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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1920
Page
3
Local ads offer salesmen with car a $50 to $2000 weekly potential selling Coraja patch, not rubber or khaki. Territory free, start with a $6 order. Also seeks state managers with $500 to $1000 capital promising $500 to $2000 monthly. Kidney health ad follows with testimonial for Doan's Kidney Pills priced 60 cents, urging purchase.
A student traps the natural history professor with a riddle about snakes. In class the pupil asks where a snake’s tail begins. The professor stays calm and finally answers that the tail begins at the end of the snake that is not the head.
The Imperial government railways of Japan will study and plan a tunnel under the Shimonoseki Strait to connect Hondo and Kushu. Two years of geological and engineering work precede construction, with a seven mile line mostly underground, cost about 10 million dollars and completion targeted for 1923, as engineers travel to America and Europe for knowledge.
An aero squadron prepares for front service through close order drill. Most men know their gear, but No 3 rear rank fourth squad is lost. The cadet hallucinates, then answers his number 284526 from the Home Sector, revealing the service identity in a hazy training scene.
A tiny girl Lois asks who lights the heavens when the street lamps come on. After learning a man at the electric plant turns lights on, she wonders why God does not fix the moon’s tilt at that moment. Her grandma explains God lights the world and sometimes things aren’t perfectly aligned.
The article explains that 1858 half dollars come in two varieties. The rare type lacks arrows at the date and a sunburst on the reverse and only two specimens are known. The common 1853 style with arrows and sunbursts is widespread and misleads collectors.
The district court in Payette County Idaho issued an alias summons against Eli Hawkins Zillah Hawkins George W Schwilk and Edward F McGough in a foreclosure action to recover 10.87 plus interest penalties and costs on tax certificate 1178 dated January 8 1917 covering a NE quarter of the SE quarter Section 26 Township 9 N Range 5 W E M. Defendants must answer within 20 days within the district or 40 days elsewhere. The notice includes bids for Payette Equity Exchange building project and other local notices.
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