This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1910
Page
7
The advertisement argues wiring costs are small compared with benefits of electricity. It claims a complete home wiring per room cost, low prices on lamps and appliances, and urges readers to visit the office or have a representative explain the advantages. It references neighbors already using electric light as justification.
A new Electric Photo Studio has opened in the Foley building and offers photos on postal cards four for 51c while you wait. Also available are stamp pictures at 25 for 25c. Call and see us in Room 3 on the ground floor.
Tickets are now available at Bohnenkamp's store for the Chautauqua event. Those who have engaged tickets should call for them. W. R. Jones serves as the treasurer and requests prompt contact.
Sugar cash price six fifty to six seventy five and beet sugar six twenty five. Oranges forty cents dot lemons fifty five bananas forty cents strawberries two for forty five cherries two and a quarter for twenty five gooseberries two quarts for twenty five. Hogs live weight ten dollars cwt cows two twelve to four veal four to four and one half mutton one half, chickens one eighty six. Butter extra creamery twenty eight cent, butter fat delivered Portland twenty seven and a half sour twenty six and a half eggs local candied select twenty three and two thirds. Poultry mixed chickens eighteen, fancy hens eighteen and a half, turkeys alive twenty and two, dressed two seven eight cents, pigeons squabs two fifty to three a dozen. Barley producers price nineteen, feet twenty five, rolled twenty five, brewing twenty four. Wheat nominal track club eighty eight and eight tenths, bluestem eighty eight and eight tenths. Willamette Valley price one cent. Millstuffs selling price bran nineteen fifty to twenty, middlings twenty to twenty and eight tenths, shorts twenty one to twenty one and a half, crop one ninety to twenty eight. Flour new crop patents five sixty five.
In a bedtime story a young Dutch child warns of a flooded land by discovering a leaking dike. He thumps the hole with his thumb to hold back water until his parents return with help. The tale praises his brave, quick decision and the community’s praise.
Woodmen of the World La Grande Lodge No 169 holds meetings every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. All visiting members are welcome. Officers Nery Ackles C C J H Keeney Clerk.
A block of short classified ads lists for sale houses and rooms on Washington Avenue and Seven Room modern houses with eight lots near La Grande National Bank, alfalfa hay stock, lost locket, furnished rooms, youth to sell Observer papers, old papers, Snodgrass properties in Old Town, hairdressing parlor sale, household goods, clean cotton rags, and manned dry cleaning services. Also requests for house furniture and suits cleaning.
The item lists a location at Central Room 23 in the La Grande National Bank Building with a contact phone number Black 8991.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.