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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1918
Page
4
The Star House Keeper notes that wise homemakers seek the best groceries at the lowest prices, praising customers who choose value by testing quality and comparing costs, and inviting others to make the store their grocer to solve shopping concerns.
Local notes recount Mr and Mrs David Kelly nursing a bed sickness and a pneumonia improving in a week. Little Alice Currin suffered a fall with a broken limb and received medical aid in Payette. Mrs W R Shimp visited Boise with James Wings. Auto travel along Little Willow declines, freight hauls roughens roads, stock remains healthy and grass improves. No school at Eastside for New Year. no teacher yet, with students well behaved under Miss Kenward. Residents near New Plymouth busy with cattle, ditch camp work, and cement transport to Dam camp hindered by bad roads. A piano and haven port offered for sale by Mrs Bowen at Eorma Theatre.
A Chicago office tells of Melville F Brannen who traded a stenographer job for Uncle Sam’s service. He ditched a clarinet for a drum and joined the regimental band at Camp Logan Houston Texas while also doing clerical work in the adjutant’s tent as Private M F Brannen.
Birds like larks may consume up to fifty grasshoppers daily. If five pairs nest on every well sized farm without persecution, that daily grasshopper dispatch becomes a potential boon for enlightened farmers. A London bullion house notes silver price drops in Bombay hint bearish Indian bazaars and reduced industrial imports. Some individuals may have turned silver jewelry into coin due to mint policies.
A fragment from a Louisville article discusses beauty as a grand, universal quality linked to the Parthenon and epic works, while loveliness denotes human charm found in Shakespearean heroines. It mentions Juliet, Rosalind, Beatrix, Miranda, Desdemona, Ophelia, Portia, Olivia, Viola, Celia, Cordelia, and others, then shifts to a note on arithmetical origins from fingers and a short mock dialogue about honesty. It closes with a relic sale in Glasgow and a Church of Christ Bible School schedule.
Week report shows high 52 on January 7 and low 28 on January 2 and 3. Mean temperature 40 with total precipitation 0.20 inches. Six cloudy days and one partly cloudy day, zero clear days. Prevailing wind direction unspecified.
The notice enforces a seven day response period for registrants with penalties for noncompliance. It invites claims for deferred classification within seven days, to be submitted to the Local Board with supporting affidavits. Dated June 10, 1918, signed by A B Hanigan, Chairman.
An old style notice promotes Lou's Cafe as a good place to eat and invites readers to visit. It includes miscellaneous classifieds about a horse and feed, a barter offer for Parker shotsun and pool piano, and contact notes for local services in Payette Idaho.
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