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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1923
Page
8
Local items record visits by Wilford Rich and Adam Welker, real estate and farming news, plus a Paris Garage ad urging inspections. Town notes mention residents moving, guests in Paris, eggs and chicks shipments, and street work with snow plows. UP Railroad plans 40000 in yearly upgrades.
A boy relates his hopes to work at a newspaper for a dollar a week with ambitions to rise to five dollars a month. He mentions Miss Crankbevisit, Bill Hart, and Mister Harding, notes cow sales, a Chicago fire, and family jokes about his future as a newspaper man plus a grim joke about cremation.
Local notices report a farm service ad from Paris Flour Mill run by Victor Mouritsen with phone numbers 58 and 20. The item sits among community updates including hospital news, theater results at Novelty Theatre, a Buffalo Bill program, road conditions delaying mail, a fall injuring Mrs. Walter P. Rich, and school students carving a rock letter ONE on a hill behind the city.
Help wanted advertisements seek men and women to take orders for Benning guaranteed hosiery for men women and children. Includes full time salary 75 dollars per week and 1.60 dollars per hour spare time. Mentions spring line and upcoming dances such as the Ag Club Ball and the Senior event in the near future.
Elders Pugmire and Keetch and Miss Namof Rich spoke at a well attended stake meeting in the First ward chapel last Sunday afternoon. Pugmire offered a solo titled My Task. Montpellier attorney Geraint Humphreys was in town on legal business and still bears a sling from an accident weeks ago while chopping wood. The left hand wound heals rapidly.
An aged recruitment notice from Coast Supply Company offers $20,100 plus $40 daily for hustlers selling Dip Coli gear for Ford ears. It promises easy sales on hills and mountains with quick twenty minute pitches. Sample kit costs $3,000. Printer hints at territory rights and long Beach California address.
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