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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1919
Page
6
The Philadelphia North American notes recent science claims that a full throat, open nostrils, large thorax, and a round head shape signify potential musical tone in humans and birds. It contrasts canaries and ducks, suggesting innate voice gift and training limits.
The countywide Settlers Picnic will be Friday at the School Park in Payette. Attendants should bring lunch baskets and stay for inspections, judging of canned fruits, poultry, pigs, calves, and dairy demos. Afternoon events feature speeches by Gen. L. V. Pateli and Dean E. J. Idings, followed by a long list of races, contests, and a final tug of war between Fruitland and Payette. Objects for sale include leather chaps, a Winchester rifle, and White Leghorn cockerels, with nearby job and rental notices.
The Little Journal argues rat skins could be turned into usable leather for gloves mittens and parts of boots and shoes. It notes thicker fur yields poorer hides and speculates on large rat populations and daily skin needs for tanning. The piece concludes the challenge is catching and skinning the rats for usable leather.
A new incombustible insulating material is produced by blending 51.7 percent powdered asbestos 14 percent powdered mica 20 percent mineral rubber a soft substance from bituminous schist 1 percent rosin and 0.8 percent bisulfide of selenium. After washing and evaporating the air a hard non absorbent substance is obtained which on heating becomes plastic and moldable.
Ontario and nearby residents share updates on local life. Mr and Mrs Ben Thomas visit the Diversion Dam area and show interest in the valley. Miss Lenora Thornton underwent tonsil removal at Ontario Hospital. Families travel to Boise for health and meetings at Tourist Park. Ditch cost estimates are being prepared by Board and Wicklund for next year. Local farming gears up for threshing and fall work as young couples plan to settle in the valley.
A crew of six men work on repairs at Alr Storage located at the Spur. The packing house at the Spur has been rented by a local Payette fruit buyer who expects to pack out about 80 000 boxes of apples this season. County Agent Palmer and Mr Fleisher of the Labor Bureau interviewed farmers in the area last week. Representatives from Watkins Remedy Co and others were seen in the neighborhood. Idaho Oregon Fruit Growers Association and Reliable Fruit Co unloaded box material at the Spur. Mrs Olga Reimer Adams and baby from Council visit relatives nearby. Perry Franklin suffers with a smallpox rash. Mrs Shurtleff is convalescent.
Brief notes from Payette and nearby towns cover coming home after operation and teaching plans, returning from overseas, pruning at packing houses, sermon notices, and local social visits. Residents seek rentals and ranch work while announcements mention renting tents, and a string of small classifieds for Payette and Fruitland readers.
Mrs Riche Croker wife of former Tamnary Kal boss faces a challenge to her title as Princess of the Choctee Tribe from her husband’s children through a lawyer. The dispute arises over whether she remains an Indian princess after three years away in Europe.
A museum doorkeeper, trained in the rules, tells a visitor to leave his umbrella at the door. The visitor protests he has no umbrella, and the doorkeeper insists no one may pass without leaving it. The exchange highlights strict adherence to a strict policy.
Consolli Bobby asks why Grandpa looks sad and he explains at seventy he has done nothing memorable. Bobby reassures him that history may still remember him as someone's grandfather.
By owner Mrs. Sarah A Say lists modern six room house with a 50 by 145 lot and a five room cottage on the same 70 by 145 corner property at 114 South 10th. Sale notice dated August 3, 71f.
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