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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1910
Page
5
Old papers offered at 25 cents each at The Observer office. Hotel rule and trespassing cards, houses for rent, and sale notices printed in red and black. Vacuum cleaning and sewing services advertised. L. F. Bilinger lists phone numbers for service requests.
Advertisements reveal room 34 Foley hotel exceptions and job notices as a cook and helper. Nate Ariey advertised as piano tuner and a call to Summerville Lumber Company for apple boxes and phones Farmers 4 X 2 Ind 21 A. Geddes Grocery promotes new coffee and health mush Rolled Rye with price 25¢ 40c. LW Beach and wife visited the city while Mr Bach of Summerville Lumber men arranged apple box supply for growers.
The column lists Mr. and Mrs B Bonham of Perry and Ford A Ellis with wife in All iel for a farmers meet. Mary Grady of Chicago visits W E Pruitt with reference to local events. George T Cochran reports strong support as water superintendent candidate. Notices announce Adams avenue improvement district and a $1800 estimated cost with a council hearing set for Oct 26 1910 in La Grande Oregon.
Dr Mendelsohn, permanent at 1105 Adams Ave Foley Hotel Building, advertises one charge for exam frames and glasses with no extra fees. 29 years practice, stocked with top lenses, guaranteed by endorsements from Pacific coast oculists and La Grande physicians. Broken glasses replaced while you wait. office hours 8:30 to 12, 1 to 5, and 7 to 8 p.m.
La Grande and surrounding buyers. G. and A. P. Conley of Cove are in the Poley today on business. John A. Rogers manager of Brus Front saloons in North Powder is in town for business. Earnest Thorsen who sold his Seattle property has gone to San Francisco for a few weeks. Frank Ralston family returns to La Grande from Ontario. L. E. McNabb Yeoman district organizer just returned from Elgin where he expects a homestead soon. J. M. Henderson and Mrs Ellen E. Henderson from Starbuck Wash arrived today on delayed No 18 to visit Mrs H. C. Grady.
Furniture dealer C. Be. Suydam presents a display of painted and stamped dinner sets in his show window and offers them at bargain prices for quick sale.
The Orrine Co offers Orrine as a scientific treatment to curb alcohol craving with a money back guarantee. Booklet on how to cure drunkenness available free. Sold in the city by Silverthorn's Family Drug store at 574 Orrine Building, Washington, D. C.
One red cow branded FP on left shoulder with a broken horn, one black steer with white face branded FP on left shoulder, and one Jersey cow branded T on left hip are now in the city pound.
In Everett on October 15, Ernest Winkley, 30, shot and killed his wife, wounded her sister Pearl Mayford, and made three suicide attempts. Found mortally wounded across his wife’s body, he had shot himself, swallowed poison, and slashed his wrist. Both likely to die.
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