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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
7
Fruitland residents share travel updates and visits from Kentucky Nebraska and Canada. Many families and teachers are mentioned along with school openings and a roster of Fruitland Teachers and staff for the upcoming year.
Columbus Dispatch notes that Europe seeks new colonies in the South Pacific with white settlers expanding into Africa and the islands. It describes native depictions as primitive, missionaries and schools spreading, and Europe’s rubber, coconut, and phosphate industries expanding under colonial rule. The piece predicts further exodus and settlement in distant lands.
Ordinance No 831 authorizes annual city appropriations for general salaries street lighting bond interest and library funds for 1920 with mill levies. Ordinance No 282 establishes a public library and reading room with a 2 mill tax and five director board. Ordinance No 333 grants Oregon Short Line Railroad a franchise to operate and rearrange trackage on Sixth Street with conditions and a 10 day effectiveness.
Yonkers resident recounts the long lore of a legendary chestnut tree once said to harbor George Washington in a hollow trunk. The massive tree, believed 700 years old and the largest in Westchester and New York, stood at Charles F. Cox’s front yard before the Yonkers park works department cut it down. Its trunk measured about 35 feet tall and five feet in circumference, producing the biggest, sweetest chestnuts before its top broke and its mass became a local monument.
World beauty and industry notes say Bohemian glass factories run at full capacity but face future trouble from wartime competition. New rivals have appeared in Belgium Ukraine Romania and Poland, threatening market share and prices for glass products.
A fragmented item notes peculiar time based distance in Montenegro with a smoker pacing one cigarette every half hour. The text then lists for sale cows and heifers and lost deeds, followed by a vague ad seeking a representative for a high stake investment with The Coenings of the Com abore and mentions of production involvement and a move to contact The Gove Motor Car Company in Pocatello Idaho.
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