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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1923
Page
6
Mussels form strong anchoring cables on rocks and can shore up sea walls across Europe. Engineers in England used mussels to reinforce the Torekige Bridge at Bideford, Devon, saving the structure after an early collapse threat. Fresh supplies are periodically added to maintain strength.
In England the first act taxed playing cards with stamps on the wrapper and on a card. Confusion arose and later rules made the ace of spades the duty cape printed by authorities. Sheets of 20 spades were sold for a sovereign, then a threepence duty lowered the cost. Manufacturers printed their own aces, using the ace as a title page or advertisement.
Lunenburg, a quaint Nova Scotia fishing town, features fish flakes curing plants steep hills bold headlands shipyards and a large fleet of vessels. Settled by Hessians in George IV era, the town preserves early traces in lace-curtained windows and clang of church bells each Sunday.
Workmen along Boulevard St. Marcel near Jardin des Piintes uncover five stone coffins and numerous bones from a Merovingian period cemetery. The finds suggest only prominent individuals were buried in coffins then and indicate high status figures among the dead. A coffin contained a small amount of cloth, implying the interred was a great person. The graveyard likely served leaders of the community in rites for purifying the departed soul.
Edmund Hoyle, English writer (1672 1760), codified whist rules and later produced a famed book of games. His name became proverbial for following established rules, with "according to Hoyle" signaling strict adherence to the game's rites.
Public sale of three Jersey cows two Jersey calves and one Jersey bull aged about three years and one year old respectively to be held December 7 1923 at the A C Douglass place north of Fruitland Idaho. Cash in lawful money to the highest bidder.
Local ad fragment offers a house for rent and church notices for the Church of the Holy Family with Mass schedules mentioning the second and fifth Sundays. The page also notes hemstitching services at Farber’s and an advertisement for Willard batteries. A long, fragmented Times of London editorial excerpt about breakfast and a joke about celery appear as unrelated quotations.
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