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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1922
Page
5
An advertisement promotes Fly-Tox as a household insecticide and deodorant. It details application methods for flies mosquitos moths cockroaches waterbugs bed bugs fleas and lice on animals, plus cleaning uses for glass and enamelware. It claims safety for humans and animals and notes a free mouth sprayer with purchase.
Foreclosure sale of 40 acre payette county parcel SE quarter of SE section 31 township 8N range 4W Boise Meridian Idaho. Sheriff John J Jefferis to sell August 19 1922 at 2 PM in Payette courthouse yard to satisfy Frank Richardson decree with interest and costs. Also stockholder meeting Idaho Fruit Growers Evaporates Company August 12 1922 at 2 30 PM Payette Idaho. Estray animal sale August 25 1 PM Driscoll ranch Falk Idaho by Constable T W B Stearman with description of animals.
An essay reflecting on pie as a quintessential American treat while comparing crusts and fillings in Europe and the United States. The narrator recalls tasting methods in France Germany and England, contrasting fruit filled pies with custard and pumpkin varieties, and musing on how cultural tastes shape dessert traditions.
A piano once on Lexington Street was moved to a Presbyterian church for safety before demolition. Readable fragments describe the instrument’s keys and the tuner’s task. Inside the piano were cups chalk a bottle nails and spiders. Students at a nearby high school reportedly enjoyed playing it as workers removed it.
A new battle plane on the island carries a small plane on its wing tip. Tests are reportedly successful. The larger craft remains ready to dive if needed while an expert pilot can detach the small plane to scout ahead.
The passage describes methods to increase a wire nail or spike’s holding power. It suggests removing the point with a flat, cutting the nail to length, beveling halves triangularly, and chiseling a matching hole in the wood before driving the nail to prevent spread.
The piece traces the Bowery's decline with references to infamous dives and figures like Schuyler Van Neas and Dan the Piciller, noting vanished venues such as Bucket of Blood and Slippery Ole Jutt, while contrasting old Dutch farms with modern poverty and a lingering dark memory of the street. It also mentions the Indianapolis Star dispatch on Capernanhm archaeology and the find of a Jewish temple site from Christ era, implying earthquake destruction and potential reconstruction.
Mulford biological exploration party reports discoveries of drug plants and insect species in the Amazon river basin. Reptiles and birds noted. expedition down the Boot river from Canamina and Espla. All well, three weeks in the interior of Holtvin with delays but satisfactory results. New fur fashion in colored Astrakan lamb dyeing gains popularity. prices rising, stores rushing to stock, bold color trends for next season.
A New York Sun item describes a diminutive man who pauses in Times Square awaiting to cross as an Amazonian woman stands nearby for her turn. The man hides a cough with his hand and apologizes that he is under her foot, highlighting his meekness in the crowded street.
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