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Newspaper
La Grande Evening Observer
Location
La Grande, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
2
From Arequipa Peru's observatory at 8050 feet altitude a black one inch spot on a white disk was seen on Mount Charcha ni eleven miles away through a 13 inch telescope, indicating unusually clear air conditions.
A dense directory snippet lists physicians surgeons and specialists with offices and phone numbers in La Grande Oregon. It also shows attorneys Cochran Crawford and Cochran and a mining engineer based in Baker City. A marketing note promotes Home Building opportunities via the O R N Co and urges outreach for visitor information.
Sugar cash price six seventy six. beet sugar six fifty six. Vegetables list onions five to ten cents, tomatoes ten cents per pound, potatoes two cents, cabbage four, corn twenty cents, beans ten, peppers fifteen. Fruit includes oranges fifty cents chosen, lemons forty five per dozen, cantaloupe ten or fifteen, peaches eighty five cents to one dollar, grapes two pounds for twenty five cents. Meats: hogs nine cents per pound, cows three and a half to four, veal four to four and a half, mutton four to five, chickens twelve, ducks seventeen. eggs local candled about thirty four. Barley producers’ price twenty six to twenty six eighty, wheat thirty three per ton. Millstuffs brand twenty three, shorts twenty four. Hay alfalfa sixteen, timothy twenty, mixed eighteen. Flour high patent five eighty nine, family patent five twenty, straight four eighty. Butter extra cream store twenty two and a half to twenty four and a half. eggs local candled? around thirty four. Poultry mix chickens sixteen to eighteen cents, fancy nineteen. turkeys alive twenty to twenty one. Pigeons two sixty, dressed chickens one to two cents higher. Barley producer price for 1910 twenty three point six, rolled twenty five point six to twenty six eighty. brewing twenty six. Wheat nominal track eleven eighty one and eighty eight, bluestem ninety six, William Veley ninety, Valley ninety seven. Millstuff selling prices twenty two, midling thirty, shorts twenty four, chop twenty six. Flour old crop patents six dollars.
The La Grande City Council plans a special assessment on property benefited by the N Ash Street improvement from Jackson Ave to Benton Ave. Estimated cost is 462.40 dollars. A council meeting to consider the levy and hear objections will be Oct 6, 1910, at 8 pm in the city chamber. D E Cox, Recorder, announces notice from Sept 24 to Oct 5, 1910.
Notice of street improvement in La Grande Oregon by the Common Council on March 16 1910 creating Improvement District No 22 and designating N Ash street as the district. A subsequent April 18 1910 resolution intents to lay a board walk along N Ash street. Ten days after notice service the council will order the described improvement and define district boundaries.
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