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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
2
The Payette Enterprise prints weekly issues under Will Wells as owner and editor. The page reprints Christian Science Sentinel excerpts urging balanced life and health, focusing on the mind’s impact on well being and the need for cheerful work.
A Commerce and Finance piece recounts a son writing to his deceased father about learning his wisdom after years of misunderstanding. Read by Charles H. Howard at a St. Louis chamber luncheon, the letter speaks of regret, reconciliation, and a son’s admission of his own faults.
A fragmented notice notes railroads plan changes affecting dining car service with concerns over spotless tables and full silverware. The text hints at passenger discontent and potential reductions in in-journey dining amenities.
The passage rails at rising dining car prices and service changes for rail travelers. It condemns hourly meals, self service, and pay-as-you-go systems as dehumanizing, fearing it will drive people to stay home rather than continue traveling.
Maria Adelida Pinto de Magallanes Quintanilla, born in Portugal, becomes the first Brazilian woman to receive a Doctor of Agronomical Engineering degree. She hails from a noted Magellan lineage and is the third sister in her family to attain a doctorate, after two elder siblings in law and pharmaceutics.
A vivid excerpt shows a man tormenting a pleading young woman with a cruel smile and biting words. He dictates the next scene in which she may be suspended from a building while the heroine is forced to confront despair and a dramatic peril. The piece ends with the girl discarding an onion as a symbolic act.
European sources list green weed species such as varecs, zostera, brown algae, and Laminaria as valuable supplies. France Britain and Norway harvest about 400000 tons annually, yielding iodine, potassium salts, crude sea salt, and lye, with aims to boost iodine and potash extraction.
A humorous note highlights Maurice Maeterlinck’s futile bid to lecture in English in a French restaurant setting. The remark imagines a parallel to those who struggle with language barriers in cosmopolitan venues.
Mr. Fox cannot reach grapes and hires Teddy and Billy Bear to climb for him. They supply the grapes and Mr. Fox promises honey, but never pays. The bears later replace his wine with vinegar. He drinks it, gets sick, and learns a hard lesson about honesty.
A long list of Payette residents signed guarantees for this year’s Chautauqua, supporting Lyceum courses to boost living prices and community culture. Chairman J. E. Tarver and secretary H. Hogue Gee lead the effort to secure season tickets before opening day.
A poem by Meerally spreads across the globe, republished in many newspapers and nations. The owner recalls a dinner with Thomas W. Lawson and jokes about publishing power, then shifts to a reflective verse about trouble and resilience. Classified notices list farm plants for sale and a team of horses available for trade in Idaho and Fruitland.
Argyl Church of God led by Pastor Houser invites all to all day Sunday worship. Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. preaching at 11:00 a.m. and 7:40 p.m. meal at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. goal speeches with Miss Hilda Brown and youth activities. Bible study Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
Classified items include a crab colored baby carriage offered at 45 dollars with good condition and reasonable price by Chas Haring. Also celery plants priced with 50 per hundred from M.R.B. Ingleson Grimes ranch Fruitland with contact numbers.
FOR SALE Cabbage and louse plants Mrs. C KE Genoway. WANTED To Rent Four or five room furnished modern house Chas Marlowe Emma Theatre. FOR SALE Well cured Hay in shock $15 per ton four miles north of Payette at Tool Ranch J A Bowers or Payette Equity Exchange.
The writer states the dental office near the post office will close for one day starting Monday June 21 while they take a vacation. The note is signed by Wells.
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