window a biography segment and a Edison short Fortune Fool All On Account of the Laundry Mark plus a Good Night Moonlight song. Ladies receive beautiful dishes at the matinee with display in lobby.
Reports from Castle Rock and Gresham describe a baffling illness resembling acute anterior poliomyelitis. In Kelso a girl in the Carnine family recovers after medical care. two other children are ill and may be affected. In Rockwood Oregon William B. McLinn nears death as doctors battle the same mysterious disease.
J T Scott the music dealer returned from Portland after business. Mrs Shutt wife of the Joseph editor stayed at the Savoy in La Grande. A W Rinehart of Seattle visited. C R Beckley now in Boise, formerly eastern Oregon drummer, returned home after selling property. J E Robinson ex La Grande attorney, now sawmilling at Minam, visited. Colonel Cowgil formerly with Star reparting and Inland Herald spent the day. Mr and Mrs Alexander Ballance of Michigan City Indiana left after a week with Mrs J H Aikine.
Special report from Alice dated July 21 notes 1909 wheat received by Grande Ronde Grain Co. as the earliest to reach the Alice warehouse. The grade is excellent promising large flour production this year. Four carloads of sacks arrive for local distribution and elevators will fill rapidly.
Physicians across California and Oregon report poliomyelitis spreading with mystery. La Grande doctors are credited with naming the disease and clarifying its true name.
In La Grande July 21 the editor recalls Arlo Myers a nineteen year old student whose character and achievements in athletics debating and leadership inspired admiration. The tribute notes his modesty fairness and “live and let live” spirit making him a model both at home and in school and asks who will fill his place of influence. F B Moore.
Architect Newton C Gauntt supervising the project received a colored perspective of the new high school. The drawing shows the building prominently and at a favorable angle.
A reader recounts a mosque visit in Algiers where tile depictions of birds appear to show living birds. A local Mussulman explains the dark neck lines prove the birds are dead, claiming no violation of the Qur'an command. The piece discusses Islamic artistic ornament and the belief that life would be imposed on living images at judgment.
Civilians misunderstand military discipline and the rigid caste between officers and soldiers. The barrier, ingrained as a rule, governs social contact and penalties for officers who breach it. Enlistment or rising from the ranks removes the prohibition, keeping order and discipline intact.
A budding barrister struggles to define kinship in a courtroom exchange. A lively good lady explains that the defendant is her brother, but the lesson exposes mispronounced terms and tangled family ties.
A humorous piece mocks rain lore and weather forecasting with quirky observations. It notes rain on Sundays and whimsy in washing days, riffs on Noah and floods, and a joke about a birthday gift clock. The tone blends playful folklore and light sarcasm.
Dr. Henry van Dyke reflects that unhappiness stems from a craving for more than finite things and a deep human longing to unfold into a nobler life. He asserts that to do and be noble is the heart’s deepest desire.
Readers seeking happiness catch up with content that centers on fulfillment and well being. The message promotes steady gains through mindful choices and steady effort.
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