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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1906
Page
5
A store advertises dresses and house wear including gowns in many colors and sizes. Prices range from 60 cents to 12 dollars for gowns and from 1 to 1.56 dollars for warm fleece wrappers, highlighting quality fabrics and comfortable designs for house wear.
Flimsy face and exquisite evening silks feature delicate waists from $5.00 to $12.50. Describes styles suited for the careful dresser and average woman seeking bewitching evening wear.
Siegrist and Co claim to have 400 filme watches at wholesale prices and Herman Siegrist reports 700 Waltham Elgin watches bought in San Francisco with some sent here for sale. Also an ad by J. L. Mars offering gravel or sand hauling at $4 daily for five loads and higher rates for 6 500 pounds or more per load along a one mile road.
Miss Nina Hunstod announces watercolor and china painting lessons for ladies in La Grande. Studio located at 906 Main Street.
J M Glark offers milch cows for sale three quarters of a mile south of the Masonic cemetery in La Grande Oregon. Contact via phone Black 18 Lock Box No 6. Also note Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea tablets 38 cents at Newlin Drug Co as a tonic for nerves and figure.
A cordial invitation to attend church activities at CRRA CHURCH. Includes details of morning worship by King, pastor, and activities such as a Wednesday missionary meeting and a monthly auxiliary, with study and evening programs listed.
City survey indicates Beaver Creek water project nears completion with field work this week weather permitting. A final cost report will be filed before the council presents the bond proposition to voters to fund domestic water supply.
The order of Fraterne Tributes will host an oyster social tomorrow night at their hall. Each member is expected to attend and bring a friend.
Tom Myers is dead and Hironimus is seriously wounded after a fight on North McKay in Pendleton. Authorities said the quarrel over horses led to both men firing. Myers shot twice at Hironimus, who answered with a shotgun wound to Myers. Hironimus is being taken for medical aid while Sheriff Blakely and Coroner Folsom head to Pendleton.
Frederick Pome roy, arraigned as assistant general traffic agent for the central railroad, was fined 1000 dollars on each of six counts. Judge Holt of the federal court imposed total fines of 100,800 dollars on the New York Central for granting rebates to the American Sugar Refining Company.
Ira Fancher who came from Boise ten days ago was ill with smallpox and walked the streets mingling with crowds a week ago Saturday. He is quarantined at his parents home in College Place and city health officials are watching for a possible epidemic due to his contact with shoppers.
Fire in San Francisco destroyed an uninsured stock of pianos valued at $75,000 in Kohler and Chase store rooms. Investigators attribute the blaze to smouldering debris from a previous site fire on April 20.
Lincoln on Oct 19 reports a federal grand jury indicted twenty seven people for fraudulent land entries and selling liquor to Indians. Names of the involved Nebraskans were withheld while the President orders a vigorous prosecution.
An old newspaper ad touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a top beautifier for city girls. It markets tea or tablets for 85 cents and urges readers to try the product from Newmie Drop Co and Newnim Drus Co with cheerful slogans.
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