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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1917
Page
4
Property advertises five acres with a building three quarters of a mile from Payette-C road. Contact Draper at telephone 285-13 for details dated January 11. Also a fresh cow for sale listed by J I Richardson Route 1 box 38. Dog tax due at City Clerk office with early payment before June 16 to save.
Instructions outline a method using soap and turpentine to transfer images from magazines and letters to paper cloth glass or china. A gallon hot water dissolves one bar soap plus a half pint turpentine and rests overnight. Apply with brush or fingers then press material face down to receive the transfer, rubbing the back to move the design. Glass transfers require transparent varnish first. china transfers follow the same steps. Also listed are classified ads for seed oats and rental properties.
A wall of bold appeals urges action to fund government and saloon interests, including a call for one million dollars and “100,000 boys” to be sacrificed to the liquor trade. Parallel items mention red rum murder, a call for sturgeon eggs with shipping prices, and a high grade piano sale in Payette with Denver Music Company contact.
A steamer in a sudden tempest on a Great Lake sinks with all aboard. Edgar Ryerson faces death while Miriam mourns a hidden love for him. Years later a house party reveals the truth as a masque ends with poetic reflection on joy and recovery.
Local classified notices list items for sale including a slightly used piano trade for livestock and goods, a sorrel horse stallion for sale, White Rock eggs for setting, Netted Gem and rural seed potatoes for sale, a Percheron stallion, Persian Carpet cleaning paste, and an incubator wanted. Contact details include A R McCarty Nyssa Oregon J D Baker and Mrs G W Moore.
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