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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1909
Page
4
United Press Telegraph lists subscription prices for daily six months and yearly advance, weekly rates, and post office filing as second class. It notes policy against anonymous articles and requires signed pieces with editor revision rights.
Display ad rates furnished upon application for local reading notices. Ten cents per line for first insertion and six cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Condolence resolutions priced at six cents per line.
The article notes milk price hikes in Portland and a move toward municipal government in Tacoma. It highlights McMinnville College’s opening, J P O'Brien reporting a 150 percent rise in QO KR NS passenger traffic, and mentions Geo H Williams ill at Good Samaritan Hospital. It covers divorce proceedings in Pendleton and executive court assignments, plus reflections on Dr Cook and Peary and the Grand Opera Company led by Frank Poe.
The popular little theatre was packed to the doors last night by an audience that laughed themselves hoarse at this funny comedy.
In Duxbury Massachusetts on September 24 three hundred devoted followers waited for the predicted apocalypse in rain. Luder announced the end would come tonight while some skeptics thought the date was miscounted and set the final judgment for one year hence. Many sold property and prepared for final judgment.
In Baker last evening attorney C E Cochran secured assurance from U S Senator Chamberlain that the senator will be in La Grande during fair week.
A garbled report describes a military encampment and a 50 foot dress enclosure at an army tent display. General Goodbroa, cited in the piece, notes the setup and equipment for the public event held this morning.
A fragmentary notice describes a two story building on Pir sei between Allains and Jeffersio to be moved. The cheap sale condition applies if a taker is found, with Gardiner listed as point of contact and a reference B-8-8-4.
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