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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1913
Page
5
Local items from Fruitland and nearby areas report John Cartwright visiting his gravely ill son Harry with typhoid pneumonia, families visiting for Thanksgiving, and numerous relocations and visits across Idaho and Oregon. Other notes include guests from Welser and Kimberley, convalescence after operations, and community plans for winter housing and work.
Mrs J H Spainhower notes Payette visitors, including Mary Glesler, at 40 cents per story. Cary Tunsing to attend week of instruction for general interest. Attorney A P Humborg arrives from Chicago to visit sister in Ficken family, then to Olinda and Wood Dura Oregon, Mt Angel WA to join a business trip. Mr Hamburg travels with DWnols Central railroad. Ralph Kess family relocates to Payette for winter. Mrs Alsop and Lucy late visit E T Law's. Rev Tetwiler to Roberts for new Baptist circuit with four churches.
A long memory of a November 21 wedding anniversary sur prise party for E P Nokes and his bride, plus Mr Frosts 27th birthday, and various dinners, church messages, Grange gatherings, and local notices. Recaps include guests, gifts, meals, and upcoming community programs across Payette and nearby areas.
M B Sherman shipped about four tons of dried raspberries from Kimberley, while 30,000 pounds remain for sale. J and McKinney brand and feed 150 cattle from the south. A new 60 by 44 barn foundation is laid near Pruitland. W H Vestal discusses an accident in eastern Oregon. The Mothers' Circle and W C T U raised a large charity load for the Children’s Home. Spokane Apple Show honors Idaho and eastern Oregon growers with prizes totaling about 127 dollars. Local officials attend meetings and announce forthcoming events and sales.
Telegram sent Wednesday afternoon reports her mother critically ill and the teacher departed that evening for Pasadena to be at her bedside. Nellie Cook from Bolsa will supply until her return which is indefinite. Iola Westcott and Fern Linck stayed with John Andersons Thursday. Ontario second team and Fruitland Pridey seventh and fifth grade teams played a football game Friday night. the 18 to 0 victory boosted team spirit with hopes for improved luck this season.
The piece recalls a rainy afternoon with Longfellow, Sumner, and Appleton as jokes and anecdotes flow. Summer, unimpressed by Poe or Longfellow’s verse, quips about spelling while others reminisce about Appleton, Lord Exmouth, and quirky tales from early memories in a humorously literary salon.
A Harper's Weekly excerpt describes gold leaf production with beating sheets thin, copper or silver alloy added, and careful transfer by breath. Female packers handle sheets between molds and booklets, with a skilled operator assembling roughly twenty two leaves per book and about seventy books packed daily.
A Boston Back Bay house quiets as science explains a haunting as carbon monoxide from a furnace. Disturbed sleep and eerie sounds in the third and fourth floors traced to gas poisoning, not supernatural forces.
In 1903 a message from a Georgia family describes heart trouble and a long line of doctors warning of death. After using Miles Heart Remedy and Restorative Nervine, the husband improved and the North Georgian Conference praised his recovery in 1904.
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