Idaho county property sale law amended for sale or lease terms
Legislature passed a new law Amending section 3423 of the Idaho statutes to allow counties to sell property by public auction with cash or terms up to five years and to lease county property for two year periods The measure also creates a new section 3423 4 authorizing county boards to lease property at public auction or by contract with rents paid in advance
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Committe On Revenue and
State of
Idaho
Board of County Comissioners
Board of County Commissioners
Board of ‘County Commissioners
Board of Equamty
How the Newlywed Generation Makes a Home
A city couple two rooms with kitchenette shows modern young couples adapt to high rents and small spaces. The husband sells with a modest weekly salary while helping at home. the wife sews dresses and earns art money. They embrace thrift, self-reliance, and pioneer spirit, predicting bright futures for themselves and the country.
Shat-ins Not Dead to All Worldly Affairs
A Woman visits a friend in a sanatorium and sits with patients on the porch. She hears three long-term residents share memories and domestic stories as she recalls hopeful, bittersweet echoes of life and recipes from a former era.
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New York Sun
Palace Haunting Tales Of Caligula In Rome
A northern Pala tine hill palace in Rome is said to be haunted by Caligula’s ghost though a guide refused to join the visit. The piece recalls Caligula’s cruelty, Claudius at banquet, Messalina’s crying, Agrippina’s mushrooms, and Nero's ascent, with no actual specters seen.
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Palatine Hill
Rome
Caligula
Néro
Pierre Vin Pansseh
Minuie
Almott
Claudius
Messalina
Tacitus
Agrippina
Nero
Begging Yields More Than Work in Buenos Aires Study
A reporter posing as a down and outer in Buenos Aires spent five hours begging and earned 6.25 dollars, four times his 15 hour newspaper pay. The piece details how different classes and groups donate, with women and working locals leading contributions.
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Buenos Aires
Pedtle
Spats
Montmartre’s Rise From Village to Artistic Cradle
Montmartre in Paris grew from a rural village with windmills and gypsum quarries to a Benedictine convent site. The 1860 destruction of the wall with Paris helped artists settle there for cheap living, turning the hill into a cradle of French art with names like Baudelaire and Verlaine passing through.
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Montmartre
Paris
Sumpmit
Forms
Paudet
Vertain
Beruinger
Gihutler
Baudelaire
Gunny Sack Cloth Made Cheap from Jute and Hemp
The article notes cheap sacking material is manufactured mainly for Bengal from jute and partly in Bombay and Madras from sunn hemp. It mentions Dubdee Scotland producing from Bengal jute and small U S production later. Gunny weaving is a large domestic India industry giving work to men women and children. Boatmen, farmers, carriers and servants weave in spare time using a simple loom built from sticks and twine.
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Bengal
Bombay
Madras
Dubdee
Scotland
United States
India
Athletic Oddities of Samuel Johnson and His Feats
A fragment describes Johnson as tall and strong aided by a porter to defend against assailants. recounts him walking 80 miles between Lichfield and Birmingham and back, and Boswell noting Johnson’s vigorous pace during a Hebrides voyage. It also remarks on his swimming and unconventional movement, with humorous asides about rivals.
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Samuel Johnson
Litchfield
Birmingham
Hebrides
Boswell
Ont
Doran
Antioch Through Ages A City Named Antakh Recalled
The piece recalls Antioch once celebrated as a splendid port with a 120000 population in the thirteenth century. It later became Antakh with about 12000 residents and never fully recovered from a sultanate attack and the 1872 earthquake damage. Christians still view its ruins as a link to early history.
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Antioch the Beautiful
Antakh
Egypt
Columbus Letter Promises Rich Trade Goods for Spain
A 1493 letter excerpt, from a Lenox Library facsimile edition, notes Columbus’s claim that with royal support he will supply gold spices cotton chewing gum aleswood and slaves for the navy of the sovereigns, reflecting plans from the voyage and return dated March 14, 1493.
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Columbus
America
Lenox Library
Chios
Notable prodigies of poetry and prose in youth
The passage lists historical figures who produced notable literary works in childhood or adolescence. It cites Dante Tasso Pascal Edwards Goethe Voltaire Calderon Hugo Pope Moore Byron and others with ages and early achievements in poetry and writing.
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Dante
Beatrice
Tasso
Pascal
Jonathan Edwards
Goethe
Voltaire
Calderon
Victor_Hugo
Pope
Moore
Anacreon
Byron
Sword Heap of Nantal San Atonement Relic in Japan
In central Japan near Lake Chuzenji above Nantetsan sacred slopes, pilgrims climb to a shrine where a bare rock bears a heap of rusted swords daggers and weapons. Ancient tradition says a bloodied offender offered his prized blade as expiation for crime. The samurai valued his sword, and the act symbolized atonement.
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Nikko
Japan
Chuzenji
Nantel San
Nantal San
Star Valley to add 16 new dairy barns in 1927
The Independent notes Star Valley will see 16 new dairy barns built for the 1927 winter. Cows will be warmer and more productive, owners expect better milk output and easier handling. The piece suggests the move could inspire similar improvements throughout the valley and dairy industry.
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Star Valley TI
Star Valley
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