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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1911
Page
5
Dr Posey offers specialist eye and ENT care with glasses fitting at ver Seldery store and evening hours 7 to 8 p m. Mrs C C Combs lists 1820 Sixth street and Geddes Bros promote pure vinegar and coffee supplies urging timely purchase during rising prices. Geddes Bros advertise remodeling timing for the season.
Mrs Coombs Bax opens an electric and steam bath parlor at 1620 Sixth Street offering treatments at 25 percent below cost. Ads promote battery powered lighting and low monthly charges, with free booklets and trial treatments. Also notices on fruit jars oysters and door advertisements appear.
Pete Belver left this morning for Roundup. J Epstum of New York is a Foley guest. Wallace Rose of Logan Utah left the Foley for a few days. C E Darrow of Enterprise is at the Savoy. George W Gunther of Lima Montana is at the Savoy. Rev Cooper Jr and wife of Seattle are registered at the Summer. G Lelsender arrived from St Paul and is a Foley guest. James Riley came from Portland and is at the Savoy. E P Staples of Telecaset is a guest at the Savoy. R J Gordon of Portland is in the city and a Sommer guest. J K Levy of San Francisco is a Sommer guest. Rev Upton H Gibbs will travel to Minnesota October 7 with Mrs Gibbs. H J Starr of the Yakima valley moved his family to La Grande for the winter. Rev E P Borden of Manderson Wyoming arrives as pastor. first sermon tomorrow morning and evening.
Miss Lillian Holemen departed this morning for Pendléton to assume duties as a teacher in the rubbie school.
Judge Tallant signs a warrant in Brooklyn for the arrest of Edward Gront former New York comptroller and Union Bank of Brooklyn president amid allegations of bank misappropriation.
Cleveland filed report notes Rockefeller protested a Forest Hill estate tax valuation showing over four hundred percent increase from last year. His legal representatives appeared before the county commission but were ignored.
Des Moines Iowa September 16 United States Judge Smith McPherson dissolved a injunction restraining the state railroad commission from reducing express rates in Iowa. Lower rates take effect October 31 and average a 10 to 15 percent reduction across the state.
La Grande lodge No. 41 A F and A M schedules a Saturday evening gathering for third degree work and a banquet. Visiting brothers are invited by the Worshipful Master.
C H Rogers prepares for a transcontinental flight to the Pacific coast tomorrow. He received a specially made Wright Brothers aeroplane today for the journey.
The Huna eruption is subsiding at Catania. Lava streams are splitting into four small rivers flowing rapidly downward. Also a help-wanted notice seeks a school girl to work for board and room, phone Chick 112. 5-16-6t.
The sunflower provides notable value in battleship construction where pithy stalks absorb water and seal hull breaches, in cigars as a plant product, and in seed byproducts for food and poultry feed. Seeds yield edible oil and cake, hulls produce fiber for textiles, honey from nectar, and dye.
The London Globe notes literary slips by Mamillle Paquet and others in misattributing lines to Caesar and Columbus. It cites Langlois uniting Palestro and Solferino, Moliere’s era edits, and Montesquieu misreferences, highlighting familiar medieval and early modern errors in honoring historical events.
Travel writing describes a 5 pm viewing along the causeway to Mount St Michel where a crested tidal surge races in. Boats ride the surge as quicksand danger looms for those onshore, while the sea reaches the sands with a powerful wall of water.
The excerpt shows a music master's counsel on a daughter's interests and a reader's complaint about losing a subscription. It reflects gossip and humorous asides from Chicago Record-Herald and Puck with mock dialogue and editor notices.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention the family Bible and reference to ft Waa with unclear context. No full event or clear entities emerge from readable text.
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