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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1910
Page
2
Newlin Drug Co promotes HYOMEI with a 50 cent bottle for Hyomel inhaler owners and a $1 outfit with inhaler. The ad guarantees cure for catarrh with the product’s antiseptic relief and promises quick relief within a day. Oct 10-21-21
Grande Ronde Poultry Association plans its second annual show in La Grande from December 13 to 15. Miller Purvis editor of Poultry magazine has been secured to judge the exhibits, with George G. Wagener confirming the arrangement. Purvis is currently in Wendell Idaho and will travel to La Grande for the event.
Mahala Stockwell of Hannibal Missouri writes dated August 28 1910 praising Foley's Honey and Tar Cough medicine. She says she was ill with cold headache and cough and nearly pneumonia before using one bottle which cured her, declaring it the best remedy she ever used.
George Marshall reports that a well known Cayuse medicine man killed his wife on a hunting trip by using a powerful medicine while two female assistants aided. He says the suspect fled to the mountains but may return in days, and Marshall connects the case to previous killings and a daughter who died weeks ago.
Johnny's classroom ideas on bravery describe three types: boys who play with younger children, boys whose lego is too short to run away, and most boys who are brave because someone is watching. The quip captures humor about perception and risk.
In a lyrical exchange, a skeptic professes deep love, claiming life without her would be unbearable and asking if nature would halt its course. She questions the implied meaning as he reflects, unsure if his words matched her thoughts.
The magazine lampoons Nero with a line about fiddling to his heart’s content during Rome's turmoil. It mocks neighbors ignoring the anti-noise ordinance while a comic “Roman Washerwoman’s Jig” plays.
A humorous verse depicts a small lawyer blushing as he reads a deceased husband’s will and compliments the widow with a “nice fat legacy.” The next day he lies in bed bandaged, pondering his thoughtful remark.
An inveterate wit asks the captain how he gets a tower on the passage and the captain replies they always cook aboard. The wit quips about cooking a board and notes provisions on board this trip.
Readable text mentions an armed person and a jump but lacks coherent facts, names, places, or outcomes to identify a specific event or report.
An ill tempered reflection on reforming work as bounds are set. Parables compare social behavior to stage life and unconventionality. The piece notes pride, fairness, and civic effort, urging action without fuss while questioning genteel restraint and self image.
A collage of period verse and comic dialogue notes labor and derides ease as verses praise hard work and graft satire. A dialogue snippets include a detective line and a market scene with a new maid resigning. The Toledo Blade fragment closes the page.
A brief Washington Star entry notes choosing the term agriculture when correct and farming when incorrect, illustrating a language distinction in farming discourse. The item frames the quiz like decision criteria for terminology.
A Baltimore American item portrays a suitor asking for marriage, while the father retorts with a condition about supporting the daughter's dowry. The exchange frames a witty clash over financial obligations in a matrimonial courtship.
A Detroit Free Press note urges cheering the man who wins while stressing support for the brother in an uphill struggle. It highlights loud applause as encouragement.
A brief quotation note cites Cleveland Plain Dealer style remarks about someone described as as regular as a six day clock and looking run down on Sundays.
Osteopath physician Geo W Zimmerman listed with Summer Building offices and multiple phone lines. Successor to Dr C B Moore. Also notes Katherine P Mitchell as elocutionist with post graduate study and private and class instruction in elocution and English literature.
A local ad promotes a dermatological remedy described as a mild soothing liquid labeled D. D. prescription. It promises rapid itch relief and better sleep, urging trial bottles at 26 cents with a personal guarantee from The Newlin Drug Co.
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