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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1910
Page
3
James H. Kindred died at 5 p.m. yesterday at 1525 Z Avenue after a period of illness. He leaves a widow two sons and a daughter. Funeral services are planned for next Friday in this city.
A fragment from Smaled a Mouse features a bantering exchange on civilization with quotes about wisdom and a punchy line claiming gasoline as its foundation. The back and forth highlights satire and a cheeky test of cultural confidence.
Corundum is pure aluminium oxide and ranks with diamonds as a superior natural abrasive. Emery is a mix of corundum with magnetite or hematite. A lamp chimney tip suggests placing short rubber tubing on lamp burner spring posts to keep the chimney from falling off during transport.
Small ants move loads many times their weight while beetles shift heavy weights. A chart lists planetary densities: water 1, Mercury 8, Venus 6.14, Earth 5.50, Moon 8.84, Mars 4, Jupiter 1.95, Saturn 0.08, Uranus 1.69, Neptune 2.29.
The Bedouins eat camel flesh and slaughter a camel to honor a noted guest. Mohammedan peasants and poorer city dwellers in Jaffa and Gaza also eat camel meat. Camel skins are processed into rawhide for peasants shoes.
A restaurant keeper named Pye was prosecuted at the London sessions for obtaining pudding by fraud, the case presenting a modern example of deceptive food sales and criminal intent.
A striking caution about resilience suggests that despite extreme cold, life persists in unexpected forms such as fish, stored specimens, and caterpillars. The note blends a vivid image with a science flavored claim about survival under freezing conditions.
An iron electro magnet of good quality can be wound to carry fifty pounds per square inch of cross section, illustrating strong lifting capability and practical potential for heavy lifting tasks in industrial use.
The instrument can identify neon’s presence in a cube centimeter of air though its proportion is tiny, about one twenty-five thousandth of the atmosphere’s volume.
A young fruit or shade tree stunts when bark bound. A long perpendicular slit in the bark can release growth and let the tree resume its natural development.
The article notes Spain's climate with about 3,000 sunshine hours per year, compared to 1,400 hours in England. It highlights Spain as the sunniest country in Europe and contrasts it with England's lighter sun exposure.
The article notes there is no general capital punishment in Russia. It says murderers and traitors face penal servitude in the mines of Siberia, with execution only possible when tried by a military or naval court, in which case they are shot.
Cryst al Lodge No 60 meets every evening in the I C C F ball All visiting members invited Anna Alexander N G Jennie M Smith See
B P O E La Grande Lodge No 433 meets each Thursday evening at six o'clock in Bik's club corner of Depot Street and Washington Avenue Visiting brothers are cordially invited to attend Dr G L Biggers Ex Rul Hugh McCall Rec Sec
Red Cross Lodge No 27 invites Knights for Monday night gatherings in Castle hall formerly Mk's hall with a warm welcome for visiting Knights.
Woodmen of the World La Grande Lodge No. 169 W C W meets every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. All visiting members welcome.
The M W A La Grande Camp No 7703 invites visiting neighbors to attend weekly meetings every Monday in the ICCF hall during the month.
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