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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1918
Page
2
The piece calls for a new type of public servant at state and local levels, urging higher integrity and patriotism, criticizing demagoguery and political self interest while praising voluntary service. It also discusses historical pest control lessons and the dangers of unintended ecological tinkering.
A 1917 Leipzig paper recounts a lotter tale from Silesia where a farm bailiff orders a family to quit their cottage on January 1 1918 to make way for farm labor and support the landlord's needs as winter approaches, leaving a wife and children in distress while the husband is at the front.
War risk insurance applications from Army and Navy members have surpassed 3 billion dollars, with daily intake around 60 million. The average per man is 8620 dollars, rising since the act began. For those enlisted before October 15, 1917, the final applying date is February 12. Maximum available per man is 10,000 dollars.
A collage of World War I era verses and jokes from a 1917-1918 era page. It blends patriotic poems about soldiers in France with light afternoontype humor and local notices, ending with a delinquent stock assessment notice for the Lower Payette Ditch Company in Idaho. The pieces reference Rainbow brigades, blue and gray, and the call to remember fallen soldiers alongside community notices and local business ads.
War credits extended to foreign governments since the United States entered the war total 4 236 400 000. Britain received 2 045 000 000, France 1 285 000 000, Italy 5000 000 000, Russia 425 000 0, Belgium 77 400 000, Serbia 4 000 000.
An advertisement lists a cheap piano sale from Payette and a few Sil ver laced Wyandotte cockerels for sale with a separate alfalfa delivery notice. A December 20 1917 notice in Yale Oregon records Thomas C Thompson of Payette Idaho seeking final five year proof on land in Township 17S Range 47E Willamette Meridian with witnesses named. hearing set January 29 1918.
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