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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1911
Page
6
Fruitland news highlights community events and work around town. Reports describe church activities, family visits, school matters, road and wagon routes, hunting and rifle practice, and ongoing efforts to improve local utilities and mutual telephone services in Payette fruitland and nearby valleys.
The article describes tin’s gradual alteration known as catching, where exposed tin oxidizes and crumbles into powder, turning gray and dull. It notes that this degeneration affects objects, references historical powder shipments, and cites sources in London-based Scientific News.
Mra Kirkendall and daughter of Payette visit the Scott home as residents discuss voter turnout for the three Payette river bridges. references to others visiting, threshing crews in the valley, and various locals in Payette and Meridian are noted amid brief social items.
Fragmented verse recalls autumn air and hunting fever. The speaker yearns for field textures, boots and coat ready for outing, ducks in distance, a sweater worn before. Memory and caution mingle as a huntress plans, senses sharpened by late light.
A humorous, muddled page features a clergyman joke about London sermons and tastes for pleasure, a boast about costly debauchery, and scattered notes on sickness, population density, and public spectacles. The excerpts mix dialogue on dissipation with references to notable figures and places, all in a ragged, early newspaper style.
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