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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1921
Page
3
Local notice advertises a Christmas tree event at Elk Barber Shop for all children under 16. It mentions Clanton & Clanton writing box, Payette Idaho and Nampa Idaho, with sale of town lots by Boyd Swanson and a dec. 9 deadline.
Florida W Parsons notes in the Saturday Evening Post that the freshwater pearl button trade supports about twenty thousand workers with a $5,000 plus value per industry. Mussel larvae attach to fish hosts, especially the white bass and Kipjack herring, for development before dropping to river bottoms to form buttons. The industry spans twenty states in the Mississippi basin, now worth about $1,000,000, but mussel beds have been depleted and calls for government protection.
The article notes low daily bread costs for Chinese students at a Shandong mission school with meals of steamed corn bread millet rice and brined turnips. It contrasts this with Western expectations and mentions occasional deluxe meals. It also cites William Lyon Phelps on four speeches per invitation, as reported by the Boston Globe.
Bert returns home from college with a shadow on his upper fin and chats with his grandfather who notes he looks more like his mother. The grandfather jokes that Bert must take after his mother since his father had a chin reaching mustache.
A court scene shows Miranda answering every question with I think so causing the attorney to warn her to stop thinking and speak. The exchange ends with Miranda insisting she cannot talk without thinking as the musician critic asks how his work pleases the professor who muses about future eras.
A telegraph insulator bracket was built into a Douglas fir tree near Arcata California and later sealed by growth. After 26 years the insulator vanished from view and the tree was felled converting the wood into stave bolts. The preserved insulator remains in the University of California forestry collection.
A Near East dispatch recalls Constantinople where dogs were sent to islands and left to die as progress moved on. Russian refugees now on those islands are helped by the Red Cross to make buttons from the dogs bones, though Turks refuse to buy them.
Lady Duff Gordon quips about wages and swollen pockets while recounting a club anecdote about a cook and a distant supper. Meanwhile raisin imports from Matuga Spain surged in early 1920, with nearly 8 million pounds exported to the United States, depleting 1919 Malaga stock and signaling continued demand.
French forests once protected and cultivated for centuries were heavily depleted by wartime needs and neglect. Government reports indicate over 40 000 trees a day were cut for four years, with more than two billion board feet of lumber destroyed and about 750 000 acres of valuable land left neglected.
A Brownville farmer encountered an unusually aggressive black bear in nearby woods. After the bear attacked with persistence, the farmer used two heavy clubs to feint and strike, driving the bear away and retreating to an open field.
District Court summons to unknown owners and heirs for land in Payette Idaho seeking to quiet title on the NW of Sec 26 Twp 8 N R 5 W. Court requires appearance within 20 to 40 days, December 1920 to January 1921 publications. Plaintiffs are Oliver Maxfield Henderson and Harlan Clyde Henderson with Norris & Sutton as attorneys.
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