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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1906
Page
2
The item discusses editorial policy on signed articles, advertising rates, and notices. It notes Baker City’s larger population than La Grande based on school children, mentions Osser Office remarks, Cuba capital, and expects county fair success. Rain may affect grain harvest but boost sugar beet tonnage.
Bulletin 80 from the Texas agricultural experiment station outlines thorough peach cultivation from land prep to pest control, compiled by E. J. Kile and urging all Texas orchardists to obtain a copy from College Station. The note also cites San Francisco earthquake death tolls and uncertainties in casualty counts.
Each subscriber to the Daily and Weekly Observer will receive a copy of the Observer's Industrial Edition. It is hoped readers will study it and think of a trend in the east, then send the copy to him. The edition contains information useful for those contemplating a western trip.
A reader muses that a bumper hay crop, unexpectedly high wheat yield, record beet production, robust hog market, rising horse prices, and continually increasing lumber values indicate strong local prosperity for Union County residents.
A warning that men who miss the current chance to secure timber claims at government rates will find the opportunity gone in a few years as timber lands become scarce and prices rise.
The La Grande listing notes an enrollment figure of seven hundred on the first day of the session. Details on programs or full demographics are not provided in readable text.
If this weather lasts a few days longer the high school boys will do regular football team practice. The new spelling system is called the dehorned system in Kansas.
The Union County Court in La Grande Oregon invites sealed bids by October 3 1906 for a wooden combined bridge over the Big Ditch Randall Road and for a steel bridge of 100 foot span over the Grande Ronde River near the mill site for Palmer Lumber Company both with concrete abutments and required steel quality bidders must supply their own plans and the county reserves the right to reject any or all bids dated September 11 1906 La Grande Oregon
Mrs E H Brunson of Dublin Ohio proclaims at eighty two she still feels young thanks to Electric Bitters a tonic claimed to cure dyspepsia liver trouble and kidney inflammation and constipation. The Newlin Drug Co guarantees the medicine at 50 cents.
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