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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1911
Page
4
The article urges a shift from outside land booms to strengthening home communities. It argues for keeping capital at home to fund local improvements, schools, roads, farms, and a Commercial club to lead development. Emphasizes unity, cooperation, and prioritizing local welfare over national speculation.
Arcades program lists The Privateers Treasure a thrilling Gaumont scene reel with rugged scenery and tricky stunts. Who Gets the Order a Edison comedy follows with lively laughs. Two Fathers depicts a destitute father whose child is adopted by a wealthy friend. Mr Cowan sings Under the Wishing Tree.
In Chicago from May 11 to May 25 a child welfare exhibit displays a baby check room at the Coliseum entrance, emulating a creche system for urban infants. Volunteers speak many languages while talks by Mrs. Emmons Blaine and Miss Jane Addams introduce the exhibit and department heads explainers. Mrs. Harold McCormick funds the project, offering further support as needed.
Atlantic City May 17. Near ly all of the 868 delegates in the general assembly of the Presbyterian church have arrived for the opening of the foreign missionary conference. The assembly will elect a moderator amid few candidates. heresy charges against Dr Francis Brown and Dr William Adams Brown may arise after presbytery reports. The executive commission met to draft recommendations for board reorganizations.
Margaret Snell Club members choose Ruth Corbett of Corvallis as editor of the domestic science and art department for the Oregon Countryman monthly magazine. Helen Clark of Grants Pass and Helen Coughill of Baker City will assist on the Countryman staff.
Devendra Parayan Cuha, a special agricultural course student at O A C in Corvallis, Oregon, dies as the college reports the death on May 16. The article notes his home and enrollment details as part of the brief obituary.
Local fraternal groups list meeting times and contacts in La Grande Oregon. Masonic lodge numbers A F and A M Knights of Pythias Woodmen of the World and other orders invite visiting members to weekly or biweekly gatherings at designated halls and clubs.
Ronde Circle No. 47 holds its first annual meeting Thursday in the month. Members and visitors include Carrie Robbs G M Lizzie Ellsworth and others, with the lodge officer arrangements noted.
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