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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1911
Page
5
Branch 1 at La Grande holds a business meeting on the first and third Tuesday nights. Propaganda meetings are on the second and fourth Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. at 106 Depot Street. Everybody invited.
Short items on Eye Ear Nose and Throat specialist services. Trixie Friganza oper at Boise for throat ailment. Snowflake Bakery serves hot coffee and meals. Newlin Book Stationery Co introduces cut glass and book titles. Prof Freenor magnetic healer promises results. Angus Stewart collects Hewitt accounts at Peare jewelry. Bayhan retires from Adams avenue forge James Garrity takes over shop. Steam and electric baths offered at home by Mrs C C Combs.
An old advertisement fragment lists contact numbers J A Oliver Grand Union Tea Co phone red 8231 and a store at 209 Fir Street with a date code 10-24-1f. The text is sparse but identifies a gasoline world reference and merchant contacts.
Rev. W. Seemann visited Elgin on business. Jack O’Neil from Portland passed through en route to Elgin. Glen Sharod of Wallowa transacted business in town. J. A. McGregor of Portland visited La Grande. C. A. Kinder of Walla Walla stopped at the Foley. J. H. Clatridge of Portland stayed at the Foley after arriving in La Grande. P. B. Sibley of Portland did business in town, also at the Foley. Ernest Garrell of Elgin improves after appendectomy at Grande Ronde hospital. H. Messenger, advance man for The Girl in the Taxi, in Steward on Oct 31, visited and stopped at the Foley. L. C. Pratt, injured in a sugar factory fall, is recovering. A daughter of S. R. Hiatt broke a leg yesterday. Dr. Molitor treated her and she rests well. Dr. Kirby of Elgin, recently injured, had his leg dressed and looks toward speedy recovery.
A West Side woman insists on filling the check stub before writing the check at a department store. Her companion urges haste, but she recalls her father’s advice to always complete the stub first to avoid mistakes and protect the family finances, claiming it helped maintain their bank account.
This ad promotes Bradley & Co offering a crew of plumbers steam and hot water fitters ready to handle remodeling heating and plumbing jobs. Visit or call at Elm Street phone Black 871 to unload troubles with reliable service.
Lord Lyons, veteran English minister to Washington and later ambassador to France, is praised for tact and discretion. A visitor once spoke loudly at the Paris embassy, prompting a sharp quip about discussing state secrets in the mameroom.
Hospital staff announce the Grande Ronde facility now possesses a new X ray coil machine. It is described as perfectly satisfactory and the best of its kind available, enhancing the institution's equipment and completeness.
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