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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1906
Page
6
An advertisement claims Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea can transform any woman with the right brain power. It also markets Taw Or Tablets at 86 cents and promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills for constipation and blood poisoning with health claims and a 250 guarantee by Newsin Drug Co.
The undersigned is appointed administrator of the estate of Louisa Griffin deceased. All persons with claims against the estate must present them to the administrator or to attorney J. W. Ehalien within six months from the date hereof. Dated August 22, A. D. 1906.
The piece notes Theodore Roosevelt's forty seventh birthday on October 22 with broad praise. It recalls his birth at 28 East Twentieth Street and highlights the Roosevelt Home Club, family Dutch lineage, and ancestral service to the Continental Army.
Editor Ossenver recalls a 1906 Minam saloon incident near the confluence of the Minam and Wallowa rivers. A woman is seen at a gambling table inside the open-front dive, cursing and demanding liquor for herself and others while officials in Union County allegedly influenced approval. The piece hints at police protection and county complicity.
Carter digs a dry well on his farm west of Vale Oriana and reports depth beyond 800 feet with dry dirt still. He jokes he may strike a Chinaman's grave if he continues digging.
The W. H. Bohnenkamp Co. has received a car load of first class blacksmith coal, providing relief to the local manufacturing industry and easing the material strain on production in the community.
L G Smith shipped more train bicycles to the O R N company yesterday. The device meets approval of railroad authorities and the rapid purchases show they are practical and valued by the rail line.
A claim offers to locate timber on a yellow line this week for sixty dollars. Contact B. A. Gaary at 413 Adams Ave for service.
The ad claims beauty equals health and that 99 of 100 users gain it. It markets Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea and tablets for 35 cents through Newlin Drug Co.
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