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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1918
Page
2
Payette Enterprise notes Will Wells is identified as owner editor and manager with second class matter status dated August 21, 1907, at Payette, Idaho, under congressional act designation.
The Liberty Loan proceeds are spent on American goods from our factories farms and mines. Americans lend to their largest customer and gain the safest investment. The latest food administration rules are crucial for supplying the army. obey these regulations to support the fighting forces.
The text outlines that headquarters must be tied to the Colestor of Internal Revenue, be local, and include an annual itinerary schedule. They are required to maintain daily records and render monthly returns to the governor.
A reflective piece on Liberty Bonds explains the money cycle from citizens to government to allies and back, urging support for a just cause. It cites John Stuart Mill on war’s moral stakes and notes 1918 tax rules requiring price registration and business income reporting for theaters and performances.
An exchange between Kaiser Wilhelm and Satan unfolds on the telephone in a humorous poem printed in this issue. The Kaiser requests guidance in a modern war, boasting of military might and cruelty while Satan warns that Yankee forces will prevail. The piece closes noting the poem’s wider print in early papers and recommending its reading.
A writer in The Country Gentleman recalls weeks without rain in the Southwest. Drought, sand, heat, and gnats strained life until dark green clouds and a fierce wind brought rain. Four year old Robert asks, blaming no one, that God should know better than to send such a trial.
Hindu infants receive their names on the twelfth day after birth, a rite traditionally conducted by the mother. The practice centers on sacred timing and family blessing, with names drawn from local customs and ancestral usage.
A Pennsylvania liquor league statement argues military use of alcohol persists abroad. It cites U S and English purchases, Red Cross positions, and quotes from Red Cross officials denying medical alcohol use while warning against past war era beliefs.
A worried man asks a woman to bake a nickel for a conductor who ignored him. She agrees to lend the fare, but the conductor ignores her as she tries to signal. She ends up riding past her stop and back home, the nickel cost and embarrassment weighing on her.
The author argues architects and builders too often produce below their potential, calling for greater effort and integrity. He criticizes shallow finishes, blunt rosettes, and rigid imitations of medieval statuary as signs of degraded craft, urging a return to genuine, noble design.
Century Magazine describes the inland Arctic glare from endless snow fields. Even with smoked glasses, eyes need fur bands to block light in camps. Only when storms brew does the sky’s gray light lessen the intense brightness and glare.
The Boston Globe notes John Newbury helped set fashion for juvenile tales around 1796 by hiring Goldsmith and others. It highlights Dr James Powder tied to the publisher’s profits, citing Goody Two Shoes where the heroine’s father dies after a jab at the remedy.
Sheriff J H Hanigan will sell at Payette Court House on April 27 1918 all that NW 14 of NE 14 Section 25 Township 9 North Range 5 West Boise Meridian with appurtenances to satisfy Clara Shinns decree against G P Abernathy George P Abernathy Luella Abernathy and heirs or claimants of NW 1 4 of NB 1 4 in that section the sale is in cash and subject to prior liens dated March 27 1918 to pay the amount of the decree with costs and interest. Woman wants to rent a typewriter for a few weeks at Bancroft Hotel.
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