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Newspaper
Weston Leader
Location
Weston, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1917
Page
4
We are prepared to figure with you on your harvest orders for Groceries. Our stock is complete in anticipation of harvest trade. We shall count it a favor to have you come in and talk the matter over with us. We want your harvest business, and are ready for it in every particular.
A local advert describes a stock of heavy white ware that is durable yet dainty. It includes cups, snes, bowls in various sizes, and a gold band pattern praised as pretty and affordable for everyday use.
The notice advertises heavy canvases for cookhouses ranging from 29 to 72 inches. It states weights suitable for different needs and prices based on last season's purchases.
Fragmented OCR text lists Colton gloves and various menswear items with price mentions. Mentions include khaki, denim overalls, straw hats, belts or headgear, and beat outlooks. Listings reference stock, locations, and potential sales, though many phrases are garbled.
Weston area items cover barley and wheat yields, tractor and threshing efforts, and grain sales in Walla Walla and Dry Creek. Mentions Oregonian Weston draft selections, church conference plans, local iffy crop yields, and visits by Mrs. Banister and Miss Narkaus. Public recruiting efforts in Spokane and British mission office plans add regional wartime context.
Walla Walla prepares for the Pioneer Pow Wow September 14 and 15 drawing riders ropers and fans from Dayton Wailsburg Milton Freewater and nearby towns. The event features large cash prizes, a pioneer barbecue, and relic displays in a log cabin headquarters built by early settlers led by the late W. P. Winans.
Saturday August 18 features The Inspector's Double-Shorty Hooke a Loan Shark seven reels with 20c and 1Ne. Sunday August 1 Ann Mur dock in Where Love Is six reels Miss Billie Rhodes in Two of a Kind seven reels 20c and 1c. Ralph Saling reports field wheat near town averages about 40 bushels per acre and barley about 40, spring sown, thin emergence but extra grade, heavy and plump.
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