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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1910
Page
7
The article argues electrical wiring costs are small per room compared with the benefits of safety and convenience. It promotes lamps, fixtures, and appliances at low prices and urges readers to consult a neighbor’s reason for using electric light before a representative visits.
A Boston Herald comic line questions a wife about her husband's past while she manages his present and frets about his future. The snippet reflects domestic humor in a 19th or early 20th century newspaper style.
A fragment from the Birmingham Age-Herald cites a sharp quip about domestic tension and explosive anger within marriage. The terse remark frames anger as a self-inflicted hazard rather than external provocation.
A collage of prices for commodities and foods including sugar beet flour butter eggs poultry and various vegetables and fruits. Specifics include sugar at 6 75 per unit beet sugar .2c onions 2c parsnips 2 1 2c spinach 3 lb for 25c fresh peas 1b for 25c asparagus 3 lb for 25c rhubarb 6c celery 1ve a bunch lettuce 2 for 1c radishes 3 for 10c green onions 5c a bunch tomatoes 40c per basket new potatoes 3 1b for 25c oranges 40c lemon 85c bananas 40c strawberries 20c meats hogs 10 per lb live cows 3 1 2 to 40 veal 4 to 4 1 2c mutton 6 1 2 chickens 12c 20c portland prices butter extra creamery 29 1 2c butter fat etc eggs 23 23 1 2c poultry mixed chickens 18 19c fancy hens 20c turkeys alive 20 21c dressed 27 28c pigeons 2 50 3 00 per doz dressed chickens 1 to 2c higher than alive barley producer price 1999 feed 23 rolled 25 brewing 24 millstuff selling prices bran 19 50 20 riddlings 29 80 shorts 21 1 2 21 50 exop 19 328 flour new crop patents 5 65
A fragmented ad style text promotes Abriain’s Cough Remedy as a relief for chronic constipation headache indigestion hoarseness throat tickling and cough. It reads like a vintage health tonics promotion with questions and assurance of satisfaction.
A crowded schedule lists Women of Woodcraft Grande Ronde Circle No 47 and several lodges meeting weekly or biweekly at the I O O F Hall Castle Hall and Odd Fellows venues. Visitors invited to attend with officers named. Cemetery plat noted at Model restaurant for reference.
For sale seven room modern house with eight lots and a young orchard. Inquire of Earl Zandel at the La Grande National Bank. FOR RENT Two small front rooms with electric light and bath. Inquire at a treat. WANTED Boy to sell observers on the streets. Apply to the residence manager of the Observer.
An old farmer sells twenty ducks to a dealer paying 30 shillings total, insisting on paying duck by duck. Also a notice for Woodmen of the World La Grande lodge No. 16 meeting on the second and fourth Tuesday at K of P Hall and the Corpe building.
Directory style listing shows physicians surgeons and specialists with offices at Adams Ave and Depot St Main 68 residence Main 0 G H Upton and others including George Zimmerman osteopath in Bommer Building Room 7. Additional entries include Dr Monceau teacher of music and Dr Riley with vaccination and dentistry services in Ohio State University background context.
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