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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1917
Page
2
A Idaho newspaper comment discusses promoting honest grading and stable markets for potatoes. It urges strict refuse to misgrade, ties quality to reputation, and warns against cheap trash affecting district sales, emphasizing policy to support labor and fair prices for farmers during wartime.
Learn what foods and amounts your family needs to be efficient. Write to the U S Department of Agriculture in Washington DC or your State agricultural college for bulletins on the nature and uses of foods and how to feed your family economically to get the greatest nourishment from every pound of food.
A damaged line shows a growl-like question about whether a married daughter and her husband live with the speaker. The fragment includes unclear phrasing and possible gossip or household inquiry. No clear names, dates, or places are readable.
Interstate officials endorse Vergreen Highway plans praising the work and noting Hill comments as great for the North region. The statement underscores support from federal and regional authorities.
Lewiston hosts Interstate Highway association officials and Lewiston Commercial Club delegates to press Evergreen highway planning and cross state cooperation. The group aims to connect North Yakima Walla Walla Pasco Pomeroy Clarkston with Lewiston and on to Montana Idaho to create all winter transit from the east to the coast. Officials from Idaho and Washington discuss a national publicity campaign and pathfinding with Yellowstone Trail and Sunshine Way.
For week ending May 12 1917 the notice lists Adams, Clayton Goldes, Miss Goldie Kiley, Mrs H T Line, R W Wison, Harvey Weyatt, Miss Amelia E B Bowman, FP M For Sale a fresh cow. J Richardson Route 1 Box 98.
A low cost evaporative refrigerator design using a wooden frame covered in Canton flannel. It uses a water pan and wicks to cool the interior to around 50 degrees on hot days. Instructions cover frame size 2 1/2 by 12 by 15 inches, shelves, coverings, and latch hooks for a leak resistant door.
G L Herrington, state club agent for the University of Florida extension division, reports that about a dozen Florida counties have formed pig clubs and many more may follow. The plan uses corn from each member’s acre to feed pigs, with bankers, boards of trade, and school boards supporting the effort. County agents should ensure proper feeding, pasturing, and safeguards for loans used to buy animals.
A quirky exchange between Dick and a ten year old companion questions horse fear of cars. The conversation ends with a boast about missing a suit walking alone, followed by an abrupt street note about Richardson at Route 1 box 28.
An Oregon(Welser area) estray ad lists six to seven animals by color, brand, and leg marks including sorrel mares and horses, a two year old dark grey, and a brown colt unbranded with a crash on a hind leg. An Idaho notice from Wiser requests information about a wreck and lists more stock and a bay horse with spavin and other horses and mares, with contact via W H Bicklu and phone 108-w.
Sir Charles Wyndham faced a warm afternoon after presenting Elaine at a society gathering. Gladstone admitted he slept through the performance, while Wyndham exclaimed the audience enjoyed a classic sweat and tea followed.
For high quality stock ranches bearing orchards and diversified ranches see the Payette Valley Real Estate Agency.
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