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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1917
Page
3
War department notes forecasts of horse abandonment for mechanized transport. Experiments with motorized batteries prove promising only for heavier types. horses costlier, require more care, and soldiers for maintenance. Motor power remains limited by pulling and mobility constraints in rough fields.
A Los Angeles man with a small backyard invents a barrel garden for strawberries. He builds a central passage by stacking cans and perforated bettors, fills with soil, plants vines in holes, and adds soil and water drainage as the barrel fills.
Instructions describe opening, reusing, and resealing used tin cans for storing tomatoes berries and other foods. Steps include lifting the central circle, removing contents washing drying storing and resealing with a soldering iron, noting special treatment for tomato and berry cans and compatibility of other vegetables in reused cans.
The London Globe cites Doctor Oswald of Glasgow Lunatic Asylum arguing war may palliate insanity while poverty and unemployment emerge as stronger causes of mental breakdown. The piece highlights the removal of poverty's mental toll and the role of better living standards and employment as healing factors after war ends.
A 1986 worker safety alert notes sleeves and neckties pose deadly risks near rotating machinery. It urges strict avoidance of loose clothing and jewelry while operating equipment to prevent entanglement and injury.Share text reflects warning to laborers about common hazards from loose garments around moving parts.
The landlady and a mild mannered lodger exchange morning pleasantries over breakfast as a tense domestic moment unfolds. The landlady jokes about killing the “poor thing” while the lodger hesitates, asking if it can be tuned rather than harmed.
A quip compares religion to a railroad for the human brain, arguing that religion must fit a road suited to human power or it will fail and collapse. The piece recounts Sir Charles Wadham’s anecdote about Gladstone and a recital, highlighting social irony and the mockery of pretentious culture.
Commissioners report on Drainage District No 2 Canyon County Idaho describes route plans costs and damages for widening extending and improving drainage. It lists lands to include and apportionment of costs benefits and damages while noting a court hearing set for August 22 1917 in Payette Idaho to confirm or contest the report.
Two million three hundred thousand acres of Oregon and California Railroad Co. Grant Lands revested in United States to be opened for homesteads and sale. Contains top soil climate rainfall elevations and a detailed map. Postpaid one dollar. Grant Lands Locating Co Port land Oregon Box 610.
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