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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1911
Page
5
A fragment reports the Golden Rule company offering a complete line of new spring goods including lawn items and wash goods. Sale prices noted as 12 cents and 1 cent on some items. Details are sparse and not fully readable.
Classified snippet lists items for sale including tinning and plumethra tools, noting a special price of $8.50 and references to a fair offer. Mentions sales context without clear buyer details.
The article urges residents to assemble local advantages, remove obstacles, and promote growth. It stresses shared effort, advertising of assets, and decisive action to build prosperity, warning that inaction lets lethargy and fear win.
The La Grande team plans travel to Portland and Corvallis for the OAC meet next Sunday. Ray Gilmore promotes a strong company and a Steward attraction with advance production.
An Italian magazine quotes Swiss Ticino residents saying old inhabitants rarely recall petty thefts. Lost items should be left where dropped for owners to recover. An American tourist mislaid her purse on a Val Capriasca excursion. it was later found intact on leaves, untouched, and returned to her.
An old patent medicine advertisement promises to cure a cold in one day. It promotes laxative chromo quinine tablets and notes druggists will refund money if it fails. E. W. Grove’s signature appears on each box.
Toklo reports disastrous blaze on Hokkaido Island since May 9. Fears that towns and timberlands have been destroyed as communication fails. Relief expeditions are being organized after two days of no contact.
New York May 18. Greetings from President Roosevelt and other prominent figures open the Sunshine Society convention. The event gathers delegates from many states and will run through the week.
Southeri Presbyterian in Louisville opened its 10 day general assembly with large southern attendance. Retiring moderator Rev. W E Boggs of Atlanta preached the annual sermon. Reports show progress in membership and finances, with notable church growth in Oklahoma Texas Arkansas and Florida and increased home mission board activity handling 224600 in the year.
In Chicago the grain market faces a clash as dealers challenge May options practices. The action targets wheat bulle settlement moves, with May 1 cash settlements forcing about 11,000,000 bushels of paper oats to be settled.
Makers of cotton goods in Richmond host the fifteenth annual gathering of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association. President De Yo Cooper of Charlotte opened the event with the annual address as Mayor Richardson welcomed the visitors. Committee reports and talks on cotton management and mills followed, with plans to boost American cotton trade in China and an afternoon address by Arthur R. Marsh, president of the New York Cotton Exchange.
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