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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1921
Page
2
Strong-voiced column denounces aliens and supports native American workers while citing banking leaders and roading investments. Includes figures on 1920 railroad spending, car and locomotive orders, and a Payette County census summary with farm counts, land value, and crop data.
GHav P Thayer of Payette Idaho, 76, fulfilled a lifelong plan to tramp across the continent from New York to California. He began at age 11 and endured Civil War borders and hardships, finally reaching Muraker street in California after decades of travel through Michigan Dakota and Idaho. He plans to visit relatives and stop at the Young Men's Christian Association in San Francisco. The tale reflects a boyhood dream realized after a 64 year odyssey.
Bertin Braley argues in a reflective piece that simple maxims from old copybooks retain moral force. He contrasts modern cynicism with timeless proverbs stating honesty leads to happiness, duty, and steady virtues that endure despite changing tastes.
The Payette YMCA announces a boxing and wrestling exhibition Tuesday evening January 25 with bleacher expansion, ringside seats at a premium. Featured bouts include Arthur Bean vs Charles Mitchell, Ralph Walker vs Eddie Nelson, Manaman vs Ralph Mitchell, and a six round main event Welty of Denver against Del Adams of Weiser. Tickets go on sale at the YMCA box office and in nearby towns. smoking and betting are banned. a second exhibition is planned for late February.
County champions from Payette and other counties attended a three day state seed show in Nampa. The event featured livestock, pure seeds, sewing and bread demonstrations, a tour of Carnation Milk Condensery, and a banquet hosted by the Nampa Commercial Club. Payette winners included Dora Henningson in sewing and Lester Glaser in handicraft.
Friday afternoon in the M M dining room the ladies of the WR served a wimponene to husbands and W T Sherman Post members. Officers were installed for a new year with Mrs Elizabeth Clanton as President and May McGlinchey addressing the assembly. Out-of-town attendees included Mrs Guibert L King and others from Onario.
The Mesopotamian oil field remains underdeveloped as British interests show no urgency to prospect despite abundant reserves. Arabs resist labor demand while Kurds perform the work, including heavy lifting for railroad and irrigation projects. An American oil firm faces obstacles amid import bias and wartime labor shortages.
A fragmented excerpt features banter about money and political moves with names like Acme and Kricker is Jones. Characters discuss wealth and authorial advantage while a tense romantic undertone surfaces in clipped dialogue and self aware asides.
Physiolograta report from the New York Evening Post notes that after measuring hundreds of skeletons men in the middle ages were only one to two centimeters shorter on average than modern men. They argue modern shoulders fit better, and that knights bore less weight than commonly believed as horses carried most of the burden.
A festival in Mandalay featured a new pagoda crown raised to 300 feet, drawing Buddhists from Indo China the Himalayas Laos Chan Siam and crowds from distant locales. Workers built bamboo scaffolding like a toboggan slide to hoist the gilded cap over six days with seven to fasten it in place.
A stray paragraph lists nineteen wars for the United States with ten Indian wars among them. Major items likely include the Revolution, 1812, Mexican, Civil, Spanish, and World War I era conflicts. Minor clashes mention France 1798, Tripoli 1808, and the Philippine War of 1899.
A health note recommends rubbing the face with ordinary sweet table cream before washing to ease sunburn. It describes warm, non-irritating treatment and warns against common cold creams that can irritate sensitive skin.
An officer questions a young colored deckhand who joined at the cape. The boy, calling himself Algon By, says he was not born and was washed ashore in a storm, sparking intrigue about his origins and status aboard the vessel.
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