Fragmented OCR Item on Auction or Duty
Incomplete OCR text fragment mentions an action related to an auction or duty. Details are unreadable, unclear dates or names. Context suggests a local notice with limited legible content.
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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1908
Page
3
Incomplete OCR text fragment mentions an action related to an auction or duty. Details are unreadable, unclear dates or names. Context suggests a local notice with limited legible content.
Mild motion and pleasant taste make Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup especially recommended for women and children. It does not nauseate or gripe like many laxatives and aids digestion while stimulating the liver. Remember the name Orino and refuse substitutes. A. T. Hill, druggist.
The local option law district prohibits drug stores from selling liquor as saloons. Some druggists fear total option will harm those who wish to sell liquor from their stores. Judge Crawford recently fined a man 400 dollars plus costs for such an infractions.
Last year the corn crop reached a vast 2 563 792 000 bushels valued at 960 000 000 pounds. Secretary Wilson notes breweries used under 2 percent, equaling about 51 000 000 bushels, worth roughly 25 million dollars at 60 cents per bushel. About 50 million Americans equate to 27 cents per capita. Government income from whisky totaling 250 million last year contrasts with two billion spent on courts and crime control. The speaker condemns whisky’s social cost, calling for prohibition and denouncing whisky makers and their lodge allies as corrupt.
A fragment notes there are no saloons in Portland Maine and mentions a shopkeeper praising the absence as part of a broader Prohibition theme. The piece reflects on state saloon absence and the idea of a “guide to Prohibition” in Port land.
An unclear passage references Governor Cutler and Tah discussing temperance and frugality as means to prevent property loss. The text hints at a state topic about economic virtue and social conduct but details remain fragmentary.
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