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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1919
Page
2
Payett Enterprise lists weekly Burd column published Thursdays under editor Will Wells. Printer notes show filing with post office under 1919 act, indicating distribution through Pa tte Tifuho and date July 31, 1919.
Idaho's growth policy and anti radical stance are praised as stabilizing factors for home seekers and investors. A US postal rate debate threatens rural newspapers with higher costs, risking circulation. Prohibition tours and Navy recruitment notes fill the rest, with calls to education and public order.
The piece argues against reviving the postal zone system, warning it would endanger fixed postage principles, threaten free county mail for rural readers, and risk turning postal charges into subsidies. It emphasizes that free rural delivery is a public service funded by national taxes and should benefit the people, not be redirected as a subsidy to newspapers.
A business leader notes many savers fail in risk of overgeneralizing while the War Savings Director counters that the program urges intelligent spending. The aim is to replace carelessness with thrift and to fund future needs through prudent, postponed expenditures.
A fragmented critique argues editors should not dumb down rural readers. It stresses farmers’ growing literacy, farm clubs, and labor saving machinery as signs of progress. The piece asserts editors must match the country’s new spirit and rejects pandering to readers.
A Geographic expedition from Ute Yale reports new edible plants from Peru. They describe pigeweed as a potential grain crop and note peruan beer manufacture from a native product. A wild relative of the tomato with apple like flavor and a tree grown tomato are highlighted. The fruit "Ineuma" is prized for U S planting in Florida or southern California and a hardy desert vine may cross with tomatoes for edible traits.
A kettle linked to Ailesu sold for 30000 yen in the Matz nume antiques sale in Tokyo. About six hundred connoisseurs attended the auction featuring Oxke, Kl ing, Kobe and Tokyo pieces, drawing strong bidding from collectors. A Jersey cow sale notice appears from W D Case one mile south of town.
J A Strahan recalls a famous chancery case noted for brief evidence. The appeal court, misled by concise notes, sought the Judge's record and received a crude drawing of a greasy, evil-looking man labeled The Plaintiff, drawn for Pearson's Weekly.
A New York Sup observer notes a woman in a dressing room amid stylish shoppers at a velvet scene. Two fourteen year old girls preen with vanity, while a whispered plan for a frat meeting unsettles the older observer, who wonders about their future.
A crowded street car scene shows a man with a baby boy wrestling a swinging leather strap. The infant grabs the strap, misses, then catches it again as the crowd laughs and the father quips that the child will need such lessons if he stays in town.
Forest Service estimates total lumber cut at 82 760 000 000 feet for 1918 from 713 sawmills, each above five million feet. 1917 output reached 86 000 000 000 feet. decline broad across regions, greatest in the south and east, least in the west. In Marie's home the dry era debate continues as she asks if another drink can be had now that prohibition is in effect.
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