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Newspaper
Preston Booster
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1912
Page
6
The New York Press describes poi, Hawaii’s national dish made from taro, and a poi supper as a social institution. It details how locals eat by dipping fingers, wrist movements, and shared calabash rituals, noting initial foreign hesitation and eventual acceptance as the flavor of poi shifts from fork to finger.
Community notices from Preston Utah and nearby towns include dental and contracting ads, travel visits, bargains at Luthys store, housing to rent, a newborn, band engagements, a marriage announcement, a lecture on woodcraft, social events in Whit ney ward, and upcoming ward conferences and a funeral. Sheriff invited to Intermountain sheriffs convention in Salt Lake City.
In the Oneida Idaho Probate Court before Judge C R Thom as administrator N C Olson will sell privately estate land in Oneida county Idaho totaling 169.40 acres comprising sections 19 and 30 township 15 range 41. Sale occurs on or after July 22 1912 with bids to be filed with Olson or the judge before sale.
A garbled excerpt references worry over Whit and the Catholic Standard and Times. Mentions Adam and Eve and a garden exodus with phrases like save and apple. The text alludes to confusion and doubt within a religious context.
Richard Bell in My Strange Pets recounts solan geese once salted and eaten in Scotland as an appetite tickler. A dinner party turns humorous when a guest riffing on prior solan goose quips about not feeling hungry after eating a whole hen, prompting a Scottish neighbor’s retort.
In a Victorian capital case a solicitor Bacon faces a condemned man THingg. On the eve of execution Hogg seeks relief citing a possible relationship to Bacon. The reply denies proof but insists the execution must proceed, leaving Hogg and others not Racantpalatos.
A tale says Michelangelo friend bet who would draw a head and chest with backs to the wall. Michelangelo traced a perfect profile while the other produced only a wavering outline. The instrument used was a nail. Both drawings are preserved at the Palazzo Veo.
In a report from His Folly Jones arrives downtown with a bruised forehead. His friend Briggs asks how it happened and Jones insists the hatrack attacked him on purpose, noting no accident.
The Danube rises in Baden Wurttemberg and traverses Bavaria to Austria Hungary where it forms borders with Romania Bulgaria and Servia. It carries diverse languages and peoples with German Magyar Servian Romanian and Bulgarian tongues heard along its course. An international commission deepened delta channels and riparian states improved rapids. The Danube shapes Austria Hungary economically and politically earning the title of a Danubian monarchy.
In a South Asian region a mesembryanthemum grows on stony ground and resembles a pebble when picked up. A related species near Narru bears two large leaves with a brownish gray green surface like weathered stone. These plants resemble stones but briefly bloom bright yellow flowers. A third species resembles quartz pebbles among which it grows.
A six or seven year old boy whispers to his aunt during a long prayer that he wishes to stand and do dumbbell and Indian club motions. The piece notes adults underestimate a healthy child’s need for constant physical activity and argues the need is real.
The excerpt contrasts personal traits with balance, noting slovenliness and frivolity, stinginess and extravagance as extremes. It cites a Boston Transcript jab about the Bronns and their creditors, reflecting humor about social pretenses and debts.
The Fifth Judicial District Court in Oneida County Idaho orders the sheriff to sell land and hydro rights in Malad and surrounding sections. The sale, July 27, 1912, seeks to satisfy Jenor McKay's judgment against Weston Mills with interest and costs. Sheriff David Davis will conduct the bid at the courthouse front door for cash.
A notice lists participants Samuel, Mary A Nelson, Della Chadwick, Gertrude ree er, and Alberta Griffith attending a mutual improvement conference.
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