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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1914
Page
4
The committee invites all to a four event at Orcutt's Grave featuring a revolutionary period scene reproduction and a new flag building scene by thirty six young ladies. A ball game between the Colithumpians and Orientials will entertain, with no fire crackers, table space for all, and a refreshment stand offering hot coffee.
A San Francisco editor contrasts opium and whisky policies, noting China’s limits, America’s power, and the will to abolish opium. The piece touches on cultural effects, and ponders why Americans prefer whisky over opium amid official restraint and personal choice.
A reprinted extract criticizes liquor costs versus public outlay, arguing most taxes go to graft and espionage. Then items describe 40 electric locomotives for Panama Canal locking, each 82,500 lb, 47,500 lb tractive effort, rack rail propulsion, six may be needed for large ships, with windlass capacity 800 ft of steel hawser. Also notices: Sheriff sale in Idaho, mortgage foreclosure of Payette land, and pay warrants for Little Willow District.
The United States faces a bumper wheat crop with estimates near a billion bushels. Analysts anticipate enough spring wheat to meet domestic needs and export capacity, though the exact dollar value remains uncertain.
A Tuesday evening program at the Commercial Club features Misses Rachel and Helen Thurston, recently returned from Whitman Conservatory, performing works by Bercuse Saint-Saens MacDowell and a descriptive Danse Macabre. The bill includes piano pieces and a warded note on a gold watch auction in Idaho where Miss Ruby Landon inquires about a six year old horse and buggy.
Real estate notice offers 80 residence lots with free water for irrigation and several finished homes. Prices range from 160 to 900 dollars, including a four room house and an eight room furnace-equipped residence with basement and barn. Central listings claim bargains on corner and mine corner lots in a block.
Notice of sheriff sale in Canyon County Idaho to satisfy H C Griswold's foreclosure decree against Thomas M Adams and Louie A Adams. Property: NW quarter of Sec 21 T7N R5W Boise Meridian. Sale July 18 1914 at 11 AM in Caldwell courthouse yard. Cash in lawful money to highest bidder. Breshette Sheriff. Deputy A G Street..pub June 26 last July 16 1914
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