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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1910
Page
7
New York October 10 Open Electrical Show at Madison Square Garden claims to present the greatest electron position display in the country. The exhibit spans about 50 000 square feet over ten days and features numerous novel inventions. The event marks the fourth extension of the show in the big garden.
A global gathering represented by anti cruelty societies with President Taft as honorary president will focus on child protection for three days and animal welfare for the next three. A Humane exhibition at the U S National Museum features displays and warnings against cruel slaughter and bullfighting amid moving pictures deemed harmful to children. Orrine sells a supposed alcoholism cure with a money back guarantee and secret administration offered by a Washington supplier.
Local engineers welcome visitors from across the southeast as Birmingham decorates the city in honor of the convention. The gathering marks a festive day with civic pride and professional exchange.
Sugar cash price six seventy six, beet sugar six fifty six. New dry onions four cents per pound, green onions three bunches for ten cents, tomatoes ten cents per pound, new potatoes two cents per pound, cabbage four cents, corn twenty cents, green peppers fifteen cents. Oranges thirty to fifty cents per dozen, lemons forty five per dozen, cantaloupe ten to fifteen cents, peaches eighty cents to one dollar, grapes two pounds for twenty five cents. Hogs live weight nine cents per hundredweight, cows three and a half to four cents, veal four to four and a half, mutton four to five, chickens twelve cents, fries seventeen. Barley producers price rolled twenty six, brewing twenty five. Wheat thirty three per ton. Millstuffs brand twenty three, shorts twenty four. Hay alfalfa baled sixteen, timothy twenty, mixed eighteen. Flour high patent five sixty, family patent five twenty, straight four eighty. Butter extra creamery three fifty, store two two and a half to two four and a half. Butter fat delivered f. c. b. at Portland on cream eighty nine and a half, sour fifty. Eggs local candled thirty, twenty nine. Poultry mix chickens sixteen to eighteen cents, fancy nineteen, turkey alive twenty to twenty one, pigeons two fifty, dressed chickens one to two higher than alive. Barley producers price, nineteen ten, feed thirty three fifty, rolled twenty six sixty to twenty six eighty, brewing twenty six. Wheat No mine track club one eighty eight, bluestem ninety six, William Wesley ninety, Valley ninety seven. Millstuffs selling price bran twenty two, middling thirty, shorts thirty four, crop nineteen twenty six. Flour all crop patents nine sixty five.
Local listings show Palace Restaurant at 122 Depot Street offering meals at all hours with contact for Allen J. Webb and Lavon Zundell. The Grill Restaurant at 218 Depot St advertises open day and night with phone Main 72. Hotel Summers, led by GEO E. GOOD, offers American piano services and clean rooms at BISMARK Rooming House 1118 Jefferson Ave.
Col Roosevelt arrives in Hot Springs to a tumultuous ovation as a guest of the Arkansas State Fair. He will deliver an address and be lavishly entertained during his stay. The fair grounds once hosted a race track before gambling was banned by law.
The Supreme Court reconvened with Justice Hughes asking to be excused from a case tied to his former governor duties in New York involving the extradition of Frank Hoffstet. The proceedings highlighted issues of official action and proper procedure in extradition appeals.
Nine national societies join delegates in Boston for the fourteenth triennial national council of Congregational churches. The ten day session marks the centennial of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions with a large interdenominational celebration involving about fifty missionary groups from the U S Canada and Europe. Main sessions are in Tremont.
Temple congregants gather as Park Street Church and the new Old South Church open for overflew meetings. Hret general meeting follows preliminaries with Gov. Draper and Mayor Fitzgerald giving welcoming addresses. Church policy issues to be discussed amid sessions featuring Miss Katherine P Mitchell in education and oratory work.
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