Idaho Cities Urged to Set Up Housing Authorities
Boise area officials were urged to form local housing authorities under 1939 rules to utilize federal low-cost housing funds. W J Lockwood of the National Emergency Council outlined loan terms, subsidies, and strict eligibility, plus seven steps for participation including local authority creation, surveys, and keeping costs under limits.
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W. Jt’. Lockwood
National Emeéegency Council
United States ‘Housing Authority
Lockwood
United States Housing Authority
USHA
Boise
Ag United Housing Authors
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Thunder Mountain Gold Rush in Idaho Looms Large in Memory
The Thunder Mountain rush drew five thousand people between 1896 and 1899. A. B Caswell and J. Caswell owned the Golden Reef, sold in 1901 to Col. W. H. Dewey of Nampa for 100000. Roosevelt, Thunder City and Belleco sprang up near Monumental Creek as claims spread across the landscape.
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Glenn Balch
Thunder Mountain
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J. Caswell
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Col. W. H. Dewey
Nampa
Heview
Col Dewey
Roosevelt
Thunder City
Monumental Creek
Belleco
Marble
Thunder Mountain Boom Turns to Ruins Near Cascade
The Thunder Mountain district that once boomed with pianos and ore vanished as ore values dropped with depth and transport costs rose. The Dewey mine closed and wagons dumped tailings, leaving hillside gashes and rusting mills. Today Roosevelt and Thunder City lie ruined, a lake replacing hopes once rushed by thousands after the century’s turn.
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Cascade
Dewey
Thunder Mountain
Roosevelt
Hese
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Food In Flaps Of Bread In Persia Markets
In Persian bazaars cooked food is wrapped in long flaps of bread one to two feet long and carried home. The text mentions an Albion name for Alblear War the earlier name used by Greeks and Romans for England.
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Persia
Albion
Alblear-War-the-earlieg
England
Discovered Virgin Islands Named After St Ursula
The Virgin Islands were discovered by Columbus on his second voyage in 1493 and named Las Virgenes in honor of St Ursula.
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Virgin Islands
Columbus
Las Virgenes
St. Ursula
California Begins Sugar Beet Experiment in 1869
California began experimental cultivation of sugar beets in 1869 marking the state’s early foray into beet sugar production with pioneering trials and observations guiding later agricultural efforts.
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California
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