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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1917
Page
2
War finance appeals, factory and labor notes, and local agricultural results appear in this Payette Enterprise snippet. It highlights Liberty Loan progress, women entering lumber work, and state fair prize listings plus a crowded scroll of notices, prices, and weather.
Allied war orders in the United States total 35 million shells, tying up 101 million pounds of copper, 46.75 million pounds of spelter, and 173,250 pounds of lead. Details of metal content per shell trace copper, brass, spelter, lead, steel, and propellant production steps from alloy to smokeless powder.
The article discusses a comparatively new theory explaining why continents remain in place despite surface elevation changes. It cites studies suggesting continents stay buoyant due to lighter rock, with mountains retaining height from low density rather than strength alone. It notes density differences extend to about sixty miles underground and that valleys and coastal plains sit thin with denser material below.
London observer notes tall yarns in the In and Out club as wartime odds blur truth. A German submarine Pritz lies submerged near the east coast of Ireland until a gunboat locates it. A diver taps Morse code with a hammer threatening a bomb, prompting Fritz to surface.
Wanted Cull apples of any variety in Idaho at 85.50 per ton. Buyers seek delivery to Idaho location for processing or sale.
For sale or exchange a modern eight room house with outbuildings and shade trees. Lot measures 190 by 300 feet, close in. Will sell on easy terms or exchange for a sitter place. For particulars call at the Enterprise office.
A London Spectator excerpt explores how children imagine and interpret the world with innocence and humor. The piece recounts anecdotes of children mishearing phrases, fearing authors, and forming peculiar beliefs about adults and events.
A Los Angeles man with a tiny yard creates a strawberry patch in a barrel per Popular Mechanics. Holes are drilled in the barrel sides and tin cans stacked through the center form irrigation, with soil added as vines hang from each hole. Water drains via a side hole near the bottom.
Notice is hereby given that the sprinkling assessment roll for the City of Payette Idaho for the year has been filed in the office of the City Clerk. Objections to the assessment roll must be made by October 16 1997 at 11 o clock am. The city council will meet to hear and consider objections. Martin C Luther City Clerk.
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