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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
5
Local Fruitland items cover visitors, kinfolk leaving for holidays, and community plans. Names include Miss Evelyn Skippen, Mr John Leelle, Mr Lark, and Mrs J W Hoor with travels to Boise, Payette, Nampa, and California. A Sacred Concert is announced, and school notes mention teacher changes and a Christmas Lyceum event.
Chiffoniere commode kitchen cabinet bicycle bay car racks iron bed and springs writer chairs E Clayton is offering various items for sale in a brief catalog style notice. The terse list implies a local classifieds or sale notice from a historical paper segment.
For sale 80 160 and 640 acre tracts in southern central Idaho priced 40 to 50 dollars per acre. Good terms possible with some acreage trade. Contact J. K. Vaught Fairfield Idaho. AU Chronic Troubles a Specialty. Dr W B Sina Chiropractor office Crichton Block over Keiths Store telephone 8.
Busy period delays news from the area. Swell of items include Mr. and Mrs. Syme visiting from Arcadia Oregon, a plane installed at the Coats ranch for contractors, Oscar Keifer named director of the Little Willow Irrigation District, and visitors from Boise to see Johnny Bit who is recovering from surgery. A large Midvale outfit works on the Shimp and Patton canal while L A Walker buys a 160 acre tract. Cross buys Howard Murphy holdings and will reside here. Dam in Little Willow canyon is safe for now and winter seems distant. An accident near Kenward ranch injures Miss Ruth Kenward and Nellie. they recover with medical care.
The Minneapolis Journal discusses the critical challenge of ventilation in modern battleships. It explains how ships’ complex steel structure, piles of equipment, and extensive piping demand robust air flow especially in boiler and engine rooms. It notes coal bunkers emit dangerous gases and outlines supply and exhaust pipes that create continuous air currents to protect crew and ship.
In Tokyo, Good Health reports a trend of two classes of Japanese adopting meat eating alongside tobacco and whisky, hoping to gain size and vigor. Japanese women, however, refuse meat and avoid meat houses, deeming such visits improper.
London Globe notes growing city concern over the gilded cross and bell atop St Pauls cathedral. The regilding before the war makes the beacon highly visible to enemy aircraft in bright sun, guiding observers to central London. The cross can be seen for miles with naked eye.
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