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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1910
Page
5
A humorous piece about Johnnie’s bantam hens and a goose egg marked for attention. It extols store virtue, urging honesty, industriousness, cheerfulness, and teamwork among staff. It ends by inviting readers to try on Hart Schaffner and Marx suits.
Baker City transactor C E Porter and Spokane traveler G B Mann journeyed to La Grande on business. Wallowa officials and Portland visitors scroll through town for meetings, concerts, and trials as pastors plan services and state officials join teachers in a regional session.
Mrs. A. J. Conkila of Covele is in the city today visiting friends. Joe King, son of Rev and Mrs. C. H. King, now living in Everett, is also in town visiting old friends during a trip connected to his tea and coffee house work in Northern Washington.
Mrs. Claude Braden from Perry visited relatives here last weekend. Funeral services for Mrs. D. W. Johnson drew many local mourners. The Butchers baseball team, all from La Grande, played here but were defeated by the Ladd Canyoners due to overpractice. A Thompson resident at upper Ladd Canyon is at Hot Lake with a brain abscess and may not recover. Wendell [hl, Sr.] sold his farm to Fuller. the Thii family plans another nearby farm for the summer. A band dance drew good crowds and another is hoped for soon.
The 1909-10 school term nears its end with examinations starting Monday. Commencement Week begins next Sunday with a baccalaureate address at Central Church of Christ by Rev. Ford Bills, followed by graduation exercises Friday night at the S. D. 8 Tabernacle with Attorney C. B. Cochran delivering the address. Twenty six students will receive diplomas as the class reflects strong activity across academics and athletics. Pete Beaver, Q R N passenger engineer, returned to Baker after a trip to Mormon Basin, his auto damaging a wheel on an unseen stump, though not ending his journey.
The readable portions mention medicines aiding illnesses and a cough remedy, suggesting claims of remedy effects but the text is garbled with incomplete words and unclear details about effectiveness and side effects. No clear events, dates, or named entities emerge to identify a specific article.
Dr Mendlesohn located at 1105 Adams Avenue opposite the post office offers deep curve lenses with a wider field and clearer vision. One charge covers examination glasses and frames. broken lenses replaced while you wait. endorsements from Portland oculists and La Grande physicians. hours 9 to 12 and 1 to 5 with evening appointments.
State Superintendent Ackerman, who spoke at Elgin last night, is in the city this afternoon en route to Union tonight to address two classes of graduates. He will return tomorrow morning to remain through the day.
The Sierra Club of San Francisco received permission to name a giant tree in Muir Woods National Park after Gifford Pinchot. The approval follows many refusals for naming living men with one other exception, a tree in Yosemite Valley named Theodore Roosevelt.
A fragment notes a patent remedy named Atomaely sun sneer Ba and mentions relief from chronic constipation. The text also references health issues including dizziness and dyspepsia and includes scattered names like Wendel and Wilcotts without clear context.
Pirates pitchers Leever and Phillippe volunteered to start when rain and poor conditions hit St Louis. Leever won as captain Fred Clarke protected Adams and Oanis from life altering risk. The narrative frames a Civil War era guerrilla war picture airing at the Tsis theater.
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