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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1905
Page
4
A garbled classifieds page lists lost items including a dark bay Shetland pony and a gold watch chain with silver charm, plus various wants and sales such as a competent maid, a new baby carriage, a dairy cow, a furnished house, and rental inquiries. Rewards offered for return of items.
FOR RENT Two fine housekeeping rooms 16 ft square On first floor four blocks W of Post Office on ard of G H POWERS is FOR BASE The jeep and buildings now bringing $5000 per month rent in La Grande only $3000 Harry GH POWERS Slater Block FOR RENT Four fiue large anforniah ed rooms suitable for office or house keeping Inquire of Mrs b Sommer at Mre N Helley's FOR SALE Seven roomed house corner Adams Avenue and Oak Inquire of R P Tait of phone 1413 d3
The record details numerous road district expenditures and labor bills including work on roads 23 26 20 4 47 18 14 and 12 plus lumber purchases from Grande Ronde and Plumonstine Brown for road projects. Also lists pauper boarding stamps telegraphing and court ordered transportation and furniture expenses.
Panama report from June 27 notes W E Woodbury editor of the Star and Herald died that night in Panama from yellow fever.
Weekly list of unclaimed letters ending June 22 1905 includes Adams Emma Aldrich Baker G K Qanady Miss Florence Finch Hayden MO Howard Boott Johnson Geo McClure Harry Moore Maud Smith Emma Swanson Andrews Cummings Lottie Herman Lippincots Boott Joba Names appear with many variations. Letters held 14 days then sent to dead letter office and must be claimed if called.
All persons are forbidden to cash checks No 343 drawn by J D McKennon on Farmers & Traders National Bank of La Grande for 51 75 No 1441 drawn by JT Fyler on Flyet National of Boxer City for 3 Eight drafts No 4721 drawn by Ever ding & Ferrell of Portland for 230 These instruments were drawn for Summerville Creamery Association and lost in the mail between Summerville and La Grande on June 12 1905 Bommerville Creamery Association by Wm Uhoate treasurer
Tickets may be secured at Belfer’s dandy store Coffey’s barber shop Thorne’s grocery and Monroe’s grocery as announced for the upcoming JV Coombs lecture.
Report from Westmoreland Kansas dated May 5 1902 claims Ballard Snow Liniment Co cures stubborn sores that resisted prior treatment. A woman from Willansville Pennsylvania is said to have been advised to try a 50 cent bottle for a sore feared as cancer.
A garbled passage cites Colson of Masonville and mentions Blind Bleeding Itching and Protrading Filet. Hacklen's Arated Bive appears with unclear health claims. A reference to Newlin Drag Co and Gruggista ends the fragment.
A 1902 testimonial from Gibson City says a back pain eased after using Ballard's Snow Liniment. The writer reports severe stiffness and inability to bend, improving after a single bottle, noted in the Oleson Gibson City notices.
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