Ad Rates and Labor Projections Stated in Miscellaneous Column
A fragment from a La Grande Oregon paper discusses advertising rates and column notices. It quotes figures from Sunset Magazine on steel usage by Baltimore and San Francisco, and estimates massive wages for bricklayers hodcarriers carpenters plumbers plasterers laborers and superintendents in a large building project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunset Magazine
Baltimore
San Francisco
Hodcarriers
Foramen
Jewish Festival of Succoth Observed Across Homes and Synagogues
The festival marks seven days of prayer and rejoicing during Hoshana Rabba with readings from Koheleth and the use of succahs built from leaves or branches. Families join in decorating the sukkah, sharing meals if weather permits, and many in New York build succahs in yards or on rooftops with neighbors pooling resources. the poor join synagogues for shelter and partaking in Kiddush.
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New York
Osler's Mother Reaches Century in Toronto
The hundred year old mother of Dr. Osler is living in Toronto and described as bright and spry. The brief notes her longevity as a possible mockery of her son's medical theories.
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Dr. Osler
Toronto
Valley Drive Promises Quick Cure for Blues
An afternoon in the valley bursts with prosperity. Musdreds of towering haystacks red apples beets sugar fields fat cattle and packed grain bags suggest renewed hope and relief from gloom. The scene offers a tonic of renewal and economic vigor for all who look.
Roosevalt Speech Printed in Simplified Spelling
Copies of President Roosevalt's Harrisburg address sent to daily papers appeared in simplified spelling. An Eastern paper notes only six words differed out of about 8600 in the speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevalt
Harrisburg
Methodist Revival Meetings Planned Across La Grande District
La Grande district pastors approve a series of revival meetings at local churches starting October 20 with Elgin led by Hixon Dressler Deal Meredith. November visits Cove Grove and Union, followed by December Union protracted meetings and January La Grande two week sessions.
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la Grande
Grande Ronde
Meredith
Revereands Hixon
Elgin
Dressler
Cove
Deal
Union
Thes City
Gove
Gunther's Confections Promised Pure Quality
An old promotional piece extols Gunther's as the best Caney candy purveyors. It boasts purity and perfection in sweets, claiming thirty six years at the head of local confectioners with the motto an ounce of gods for every ounce of adulteration. Newsn Dry Co. 40 steps east of Post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gunther
Gunther's
Newsn Dry Co
Post Offce
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the City Grocery and Bakery
E. Polack, Propr
Milton
Oregon
Phone Main
Oregon Produce Company
Geo. T
B. Simmons, See
Mgr
Parr, Presiden
Parr-Simmons Company
Grande Ronde Valley
Jefferson Ave
Greenwood St
van Burens
Schegrer
Excelsior
la Grande Evening Observer
JUST
F. D. Haisten
Adams
H. B. Haisten
John Palmer Prep
Adams Anense
Greenwood
Romadka
H. Bohnfnkamp
Crockery
Moresco
Walrus
A. T. Hill
the Eastern Oregon Trust and Savings Bank
Tures
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