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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1921
Page
6
Anson-Hart Grocery offers A and H FLOUR at $1.18 per sack with guaranteed quality. Rent notice advertises a furnished house one block from the high school, contact 161 9-2-2. Payette Pharmacy promotes Lavoptik eye wash claiming improvement for weak or inflamed eyes, with an aluminum eye cup free.
A Kentucky colored man brings tobacco to an Indiana warehouse on the Ohio River. After weighing and unloading costs surpass the tobacco value, he owes 59 cents. With no cash, they joke about paying with a chicken. A week later he returns with two chickens, claiming another load of tobacco.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports second year student John Jeffries V of England, with an $80,000 yearly income, seeks a stenographer to aid dictation and shorthand, including Sundays, to assist in his law studies at Penn. He already has one stenographer but needs another staffer for Blackstone notes and case work. He is noted as wealthy yet modest in living, with notable family ties.
Rev Ulysses G Murphy of the American Bible Society warned in Honolulu that zero percent of Japanese in sugar plantation camps have faced Christian propaganda and Americanization efforts risk failing if they ignore home life and Japanese language schools. He noted the elder generation is about forty years behind Japan in modern thought due to isolation and urged that language schools be addressed to reach the community.
In a Terre Haute ward school contest, a teacher tested children on recognizing tunes by ear. After hearing Home Sweet Home and Old Black Joe, a pupil misread Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms as Oh it s that believe me in tears all slit your charms.
The American Forestry Magazine notes croquet attracts more players than golf or tennis but produces less expert development. It says croquet costs are largely tied to wooden equipment, with pockets of weed used for torches occasionally, and highlights croquet gear is mostly wood aside from torches sometimes made of bent wood.
A fragmentary report notes a 680 carat emerald claimed as the largest in the world from a South American country. It mentions emeralds from the Ural mountains and references weights around six and a half pounds with unclear details.
A Chicago contractor retained a lawyer to draft his will. The fee was paid and the client seemed satisfied, yet the next day he phoned in a panic claiming the matter was not properly adjusted. He joked that the will left him with no chair to sit on. This item references a Philadelphia Ledger anecdote about a stubborn will and a humorous twist.
Forest office announces postponement of grazing fees to December 1 under congressional authorization. Permittees must pay by then to give stockmen time to market wool and returns, providing relief to the nation’s stock growers. Surprise Payette Adler-Ika remedy touted for digestive relief and bowel cleansing with testimonials.
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