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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1911
Page
5
A highly noted vocal solo titled Lonesome is performed by Miss Nalli Garrick in a special concert setting. The Trombone Orchestra provides accompaniment as the artist delivers a plaintive, emotive ballad.
Locals note Wright Drug company will discontinue handling cut glass hand painted china and brassware closing out these lines regardless of cost. Savoy hotel offers summer rate with finest rooms in the city after May 1 and good service.
Our silk sales are brisk with a sale price of 35 cents per yard. The note mentions various silk lines and the need to reflect current stock levels, indicating strong demand yet a push to move inventory.
Classified ads show goods from The Golden Rose company and N K West pricing remnants at 50c per foot. Job seekers seek steady work in town or country. Churches host a June 1 dinner. A plank walk to the new Ameri can Express office progresses. Track team heads to state prelims in Eugene. tryouts to post results. Richer building foundation underway. Elks building gets fresh paint. Foley hotel owner buys a 40 horsepower Marian car for the community.
The Kaffee Klatch will meet tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. Robert Ewlin according to the notice.
OOOHD 90004 personals list B F Engle and wife of Walla Walla as guests at the Sommer EK 8 Givens a Seattle fruit man is at the Sommer Attorney J F Baker in Yale on legal matters for a day or two S D Pledler Portland commercial man stops at the Sommer this afternoon F H Orr of New York a figure in The Thrift at Steward tonight is at the Foley Alf Peouck Seattle physician stays at the Sommer while abroad
Local visitors and business figures pass through La Grande staying at the Foley Hotel. J 5 McGaughey of Bolas for American Tobacco attends Foley events while N Seeman and attorney J D Slater conduct matters. Various Portland and regional guests including Miss Ella Copeland and Miss Marjorie Silverthorne, plus E L Gamble and others, mingle as travel and legal business move through town.
A club misfortune in Pall Mall centers on Ruskin and the famed Bere. A gentleman recalls Ruskin fleeing a lakeside scene and hiding near a wood, prompted by word of a rumored melancholy incident. The anecdote comes from Collections and Rec ollections.
London dispatch notes growing anxiety over the pope as a Rome correspondent reports he displays symptoms of senile decay.
By docketing the appeal from a Washington federal court order quashing the Stracy group indictments, the clash over possibly the richest coal lands in Alaska moved to the United States Supreme Court. The Seattle federal judge had ruled on the matter recently.
Hansford rules the claimants are not guilty of fraud as alleged in the Iniletments case.
Attendees at the state railway commission rate hearing indicate Kennewick is favored while discussing Town of Benefit ff Distributive Rates in Walla Walla and Tacoma. The session on May 11 is viewed as signaling the commission's attitude toward one city.
Intervening in the Tacoma Seattle rate case, the commission told B Grossieup that Kennewick will be taken care of if the commission determines that North Yakima and Walla Walla are entitled to distributive rates.
Five men were killed in an early morning explosion at the Boston colliery of the Delaware Hudson company near Kingston Pennsylvania. The incident occurred near Beranton on May 11.
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