Peter the Great and the hobby that shaped shipbuilding
A Milwaukee Sentinel excerpt recounts how hobbies aid professions, citing Peter the Great’s boat-building passion sparked by finding a rotten boat. With Carsten Brandt’s help the tsar restored the vessel, joined Dutch carpenters in Holland, lived as a common worker, and later authored key shipbuilding books.
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Peter the Great
Carsten Brandt
Holland
Peter
O'Dair
Milwaukee Sentinel
Regular Crops of Eels From Ponds and Seas
Regular crops of eels can be raised in Austrian and Czechoslovak ponds without artificial hatching. Eels planted from young stock imported from France and Italy can provide a valuable food source, as streams in spring bring young eels from the sea. The Philadelphia Ledger notes this farming potential. Also, the Duke of Argyll’s marriage to Princess Louise follows a long royal precedent, last seen in 1859 with Margaret, Margaret of England. Seven Idaho Law School graduates, including Lawrence Huff, pass the state bar exam in Lewiston. Huff earns the highest score in years, per Chief Justice Rice.
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Austria
Czechoslovakia
France
Italy
Philadelphia Ledger
Duke of Argyll
Louise
Queen Victoria
England
Edward III
Margaret
John Hastings
Earl of Pembroke
Law School
University of Idaho
Lewiston
Justice Rice
Idaho Supreme Court
Lawrence Huff
Martin B. Huff
John Schnider
Cottonwood
Huff
Idaho State Contracts 60 000 License Plates Awarded
The Western Disneo company of St Paul won Idaho’s bid to supply 60 000 automobile license plates for 1923 at 11.8 cents per unit. Plates will feature a silver background with gold figures, amid controversy over pricing comparisons to retail profiteering.
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State of Idaho
Boise
Western Disneo Company of
St. Paul
Eastern Company
State awards contract for badges and plates
Irwin Hudson company of Portland wins contract to supply 1,000 chauffeurs badges at 12 cents each and 1,000 motorcycle plates. nine bids were submitted for the plates and badges.
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B. Boise
Irwin Hudson Company
Portland
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Monogram Oils
Diamond Tire
Cottonwood Garage
BOSCH
Willard Batteries
Dodge Brothers
Automotif
Acetylene
The
Cottonwood Battery & Welding Shop
J. W. Baker & Son
Beaten Path
Cottonwood Hardware & Implement Co
Mission Creek Berry Farm Co
MC Farlin
Culdesac, Idaho
Tonwood
Edgar Wortman
Prop
Watkins Store
State
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