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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1911
Page
5
Miss Nellie Garrick will perform the song We've Kept the Golden Rule. The event highlights a morale program and features a vocal solo for the audience.
Local brief items announce a twelve box sale of Take One Shoe Polish at 10 cents each with a free fountain pen, Portland hotels offering rooms and board, a drug company guarantee for chillblains, refund policy on prior purchases, Masonic work tonight, employment for a housebound woman, a Chicago employment ad, and a public sale by Dol Woodall at his farm north of La Grande with livestock and equipment details.
Elgin notices show Jas Halgarth and J M Shropshire stopping at Foley and Savoy hotels. Registered guests include F L Johnson of Frisco Celia Morton and Mrs J R Kooch of Wallowa and E L Falkenberg of St Louis. Local business, lodging traffic, and upcoming events at Kamela and Pendleton area noted.
A fairy in a Clifton B. Dowd tale visits a struggling farmer. She first turns his plow to gold, then learns wealth does not ease misery. The farmer laments his heavy tool until the plow becomes wood and iron again, leaving him no richer.
Classified fragment shows notices for city scavenger services loan request rent offers and household help. Listings include request for security property address observer furnished rooms telecast Pleas ant Valley Ore and inquiries at local banks and factories. Contains lost gold watch with initials H D B and reward offered.
A Chicago News excerpt recalls a recruiting sergeant on Cannon Street who quips about preferring married men, claiming they require less training because they supposedly obey more readily. The exchange highlights attitudes toward enlistment in wartime recruiting.
A wife pleads she has nothing to wear and the husband evasively offers a dark theater outing. The exchange highlights a cold dynamic as they debate an evening plan.
An advertisement touts HYOMEI made from Australian eucalyptus as a cure for catarrh and respiratory ailments. It claims the inhaler kills germs and heals inflamed membranes and offers a guarantee or money back. Complete outfit priced at 1.00 with extra bottles 0.50, sold by Newlin Drug Co. and other druggists.
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