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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
5
Readers note a flurry of travel and business movements as La Grande residents, visitors, and nearby townsmen journey to Portland Wallowa and Seattle. The piece lists numerous names with destinations including Perry, Long Beach, and Nampa, plus retirements, purchases, and local commerce.
Miss Mattle Scull, who is leaving for Nevada, was honored with a farewell supper hosted by her mother Mrs. R. B. Cunliff last evening. Dainty refreshments and games filled the evening as friends and relatives including Opal Graham Mabel Schofield Julia Carbine Mattie Scull Myra Hoff and others attended along with Leland Metcalf Archie Graham Everett Carbine Irwin Bramwell Thomas Carbine Clarence Stuka LeRoy Hoff and Archie Jordan of Kamela.
Birth recorded this morning to Mr and Mrs Thomas Whl Home in Salem. Mr Wilson proprietor of the Pas time theater plans a dark opening until Saturday to encourage public attendance at carnival attractions. Visitors arrive at Palmview. Bryan analyzes the Independence League platform and dictates a statement on its plank similarities to the moderate platform.
Clarence Painter died after a shotgun discharged during a hunting trip about 14 miles from Wallowa. A young woman and a boy witnessed the event. Painter died two hours later, buried Tuesday in Wallowa cemetery. In Freewater, Attorney J T Godwin plans a new news office behind J J Elam's bank. building to be concrete blocks, 20 by 22 feet.
An article extols a botanical health tonic centered on Golden Seal root and related herbs. It cites Dr. Pierce and Dr. Roberts Bartholow, describing digestive, circulatory, and respiratory benefits, claiming tonic power, improved appetite, and strengthened body vigor through herbal extracts and allied roots.
The readable text includes a mix of old notices, anecdotes and legal publication notices. It references a timber and stone claim by Blan Baker in La Grande Oregon with witnesses named, and Amanda Miller in Sioux Falls South Dakota with final proof dates and witnesses listed. The fragment also contains a notice header for public publication from the U S Land Office La Grande Oregon and earlier stray editorial lines.
An advertisement lists gasoline engines for pumping spraying sawing grinding and other tasks plus Fairbanks scales dynamos windmills grinders and more with liberal terms and prompt catalogue prices. Also notes a Notre Dame Lady's Appeal and dental services at La Grande Nations Bank Bullannery.
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