Registration Notice and Miscellany from 1917
The notice lists the June 5 1917 registration day for males 21 to 30 and directs them to register at polling places or via county clerks, with penalties for noncompliance. It includes names of county officials and references to nonresident procedures. Also contains scattered anecdotes and items on law, church notices, icebergs, sturgeon eggs, and a rental ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Congress
Canyon County
Just Your Cheese and Odd Questions From a Kid
A narrator recalls how adults answer curious kid questions about silly topics such as who will bury the last man and why a chicken cannot cross its legs. A childhood memory of asking about the man in the moon leads to four licks from an elder. Mentions cheese prices Idaho and Wisconsin full cream.
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Aun
Idaho
Wisconsin
Parson Passes Pickles Then Jokes Lead to Fire Breath
A minister, known for carrying a bottle and a parrot of sorts, ate with pickles before a stranger sat down. The man asked for the pickles. The minister jokingly complied and the stranger later gasped as he was made to breathe through tears. The stranger noted the minister’s dress and guessed his profession. He asked if the preacher spoke of hell, to which the minister replied he does so occasionally. The stranger claimed the minister was the first parson he met who carried samples.
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Divine
Hell
Harper's Magazine
Local Social Notes and Obituary From Payette
Miss May Genoway hosted the O K Club and Miss An selina Burns left for Boise After a year as Payette Central School’s fourth grade teacher Miss Burns also hosted a Sunday School class Miss Helen Levers led her Christian Church class on Wednesday They enjoyed a fine time and refreshments Obituary Howard Lauer son of Mr and Mrs Milt Lauer died at the Commercial hotel in Payette after four weeks illness Born August 22 1895 he died May 22 1917 aged 21 years 9 months Survived by his parents three brothers and a sister Funeral at the Presbyterian Church with Rev M D Reed Interment Riverside Cemetery Also a Grange Hall lecture by H H Stallard on How Nehemiah Would Right The Economic Build of Today and a Lost Roan gelding with white feet up Big Willow name August Truelsen
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Helen Levers
The
Christian Church
Honard Lauer
Milt Lauer
Denver
Qolo
Payette
Howard Lauer
Presbyterian Church
M. D. Reed
Iin Riverside Cemetery
Portland Rose Festival Special Rates Announcement 1917
June 13 14 and 15 1917 Portland Rose Festival special excursion rates to be set for Oregon Short Line stations. Announcement of rates to follow for eligible stations and travel details.
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Portland
Ford Touring Co. ad offers 1916 Maxwell in good condition
An old classified notice lists an E M F 1500 lb track priced at 165 dollars and a 1916 Maxwell in good condition offered by New Ford Touring Co for 475 dollars.
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New Ford Touring Co
Maxwell
Goddard's meteoric rise from Paris to Chicago Grand Opera
The article traces Goddard's career from a Paris debut heard by Jean de Reszke in 1011 and hailed as Edouard de Reszke's successor, through Covent Garden and London press, a six year Royal Grand Opera contract disrupted by war, to his return to America with the Chicago Grand Opera Company where he remains a versatile member alongside Ruth Ray the violinist.
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Croor
Chicago
Geraldine Farrer
Goddard
Jean de Reszke
Paris
Edouard de Reszke
England
Covent Garden
London
Vienna
Royal Grand Opera
America
Companini
Chicago Grand Opera Company
Ruth Ray
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Studebaker
California
Motor Vehicle Department
State Oapitol
Sacramento
Studebakf
Detroit
Mich
Stanton Bros
Globe Wernicke
Canyon Downe
County Board of Registration
Geo. W. Froman
L. €. Knowlton
Philadelphia
Chicago Herald
Charles Phillipps
Central Criminal Court
Perhap
Phillipps
Uria
Baron Gurney
Gurney
London Globe
Ing
P. A. Benson
C. Payette
Draper
Norland
Trent Avenue
Spokane
Washington
Oregon
Pure Food Store
J. ,D. Baker
H. H. Stallard
Grange Hall
Nehimiah
Big Willow
August Truelson
Oakland
Hart Schaffner & Marx
E. C. Keith & Son
James Goddard
Chicago Grand Opera
Chautauqua
Haines
Auqua
Fremstad
Julia Claussen
Macleanan
Mises
Robert Yale Smith
Chantauaua
Caiarauaus
G. W. Moore
W. H. Klingebiehl
Sixth Street
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