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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1906
Page
5
Listing of notices and ads including a reward for a lost Masonic watch charm between an office and residence, an office address in Bohnenkamp Building, a used singer sewing machine for sale, and promotional lines for Roky Mountain Tea. Also contains references to Dr. N. K. Hall and M. E. Parsonage with generic sale and product lines.
An advertisement extols Holistar's Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets as the greatest curative agent for human suffering, urging readers to use the product as directed and noting its purported health benefits.
Mrs Grace Barrier seeks six table boarders at No 1808 4th Street for potential rental arrangements. For particulars call red 88 prompts.
Three figures tabulated on March 10 show county registered voters by precinct and political makeup at the county clerk's office. The piece notes a Republican plurality likely between 600 and 1000 if current registration trends hold, with a nonpartisan and Populist mix in the miscellaneous column.
Mrs. Jennie Duncan of Haynesville Maine at 70 credits Electric Bitters with curing 20 years of chronic dyspepsia and restoring strength. The ad touts Electric Bitters as a cure for stomach and liver diseases blood disorders general debility and bodily weakness sold with guarantee at Newm Drug Co s drug store for 50 cents.
The City of La Grande Oregon will hold its next regular meeting on the first Wednesday in April 1906 at which an ordinance to establish grades along Adamo Avenue from Fourth Street to Alder and on Pat 8th and Washington will be presented. Grade profiles are available for inspection at the City Engineer's office. Dated March 8 1906 La Grande Ore J R Snook City Recorder.
Reports of anti foreign riots prompt heightened defense around the American Legation in Peking. The fortresslike compound houses ministers and staff behind a masonry wall with an American fort on the nearby city wall. If needed, troops from Manila and two transports stand ready to deploy to Peking.
At Umatilla agency a council will discuss action against horses with mange. Major Edwards says strong effort will blot out the disease. Dipping will treat mild cases while hopeless ones will be destroyed. Federal inspectors oversee the plan ahead of spring round-up.
Paris March 12 Mr. Elliott F Shepard grandson of the late W H Vanderbilt was jailed today to serve a three month term for running down a girl with his automobile causing her death.
John Randolph Cooke and Mary Elizabeth Cooke, claimed as the nicher twins in the United States, mark their fiftieth birthday today in Seanton Pennsylvania.
William H. Moody, U S attorney general, attends rebuttal evidence in the Packers case and says he has no present plan to retire from the criminal proceedings. The item appears in a Chicago service note with additional unrelated ads.
Stockholders are summoned to a meeting of the local drug store’s ownership. The notice urges attendance to discuss corporate matters and potential decisions affecting the business and its customers.
New owners inform La Grande citizens of taking over Boss Meat Market from J Bull & Company. They pledge to merit former patronage and seek trade by promising best possible service and inviting trial orders.
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