Sunday Closing Law in Ada County Boldly Enforced in 1877
The Idaho Territory legislature enacted a stringent Sunday closing act for Ada County Boise, approved January 1877. It prohibited merchants from selling goods, forbade amusements and certain performances, and banned sale of intoxicants on Sundays, with fines from 10 to 50 dollars for violations. Mayor Hawley recalls that enforcement was irregular but the law existed and was not repealed in 1878.
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Boise
Cshetoe
Bofee Statesman
Territory of
Idaho
Ada County
Jackson Day
Hawley
Sesson
Automobile Legislation Regulates Use of Automobiles on Public Roads
A new statute requires owners to file names and addresses with the secretary of state, display a certificate number on vehicles, and pay a fee. Non residents may be exempt if compliant with other colonies. Vehicles must have mufflers and brakes, speed limits apply in towns, horses must be controlled when approached, and arrests carry fines and bail provisions with timelines for case handling.
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Reson
Secretary of State
Danish Bacon Industry's Rise in Co operative Factories
In 1880s Danish farmers formed a cooperative bacon curing system after German import curbs on Danish live pigs. By 1888 output topped 25 047 pigs valued at 57 9090, and by 1902 twenty seven factories operated, processing around two and a half million pigs with average value per pig rising from £7 4s in 1885 to about £12 in 1902.
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Germany
Hey Porte
Denmark
Fragmented text on a cultural naming ceremony from a newspaper
The passage describes a naming ritual for a four year four month old girl with references to religious phrases and ceremonial recitations. It mentions a child in a gold dress with a wreath, elders guiding the ceremony, and present gathering as gifts are promised. The oblique narrative appears as a pasted OCR fragment from Edmund Rus in Evers Bovly's.
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Abe
God
Bibi
Sbhabash
Wah
Wahi
Edmund Rus
Evers Bovly
Engiled Prison Pits In English Castles
Describes medieval prison pits used to confine criminals at night in England. Bristol housed an underground vault eighteen steps below ground, seventeen feet diameter by nine feet high, holding seventeen men nightly. Warwick jail pit, octagonal, twenty one feet diameter, nineteen feet underground, with a central cesspool and water stream for drinking. Forty-two prisoners were moved there each afternoon at 3:45 and kept until morning. Inmates slept on their sides and guards carried antidotes against illness.
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England
Bristol
Isd
Warwick
Cesspool
The Deodand and Three Methods of Derision
A compact note discusses deodands in English law ending in 1846, with notes on early uses and literary references. It then moves to a Dante Rossetti anecdote about the Holborn casino and a quip about Tennyson. The piece ends with a brief item on Persius and mockery in Latin literature, titled Notes and Queries.
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Tennyson
Dante Rossetti
High Holborn
Ronsetti
Holborn
Ike
Perater
Alr
Dante
Persius
The Snake Tongue and Other Readings
The piece describes the snake tongue as a key sense organ for feeling and navigation, detailing a forked tip and nerve-rich epidermis. It also contrasts nature’s constant change with a humorous fiction snippet about Hawley writing for a tailor, and a gag about a pill seemingly shedding its coat before travel, ending with a bitter experience quote.
Origins and history of the musical encore
The note traces the encore from 15th century France to royal demand for repetition in opera. Louis XIII, Corneille, Fontenelle, and Bolleau figures mark early royal privity. Gluck revives failed works after rewriting, and memory of Bavaria's king shows lavish encores. French term origin noted.
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France
IHS
Louis Aly
Corneille
Fontenelle
Bolleau
Gluck
Bavaria
New York Herald
The Russian Icon A Religious Picture Blessed by a Priest
A detailed note explains that an icon is a religious image used in Greek church worship and may appear as mosaics paintings enamels or prints. Icons require blessing by a priest and serve as spiritual accessories beyond mere decoration. Soldiers and regiments keep icons, often wearing them as plaques or book leaves, kneeling before them in prayer.
Price of a Life Under Anglo-Saxon Law
The London Telegraph notes Anglo-Saxon law fixed each life value, peasants at 200 shillings, nobles at 1200, and a king at 7200 shillings. Heir murder could purge the offense by paying the scale to the exchequer, returning funds to the killer, as sovereign fines were personal perquisites.
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England
London Telegraph
True Edged Punishment Tale From a Late Morning
An English schoolmaster punishes late scholars by increasing detention time. When he himself is half an hour late a clever pupil suggests the class punish him back, so all students stay and keep him in for an hour that afternoon. The story uses light humor to mirror the lesson in discipline.
Browning Letter to a Young Poet About Publishing
A Browning letter replies to a young poet seeking adview on publishing a poetry volume. He notes it would be odd for him to claim authority, recalling he once printed at his own expense long ago, and recalls a humorous exchange with The Young Woman and The Penetration. The Chicago Tribune quote frames the anecdote.
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Browning
Chicago Tribune
Marriage Plans Amid 1866 Moon Myths at Boston Store
The fragment notes a couple named Hettling and Smith-Jones planning marriage. A quip about remaining single arises. A claim cites no full moon in February 1866 and a forecast of the next such moon in 2,400,002, with a stray mention of a 4 percent rebate on cash purchases at the Boston Store.
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Roosevelt
Boston
National Irrigation Congress Expands For Portland Meeting
The National Irrigation Congress to meet next month in Portland will enlarge its scope to five sections led by eminent authorities. Key topics include irrigation production in humid and arid regions, forestry, flood protection engineering, drainage, climatology, and colonization. Leaders include Gifford Pinchot, A C True, Frederick H Newell, H K Williams, and Charles W Eberlein. an extensive reclamation service exhibit will be shown at the Lewis and Clark Exposition.
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Portland
National Irrigation Congress
New England
Appalachian Chain
Rocky and Sternt Nevada Mountains
Weather Bureau
United States
Gifford Pinchot
Bureau of Forestry
Washington, D. C
A. C. True
Washington, Dt
Frederick H. Newell
Serice
Washington, DC
H. K. Williams
Charles W. Eberlein
Southern Pacific Land Department
San Francisco
Firld
Reclamation Service
T4 Ataiten
Care of Harness and Cleaning Steps for Hammers
Instructional notice on taking hammers to a room, disassembling, washing parts in lukewarm water with potash, scrubbing grease away, soaking until supple, air drying slowly, then oiling with cod liver oil, and finally rubbing with a soft rag to finish. Warns against using nails or glue and notes mice are deterred by oil.
Hidden sentinel guards a palace graveyard for 182 years
A veteran recalls a czarist tale of a grass plot sentinel placed after a rumor that Empress Catherine the Great once saw flowers blooming under snow. An early 18th century sighting led to a daily guard remaining for generations. Also included are short old time notes on sore throat remedies and humorous quips about manners and anatomy.
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Catherine
Donn's Kidney Pills Promoted By Pendleton Testimony
In a promotional notice a Pendleton resident Mrs. J. L. Hodson testifies that Donn's Kidney Pills strengthened her back and improved her health after a cold tightened in the loins. The ad urges purchase from Brock & McComns Co. drug store with Foster-Milburn Co. as sole U.S. agents. Also advertised is a seaside rail itinerary to Long Beach and others via O. R. & N. with a $13.15 fare and Portland stopover details.
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JL Hodson
Adin Street
Donn
Brock & McComns Co
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. C
United States
Long Beach
Breakers
Ocean Park
Ocean Side
Sea View
Clatsop Beach
Portland
B.C. Smith
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Smith—Jones
Jones
Cottle
National Congress
J. B. Despain
Umatilla County
HR. F. Payne
Payne
Idaho Falls
Deamarain
Dalles
Ore
Simonton Biros
Corley
Aura St
Webb & Alta
Pendleton
Polydore Moens, Prop
Riverside Avenue Dairy
ED Morgan
Ers
Philadelphia Press
Mr. Meekton
Norborne
Norbore
Schedul Pendleton-Ukiah
Ukiah
Pes Neton
Menadieton
P. m. Mendieton
Alba
Vonditen Vo Ridge
Endleton
Nye
Moony
Dean
Union Pacific
Pullman Standard
Omaha
Chicago
Kangan
City
Pullman
Mall & Express
Spokane
Walla Walla
E. C. Smith
Washington & Columbia River Railroad
Vicago
St. Paul
St. Louis
Kans City
St. Joseph
Sound
Taare
Laenwe
Bop. m
Adame
Oregon
Calderhead
G@ P
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Paul
Minneapolis
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Fargo
Grand Forks
Crookston
Winnipeg
Helena and
Butte
Philadelphia
New York
All Points
Japan
Chiom
The
Tacomas and
Northern Pacific Steamship Co
American the
Adama
Charlton Third
Morrison
Portland, Or
Dini
Denver and Rio Grande
Ogden
Denver
M'Bride
General Agens
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