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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1916
Page
2
Public notices and editorial commentary discuss politics and upcoming conventions. Buoyed by editor Bart Venable, the Payette Enterprise covers Hawley Lane naval base bills, irrigation progress at Willow Creek, and a Maha versus National Surety case. It reflects the era’s concerns with governance, agriculture, and infrastructure, plus brief local notices and a Riley poem excerpt.
Spokesman Review notes Roosevelt’s stance against unjust wars while urging readiness to defend rights. It argues history shows wars follow unpreparedness and appeasing patience, citing 1812, Mexico, Civil War, Spanish American War, and Napoleonic era parallels.
An Oregonian editorial cites Census Bureau statistics showing most Americans lack wealth after death and urges thrift as a vital part of youth training. It argues only a small fraction reach financial independence, and parental training shapes future work ethic and persistence.
February foreign trade shows continued rise with imports at 193 995 117 dollars and exports at 409 836 525 dollars. The trade balance hit a record 215 901 408 dollars, while eight months’ totals show exports up 37 percent and overall excess over imports at 1 296 217 462. The surge is linked to wartime munition shipments financed by foreign loans and securities sales, with no gold inflow in February and a looming postwar adjustment risk.
The text reproduces Carroll’s Easter letter to young readers, dated Easter 1876, urging children to see joy in life and faith beyond two halves of experience. It blends innocence with solemn reflections, urging kindness, imagination, and spiritual hope in daily mornings and future dawns.
A fragmented reflection on love and self doubt. The narrator questions whether affection is real or self concerned. The musing touches on identity and emotional risk with a casual, introspective tone.
Poetic fragment evokes spring renewal with soft air, birdsong, and nature emerging from dormancy. Images of rebirth suggest a fresh start and the season's awakening as life returns in vibrant tones.
Across Cuba and Central America soldiers dignify Easter, crowds gather to see a wax Jesus carried from the cathedral on a high platform, acolytes, priests, bands, and flags in a slow plaza procession. The blue, yellow, and gold Marys meet, bow, and return to the cathedral as guns fire and Mass begins.
The piece extols the farmer as the stabilizing force behind global households, linking spring wildflowers like Hepaticas and Blood Roots to renewed crop potential. It posits that if delicate field visitors emerge from dark soil after winter, so will crops like wheat, potatoes, and roots when entrusted to the earth.
A concise reflective prayer excerpt from the Sunday Chicago Tribune quotes Tohn T. McCutcheos asking for deliverance from prejudice bitterness and unkindness. It pleads for charity slow judgment and freedom from malice and hate, ending with an AMEN.
Auction and sale notices list goods for sale including a draft bazaar at the Alney Brainard building south of Gilmore Hotel and 16-12. Also offered are 14 head of cattle including four mature cows and three two year olds with calves. Jensen welds broken castings and offers welding services. Cree at 1015 Sth Street AK advertises further listings.
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