Wiring lamps and rent offer great cost savings
The notice extols the wire cost for wiring lamps and rent as exceedingly small, praising the convenience, comfort, and safety gained by using it.
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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1910
Page
7
National Memorial Planned for Old Black Mammy Statue
The Texas citizens group at Galveston to erect a national tribute to the old black mammy of the south plans a $1,000,000 monument. T J Groce leads the Galveston National Bank as chair. Col W L Moody and other Texas leaders back the project. Designers submit sculptural figures as a joint committee from southern states prepares the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Texas
Galveston
Hay
United States
T. J. Groce
Galveston National Bank
W. L. Moody
Chautauqua Tickets On Sale at Bohnenkamp's Store
Tickets for the Chautauqua event are now available at Bohnenkamp's store. W R Jones serves as treasurer and urges interested parties to secure the engaged tickets through the agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bohnenkamp
Eames
Cat
W. R. Jones
Treas
Market Quotations From Portland Markets
Sugar cash price Swear six seventy five beet sugar six twenty five vegetables dry onions two cents juiantpa two and a half cents spinach three pounds for twenty five cents fresh peas fifteen cents asparagus three pounds for two hundred half cents rhubarb five cents celery ten cents a bunch hot house lettuce two bunches for fifteen cents head lettuce ten cents radishes bunches for ten green onions five cents a bunch fresh Florida tomatoes ten cents new potatoes thirty one cents for twenty five cents fruit oranges forty cents dot lemons two sixty bananas forty cents strawberries two for a dime cherries two pounds for thirty five cents meat hogs live weight well finished ten dollars per hundredweight cows three and a half to four cents veal four to four and a half cents mutton a half cent. chickens one and a half cents Portland Markets butter extra creamery twenty nine sixty to twenty three butter fat delivered cream twenty seven and a half sour twenty five and a half eggs local candied select twenty three and a quarter to one three. poultry mixed chickens eighteen cents fancy hens eighteen and a half cents turkeys alive thirty cents per pound dressed twenty seven to twenty eight cents pigeons squabs two dollars fifty cents to three dollars per dozen dressed chickens one to two cents higher than alive barley producers price nineteen hundred nine feed twenty three dollars rolled twenty five brewing twenty four. wheat nominal red club eighty two blue stem eighty five eighty six Willamette valley eighty six. millstuffs selling price bran nineteen fifty to twenty. middlings twenty nine eighty to twenty nine eighty. shorts twenty one fifty to twenty one fifty. chop nineteen. flour new crop patents five sixty five.
Peary’s Arctic Camp Tents Prove Snow Proof in Field
The article describes Peary's canvas tents used in Arctic expeditions. It explains snow proof design, central support, and use of sledge runners as pegs. It details a musk ox skin wrap, sleeping arrangements, and a compact kitchen box with dual oil stoves for meals. The field routine aims for two daily meals and practical camp life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peary
Arctic
Commander Peary
Hampton's
Local Masonic Lodge Meeting Schedule and Officers
KW. A Grande camp No. 7703 meets Monday each month at I O. Fa neighbors are invited to attend. FRED B. CURREY, C JORDON, Clerk. on Hove i, b BO. BB, sold at- g¢ications the second of Wednesdays of each month, visiting members cordially invited. Pauline Lederice, W. M. Mary BH. Warnick, Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred B. Currey
C Jordon
Yeening
Elk's Club
Corner Depot St
Washington Ave
H. E. Coolidge
Hugh McCall
Rec
Hove i
Pauline Lederice
W. M. Mary
For Sale and Lost Notices From Local Observer
Classified items include For Sale alfalfa hay ten dollars while supplies last by J B Reynolds. Lost a locket with one side engraved, return to Observer office. Room and board available at 1617 Fourth St. W. Wanted boy to sell Observers on streets. Apply to cancellation manager. For sale old papers at Observer office. Seven room model house with eight lots and young orchard inquire Earl Zandel at La Grande National Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appy
the Observer
Young Orchard
Earl Zandel
la ‘Jrande National Bank
Snodgraes
Old Town
BH. W. Bartlett
Snodgrass
Period of Light Reserved for Work in Daya Meals
The text notes days growing short and meals eaten before dawn and after dusk, leaving the light period entirely for labor. It mentions travel lasting twenty-four hours without food, emphasizing extreme schedules and endurance during limited daylight.
Punctuate Lesson and Lodge Meeting Notice
A child explains punctuation by noting a hatpin after exclamations and a buttonhook after questions. Woodmen of the World La Grande lodge No 169 meets every second and fourth Tuesday evening in K of P Hall and the Corpe building. All visiting members welcome. Neri Ackles, C. J. Keeney, Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebekahs Crysadl Lodge No. 50
Cora Fitzgerald
N. G
Susan McIllroy
Red Cross Lodge No
Castle Hall
Old Eiksha'l
Wright. C
Woodmen of the World
la Grande Lodge No
W. GO
K. of P. Hall & the
Corpe
Neri Ackles
C. J. H. Keeney
Clork
Local Medical Listings and Studio Notices
Corner Adams Ave and Depot St lists Dr G M D Upton physician and surgeon with eye nose and throat focus in La Grande National Bank Building. Zimmerman Timmerman osteopath also listed with offices and phones. Dr F B Monee erla Caml piano teacher advertises lessons and music studio in Mahaffey area with Burrows court of music and Garten instruction for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams Ave
Depot St
Upton
la Grande National
Erla Caml
Pian
Pierre Deullet
Jose Conservatory
Dor
Burrows Court of Music
Mater Garten
Mahaffey Mids
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C. B
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Maxwell
Maxwell Briscoe
Briscoe
J.B. Whiteman & Son
Elm Street
Weets
Modern Contectionery Co
Mira
Portland, Oregon
OF the
LA Grande
A. F
A. M. ‘la Grande Lodge No. 41
Hodgin
W. M. Co. Williams
Women of Woodcraft ‘Grande Ronde Gircle No
Sven
Welcoem
Chloe Robinson
G. N. Lizzin Blisworth
Rge Grout
LO. C
Coolidgs
Worstell
Scrite
Washington Avenue
Chas
J. EB. Reynolds
Fourth St
Closen Og the Red
Observer
Miss Blanch Clark
Madison Ava
Observer Office
A. C. Hagan
Monroe Avenue
Chamberlain
Professional Directory
BaOohk
Hal Omee
T. Bacon
M. K. Hall
DE. L. BH. Underwood
Richardson
Ove Hill
Ind
Main
C. H. Crawford
the Bank and
la Grande National Building
Orego
Chas.e. Cochran Gee T. G Cochran & Cochran
la Grande National Bank
la Grande Orepad
William Ke. Ramsey
DE. W. H. Riley
Ohio State University
Galle
National Live Stock Insurance
Adams Ava
Pacific
Black
J. C. Prior
Wilses
C. O. Wilson
Mgr
Joseph
Joseph Brand
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