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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1911
Page
4
Observer notes La Grande post office handling second class mail and records Dalby per month. It comments on a flaw in the Niles foundation that could destabilize the structure, praises winter-session travelers for diligence, and pledges to track each La Grande pupil’s progress toward making good.
The city proudly notes a strong group of students heading to state colleges this winter. Local public school efforts are recognized as laying solid groundwork with credits earned through daily hard work, integrity and sobriety guiding their path toward higher education.
Readers praise a proposal to buy sufficient ground near the city to assure a future race course. Several citizens express readiness to help, led by Abi Godseer ie God. Delaying endangers access within walking distance and growth, urging timely action.
Iowa county selects Judd Geer of Cove as fruit authority to judge exhibits at the county fair. His appointment underscores local trust in his knowledge of orchards and fruit quality.
A compact listing of historical events dated September 8 across years. It includes Ephraim Williams founder of Williams College killed in 1755, Col John Armstrong defeating Indians in 1756, Amherst becoming Canada governor in 1760, forts seized at Mackinaw and Green Bay in 1761, and various 19th and early 20th century incidents such as the Lady Elgin disaster and the Philadelphia cruiser launch.
A fragment notes the birth of French poet Frederic Mistral. The text appears cut mid-sentence with no clear event details or date. Additional context from the original article would be needed to confirm full facts.
Malillane Provence September 8 1830. Mistral studied at Avignon boarding school then Als for law before turning to literature. His chief achievement is a Provencal French dictionary after ten years of work. He leads a movement to preserve local languages and traditions.
A consul reports that German locksmithing rivals plumbing and barber trade in importance. He notes that the average house key weighs about one eighth of a pound and that Germans carry large iron keys, totaling millions of tons in circulation, shaping daily life and security practices.
The island of Madagascar features a coastal tropical malarious zone and a cooler high interior tableland. Natives on the coast are darker, while interior people are smaller lighter and more intelligent, and they govern the island. The island is about the size of France.
An exchange from the Chicago Tribune shows an excited author pleading for exploration of changing act order. The manager denies cutting content, suggesting only rearranging acts. Audience members express desire for the hero to die in the next act.
A concise aphorism from Plutarch urging contentment in wealth for usefulness, poverty for simplicity, and obscurity to avoid envy, framed as a lesson in virtue and social harmony. It emphasizes benevolence as the measure of happiness across circumstances.
The report surveys European and American labor conditions. Italian workshops see workers to eleven hours. the Piano Organ and Musical Instrument Workers' Union reports 238085 in sick and death benefits over seven years. Virginia cotton industry child employment is 70 percent and Alabama is five points lower. Hungary requires compulsory sickness insurance for all workers. industrial undertakings face $500 limits for certain machines.
The piece notes a Labor Tempe Association tag day to fund a labor temple, a Boston convention speaker urging five hours daily for five days weekly at one dollar per hour, and union news including W D Mahon reporting 60612 dollars in sick and death benefits, large bank withdrawals in Denver over mine ties, new umbrella handle makers union in New York, William Johnston elected International Machinists president over James O Connell, and San Francisco Stereotypers Electrotypers Union planning a 6000 dollar fund for the International Union delegates’ entertainment in San Francisco next fall.
At a banquet in Mineapolis attended by 300 progressive Republicans R M La Follette of Wisconsin was chosen as the logical nominee of the Republican Party for president.
A La Grande resident touts Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney disease relief after years of back pain and urinary trouble. The testimonial from Mrs. J. B. Sams of Union, Oregon asserts improved health following use, with Foster-Milburn Co. of Buffalo, N Y as U S sole agents.
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