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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1929
Page
6
Archaeologists unveil restored fragments of Queen Hatschepsut’s effigy, recovered from a Luxor quarry where it had been hurled after Thothmes II’s death in 1480 B C. The team, employing up to 700 Weyptian laborers, has cleared 100000 tons of rubble to assemble parts for display.
A London Tit-Bits humor piece tells of a dead man who, after entering hell, orders the placement of furnaces and bosses imps, claiming ownership since his wife gave him the realm while alive, prompting Satan to note his assumed title.
A humorous note from the Ohio State Journal explains that godets appear in suit jacket hems and that pull-ons are gloves. It highlights that some facts remain unheard despite casual talk about fashion terms.
Idaho reports on lava formations at Craters of the Moon, metal mining output, air mail service readiness, county weed control funding, water storage in Oakley reservoir, predatory animal control spending, fire danger shifts, cloudbursts washing out roads, Glacier park road upgrades, magpie destruction efforts, University of Idaho engineering graduates, rodent poison distribution, and farm yield plots across Coeur d Alene and surrounding counties.
Fragmentary lines of a patriotic hymn mix with garbled text about freedom and liberty. The readable phrases invoke land, fathers, liberty, and a plea for divine protection as the piece trails into disjointed endings.
The text states that the United Colonies declare themselves Free and Independent States, absolved from allegiance to the British crown, with powers to wage war, make peace, form alliances, and conduct commerce. It asserts final separation and appeals to Divine Providence, pledging lives fortunes and sacred honor.
The Tulpehocken valley dedicates a 25 acre park as a memorial to Conrad Weiser. Washington praised his service to the Colonies noting posterity will not forget him. Weiser, born in 1696 in Germany, fled religious persecution and aided diplomacy with Native Americans during the French and Indian wars. Kansas City Star credits his work with preventing Iroquois attacks.
Betsy Ross is credited with challenging Dr. George B Hastings of Arkansas in his book to Hopkinson as the designer of the Stars and Stripes. Hastings located Hopkinson’s bill for designing the flag among Continental Congress papers in the Library of Congress. The bill, adopted in 1777, was never paid. A reviewing board concluded the public is entitled to small assistance given by gentlemen with large salaries under Congress without fee or reward.
Notes from Heber City to Fillmore show herd and wool statistics for January 1 1929 with sheep lambs and cattle trends. Wool shipments from Summit county reach 200000 pounds to Boston while Utah range conditions improve in May and dairy yields rise in Richmond-Lewiston.
Reforestation efforts in the last three years added 1 055 658 acres to state and community preserves. Washington led growth with Pennsylvania second. Delaware Georgia and South Carolina, formerly without state forests, joined in. Publicly owned forests exceed 12 million acres nationwide.
Radium prices are poised to drop due to new radium mines in Portugal. Present quotations run about 60,000 dollars per gram, roughly 1.7 million dollars per ounce, while most supply has come from Kantaga in the Belgian Congo operated by a Belgian company.
Text shows a dispute over attending a 2 PM meeting with a photographer. The executive cites busyness and delegates to the Ladies' Home Journal. A proverb notes a man who is neither a good talker nor a good listener faces trouble.
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