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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
4
Lost on Fruitland bridge a tan shoe with rubber heel. Finder please return to Mr Davis at Payette Modern Garage for reward. For sale a spring or fall ge well filled heavy yields Bart Hard Fruitland phone 33 29 IL.
The State of Idaho Sends Greetings to Ida A McCullough and unknown defendant. Complaint filed to foreclose delinquent tax certificate 0545 on Lot 19 Block 32 New Plymouth Townsite Payette County for 1916 title as $4.58 plus interest, with costs and sale of property to satisfy. Defendants must answer within 20 days if in district or 40 days elsewhere. If no answer, judgment by default. Dated November 28 1919. Clerk H G Gardner. Attorney R B Haynes. First publication December 11 1919. Last publication January 22 1920. Re-painting and re-covering announced by Seguine Auto Co on t ar o, Ore.
The article recalls the Napoleonic era statue near Waterloo that once faced France but looked toward Germany, a silent, ponderous lion now reoriented by Belgium. It stands as a reminder against overreaching world conquest and to calm regional tensions.
The Christian Science Monitor reports chatter among tennis overlords about replacing love with a term meaning nothing. The piece notes tennis has been labeled effeminate by some, and traces possible origins of love to a Scottish word for nothing or an eastern term from an old form of tennis. It concludes the sport remains popular despite the playful chatter.
Cuba plans a costly monument to General Maximo Gomes, hero of the Cuban wars. Italian sculptor Aldo Gaba won first prize of 25000 dollars for the memorial model, with costs estimated at 200000 dollars. Spanish Cuban Huertas Cabarrocas and American Gutson Borglum took second and third prizes. General Gomes led Cuban forces in 1895 to 1898 and also played a major role in the Ten Years’ War starting in 1868. He died on June 18, 1905, when Cuba’s government gave his family 100000 dollars. The piece notes a postwar reception by American forces in Havana.
Helium gas, once exceedingly rare and valuable, saw output of under 100 cubic feet worldwide with a value around 1700 dollars per cubic foot. A 150000 cubic foot European shipment just before the armistice slashed costs to under 10 cents per cubic foot. Discovered on the sun by spectroscopy, helium is prized for balloons as it is nonflammable. It is now chiefly extracted from Texas and Kansas natural gas, with a delicate but workable separation process based on extreme cooling.
A 40 person surveying party funded from the United States travels to Nova Scotia to survey Labrador forests. Four airplanes will cuv ey the area to value wood pulp, and aerial photographs will be taken to compile statistics for the project led by a former British air forces captain.
The Field Museum of Chicago received a rare treasure trove of pure gold ornaments excavated from the Nechi River basin in Colombia. The collection includes breast plates aprons elaborate earrings bells and necklaces, forming the most valuable world collection of art from Colombia’s ancient inhabitants.
Notice of public auction by Constable I W B Stearman at the J E Turner ranch near Payette Idaho on February 6 1920 at 2 p m to sell one red Durham cow aged four to five years dehorned with ear marks both ears half under bit no visible brand. Also sale ads for W R C meeting times and officers Galena Coughanour president fattie Mathis secretary and a for sale item listing a grade Henney Buggy with harness sleigh runners and bells at a bargain for quick sale by A B Wood ta.
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