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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1913
Page
4
A garbled Popular Science excerpt discusses a female animal hibernating in a dwelling, producing up to 120 eggs in spring, with half foaling and four months of breeding. It then references a massive descendant count for an individual, a tiny one-fourth inch house length, a ground distance around the earth of 24.00 miles, and absurd multiplier figures. Professor FL Washburn is cited.
A university oral exam tale features a sarcastic professor testing a handsome, self possessed student who reveals ignorance of basic concepts. The professor wields a paper pad as the student bluntly admits he knows nothing, prompting a charged moment of awkward humor and frustration.
An illustrated note on frijoles and tortillas as staple foods. It describes corn preparation, grinding on a stone, clay griddles, and the hot, peppery flavors of beans with onions and lard. It mentions tacitly the single national drink pulque and hints at peon cooking practices and tools.
An article discusses modern coast defenses built as stone fort batteries with concealed magazines and service rooms. It explains gunner instruction, fire control, and the need to maintain comfortable, workable interiors while contending with humid, moisture-filled galleries.
In an young George of England during his early years visited Canada with the Duke of Clarence. At a Quebec ball honoring the royals the younger prince spent time with the young ladies while his elder brother corrected him on social duty. He replied there are two of us. He sang God save your grandfather while dancing with the girls.
George Jeffries announces readiness to perform spray work for all Kinlip thin season using a power sprayer. He guarantees the job will pass the Fruit Inspector's inspection. Orders may be left at Enterprise Printing or delivered in person at 101.
Classified notice lists wood for sale including kindling and 15 inch blocks with contact DeMont Juad. Also offers goose eggs for hatching, three ganders, five bees, and farm stock from eastern tine stock in Payette Idaho. Includes alfalfa and red clover hay and a note about Sweden seed. Wood is 104.
The horse stable feet require daily wetting with clean water to prevent dryness. Water outperforms hoof oil, and packing is rarely needed if feet are kept moist. Watch the hooves for blackened areas and ensure proper feeding or dental checks. When buying a new horse prefer a mare to boost future colt profits.
Guidance on using cold pressed cottonseed cake as a protein concentrate in rations for fattening steers. Details the differences from ordinary cake, optimal mixes with corn and hay, plus tested rations from Illinois and Michigan studies. Also covers growing pigs with skim milk or middlings, and notes on balanced, varied diets for better gains.
The Fara Journal urges restraint to prevent cruelty to animals and warns that cruel actions by boys or neighbors can lead to tragedy. It calls for calm handling of livestock and strict, regular routines in milking feeding and care to avoid fines and harm.
The article recounts Whistler painting a portrait of Henry Irving as Philip II. Irving tried to buy it for a modest sum, but Whistler kept it. After various fortunes, the portrait sold for 25 000 pounds in London following Irving's death, a legitimate price rise from the original few pounds.
A Prague tale of bureaucratic wrangling over rabbits near the Liebner Brücke. Officials from burgomaster to water and river authorities pass the buck, form committees, and finally learn the rabbits left months ago in a verbose circle of jurisdiction.
The plaster cast portrait of the dead or living face is absolutely true to nature It cannot flatter or censure It reveals the subject as he was or is not only how others saw him but how he saw himself In a death mask the subject often appears with his mask off revealing true self without pretence
A London Opinion writer reports a departing guest galled at being charged for writing paper he never used. The exchange reveals a joke about a bill for paper and a Bogus drink called boowa, tied to a discussion of alcohol and Moslem customs.
He Miss Bellacour claims to descend from an old family. she asserts the claim. There are six sisters, the youngest of whom appears to be at least thirty one years old. TheExchange exchange appears to be a social ruse or arrangement referenced in the text.
A dense list of farm goods and livestock offered for sale or trade in Payette Idaho. Items include Barred Rock hens, hatching services, milk and cream delivery, oats wheat and barley seed, butter wrappers, real estate and stock, pumps, alfalfa seed, geldings and mares, furnished rooms, driving horses, duck strains, and poultry stock, with contact names and phone numbers such as C W Giesler J K Graham Henry Hansen Welly and others.
Oregon Short Line offers conference excursions to Salt Lake City for the Mor mon conference with tickets from north Ogden dates April 1 to 5 and sale through April 15. Contact agents for rates and details. Also for sale a six year old gelding about 1300 pounds well broke and two wagons, 3.25 and 3.5 axle, from C J McCartney Payette Idaho on the old Stroup ranch.
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