The Electric Light Brings Convenience and Safety
The cost for wiring lamps and current is small compared with the convenience comfort and safety gained by using electric light.
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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1910
Page
7
The cost for wiring lamps and current is small compared with the convenience comfort and safety gained by using electric light.
New Electric Photo Studio opens in the Foley building offering postal card photos while you wait at 4 for 50 cents and stamp pictures at 25 for 26 cents. Room 7 ground floor. Chautauqua tickets now on sale at Bohnenkamp's store and held tickets should be collected from W. R. Jones, treasurer.
Rebekahs Crystal Lodge No. 50 meets each Tuesday evening at the I O O F hall. All visiting members are invited to attend. Mrs. Cora Fitzgerald N G Miss Susan McIlroy Sec.
Strawberries down to 15 cents a box with rising consumption as market stays well stocked. Sugar cash price six dollars eighty six per hundredweight beet sugar six twenty five. Vegetables list includes onions parsnips spinach peas asparagus celery lettuce radishes onions tomatoes potatoes. Meats show hogs finished at ten dollars per cwt cows six to seven cents veal four cents and poultry at thirteen cents.
Butter extra creamery and butter fat in Portland markets with prices listed for cream eggs and poultry. Barley wheat and millstuffs show producer prices and 1909 figures. Flour prices for new crop patents noted with regional references to Willamette valley and various grain products.
An Englishman who trained elephants in India returns to England and visits a circus with his grandson. A huge elephant recalls the man after years apart, lifting him with its trunk and placing him on its back to please the old trainer. The crowd learns of a remembered friendship.
Multiple small ads appear including five room house on Washington Avenue with contact Charles Disqua at City Meat Market, seven room modern house with eight lots and young orchard via Harl Zandel at Lavande National Bank, alfalfa hay at ten dollars a stack, loss noted of a locket to be left at Observer office, vanished room for gentlemen only with contact Red 052, hairdressing parlors at Mrs. Smith's millinery store, household goods for sale including furniture and kitchen items at 1307 Madison Ave, and room and board at 1617 Fourth Bt.
Adeline Genee argues lifelong rigorous training is essential for serious dancing. She contends natural talent is rare, dancers must develop core muscles, and athletic pastimes that overdevelop the upper body can hinder dancing.
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