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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1919
Page
6
An old classified page lists items for sale and lost property. It mentions spring or fall rye seed, a ladies gold watch, a small silver watch, a ladies ring with an opal, and a 1917 Ford. Found items urge return to the office for rewards or identification. Also included is a curious note on the origin of the term honeymoon referencing a bee secretion practice.
The Little Willow column lists honor roll pupils Walter Elan Flora Kelfor Mathie Kelfor Norma Roe Hazel Howard John Shimp Hazel Stirk Mary Ann Creacer and notes many community updates. The note reveals visits, marriages, moves, a Hallowe en social, and plans as residents share news from Ontario Payette and nearby areas.
In Alaska the mail dogs Malamutes and Huskies face harsh pay with a daily ration of one and a half pounds of dried salmon. They haul mail from river towns through eight month winters, with drivers driving hard and fish rations cut in off days. During summer they feed on fish refuse at fishing dumps, awaiting rivers to freeze.
The article describes cornerstone layings by Masons with regalia and a sealed copper box in Washington and notes presidents involved in such ceremonies. It then explains a Western Australian pig self feeder, a hogmeter, using a hopper grinder platform to distribute ground wheat, powered by the pig’s own snout with no waste and limited feeding concurrent pigs.
Frank the gateway to the Tumacacort mission cemetery has uncovered what is described as the first clue to buried padre treasure. Reports say maps and plans left by the Jesuit padres begin at the gateway and point toward gold and silver caches. The Tumacacort mission, near the ruins linked to stories of the Seven Cities of Cibola, sits in a region said to hide rich mineral deposits that guided the padres to establish the settlement.
The Exchange notes a claim that life-savers revived a drowning victim after six minutes submerged. It challenges the belief that persons can be resuscitated after long water submersion, citing cases of hours under water and warning drowning is a rapid death and water hazards are real.
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