Government Offers Rewards for Mail Robbery and Embezzlement
The government lays out rewards for tampering with mail bags and post offices nationwide. A $1000 reward is offered for arrest and conviction of any person robbing a mail car, with higher penalties for armed hold ups. Smaller rewards cover other offenses such as embezzlement and breaking post boxes. The program bars postal employees from claiming rewards and takes effect immediately.
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Uncle Sam
Informa Hon
Congress
Postal Department
Oregon Weather and Crop Report Highlights
No significant rainfall and light frost touched bottom lands in the south. Wheat and barley yields shine in the Columbia and Grande Ronde valleys, while Willamette and southern Oregon report below average yields. Harvest readiness rises as corn and hops need rain, onions are pulled, late potatoes and gardens suffer from dryness. Pears ripe, apples small, dairy cattle fair. milk supply shows decline in dairy districts. A B Wollacher, acting Director.
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Sinai Ia
Oregon
Cascade Mountains
Columbia
Grande Ronde
Willamette Valley
Hope
B Wollacher
Conductor Dies Aboard Sumpter Valley Train
Baker City reports conductor E M Ford died suddenly while in charge of a Sumpter Valley Railway train between Whitney and Tipton. He had complained of chest pain, collapsed in a box car, with brakemen nearby. Survived by wife and two children. formerly a brakeman on the OR and B from La Grande.
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Baker City
E M Ford
Sumpter Valley Railway
Whitney
Tipton
Fori
Mogaletly
Ariting
OR & B
la Grande
First Annual Coyote Drive Proposed in Washtucva
The Enterprise reports plans to organize a coyote drive in Washtucva for October. The event invites all who wish to participate and will announce definite details later. It aims to curb the gray vermin said to menace sheep and poultry, with a statewide bounty of 1 dollar per scalp.
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Washtucva
Atate
Sacred Heart Academy La Grande Oregon Notice
Sacred Heart Academy La Grande Oregon run by the sisters of St Francie offers classical literary and scientific courses plus music drawing and painting. It prepares young ladies for teaching. Classes resume September 5. For terms and details, address.
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Sisters of St. Francie
County Board of Equalization Meeting Notice
Notice announces the Union county Board of Equalization will meet at the county clerk’s office in the La Grande courthouse on Monday September 25 1905 and continue for six days. Dated La Grande Oregon September 1905. J H Morton Assessor for Union county
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Board of Equalization
la Grande
Oregon
J H Morton
Anoeaeor
Union County
Notice of Wood Purchase and Local Tonics Ad
Take notice that Phone Red 971 at Vid Town store offers wood for sale with a 30 day time limit. Cheapest groceries and provisions in the city advertise new stock. An ailing health tonic from Hollister’s Blocky Mountain claims to regulate kidneys, stimulate liver, cleanse blood with 35 ros Tenor Tablets from Newlin Drog.
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la Grande
Daly
Hollister
Newlin
Incredible Bravery A Father Heals His Son’s Eye
Lemberger of Syracuse N Y recounts applying Backlen’s Arnica Salve to his son’s eye to stop fearfolgue and save the eye. The salve is praised for burns as well and advertised at Nowlin Drug Co. at 250.
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F Lemberger
Syracuse
Nowlin Drug Co
Remedy Claim for Stomach and Liver Tablets
J P Klote of Edipa Mo endorses Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as superior for stomach trouble biliousness and constipation. For sale by Newlin Drug Co.
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Chamberlain
J P Klote
Edipa Mo
Newlin Drag Co
Startling Mortality Statistica Promotes Dr King's Pills
A fragment touts Dr King's New Life Pills from M Flannery of Chicago as a cure for ven atipation and biliousness. It claims the pills prevent and cure debilitating conditions, with 250 sold at Newlin Drug Co.
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Dr. King
M Flannery
Custom House Place
Chicago
Newlin Drug Co. Druggtet
LMARS La Grande Newsline Mentions Work Price
A brief item from LMARS in La Grande notes a line naming work and references a price under section 1(f). The exact details and context are sparse in the readable fragment.
Notice for Publicaiton of Land Claim in Louisiana and Oregon
Notice announces publication of a land claim proceeding under the Department of the Interior Land Office. It lists witnesses and involved parties including Burnett, J F, Malden, Lizasey, and RW Davis as registrar. The notice requests publication before dates in August and October and mentions the Grande region.
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Department OF the Interior
Land Office
U. S
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J. Fi. Peare
Cove
la Grande Investment Co
la Grande, Oregon
F. D. Haisten
Oregon Produce CO
Timothy Hay
Oregon Produce Company
Henry & Carr
Funeral Directors
Mistart
J. Henry
J. J. Carr
Coyote
Harrie Meat Market North
Harris Meat Market
Brooks & Rohr
Sacred Heart Academy
Lmars
la Grande, Or
M‘kinnis Brosi
Vergere Phone
Summerville
W. H. Bohnenkamp
E M Wellman & CO
The
Eastern Oregon Agricultural Association
Ridera
Fred* J. Holmes
Association
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