Humphreys Enters race for city recorder post
C M Humphreys a former locomotive engineer with years in abstract and county offices announced he will run for city recorder at the December election. Supporters cite his records handling and Bancroft system changes as making the role demanding. Cox plans retirement after this term and may move to California.
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C. M. Humphreys
Humphreys
Humphrey
Argue
Cox
D. Ky Cox
California
Coxs
Nunivak Island Women Rule Island Life
Anthropologists report Nunivak Island Alaska women run major family and statewide affairs while men act as servants. Women wear trousers and skirts are unknown. With a near absence of children only seven births in ten years have halved the population to under 200, risking depopulation within twenty years.
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Washington
Nunivak Island
Alaska
Bering Sea
Sland
Sampson Funeral Held for Local Engineer Today
John Sampson born August 22 1863 in Keithsburg Illinois died October 31 1910 at his La Grande Oregon home. A machinist by trade he worked nine years as night machinist at O R and N shops. Funeral attended by Odd Fellows Woodmen and engineers orders. survived by wife Ella Barr and two daughters Lela and Fern.
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John Sampson
Odd Fellows and
Woodmen of America
Keithsburg
Ill
Jackson Avenue
Ella Barr
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Peoria
Orders of Odd Fellows
Order of Engineers
Lela
Fern
W. C. T. U. Meeting Set for Thursday Afternoon
The W C T U will meet tomorrow at 2 30 PM at 1892 Cedar street the home of Mrs Para Thornton. Important business will be transacted and all members are urged to attend.
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W. GT. U
Para Thornton
Cedar Street
Portland School Seeks Thanksgiving Gifts for Dependents
The Boys and Girls Aid Society of Oregon appeals through the Observer for Thanksgiving donations to support 496 children from 17 counties. Union County contributes 10 dollars monthly. society field agents visit home to ensure care, schooling, and safety, with plans to expand their force if funds permit.
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Portland
la Grande
Observer
Gardner
Istitution
State of
Oregon
Boys & Girls’ Aid Society of
Union County
Sanity hearing for Snead murder suspects in Newark
Mrs. Caroline Martin and her sister Mrs. Snead, indicted for the murder of Ocey Snead in East Orange, will be examined for sanity in Newark today. The sisters have shown serious mental disturbances while jailed, and a prior sister died in a Newark hospital after alleged self starvation. If found mentally afflicted, they may be sent to an asylum and the case dropped. The victim was a daughter of Mrs. Martin and the motive is linked to life insurance.
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Newark
N. J
Martin
Ocey Snead
Season Opens Nicely in Universally Sat Factory Opera
First comic opera in La Grande praised for high class production. Steward produced last night with an excellent chorus and entertaining features. The tramp and the semestress, seen previously in Cat and the Fiddle, appear again. Cow and the Moon recreates a popular style with fresh scenery and brisk pacing from curtain to finale.
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la Grande
Steward
Miss Marie Brehm to Speak in La Grande and at Church
Miss Marie C. Brehm of Chicago will lecture in La Grande on Sunday and again Thursday with talks at 7 30 p m on the street and 8 p m at Central Christian church. The ad offers information on the temperance question and invites readers to hear her.
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Marie C. Brehm
Chicago
la Grande
Central Christian Church
Young Man On Trial For Forgery At Palmer Mill
Thomas Deeds a Palmer mill employee was tried for forging a pay check in which he signed John Davis’s name on one of two checks issued for a day’s work. The company office error gave two checks and Deeds cashed the value before discovery. Vincent Palmer testified as complainant and Constable Faulk arrested him last night.
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Thomas Deeds
Palmer Mill
John Davis
Davis
Deeds
George Palmer Lumber Company
Vincent Palmer
Faulk
Parisian Sage Promises Hair Growth and Dandruff Cure
In Browstown Minnesota the Newlin Drug Co promotes Parisian Sage with a guarantee to stop hair loss and itching scalp within five weeks. An endorsement from Meta M. Kruger claims hair regrowth after typhoid fever, noting the product as a best hair beautifier priced at six cents a large bottle at Newlin Drug Co.
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Browstown
Minn
Observer
Newiln Drug Co
Meta M. Kruger
Browntown
Parisien Sage
Newlin Drug Co
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Robert Pattison
Gossard
Sara SA
Sampson
C. T. Darley
Darley
School For Dependents At
Snead Sanity Inquiry
New York
Caroline
Mrs. Snead
Ceevy W. M. Snead
East Orange
Theodore, Bell
Prohibtion Meeting
Dalton
Adams Ave
First
Annes
W. T
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