Ada County Valuation Tops Thirteen Million In 1909
Ada county's total assessed value for 1909 is expected to exceed 13 million dollars. Idaho news notes Evergreen stage line to Payette Lakes, burglaries, fires, mine accidents, irrigation projects, livestock shipments, and college building plans with multiple local incidents and regional updates across Ada, Canyon, and neighboring counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada
Axtrough
Evergreen
Payette Lakes
Idaho
Hugh Mehaffey
Pres Farmer
Judson & Kane
Eagle
F D. Angell
Nampa
Oregon Short Line
Caldwell
College of Idaho
Nesbitt and Paradice
Plains
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
State Board of Equalization
Lovers and midshipmen in the Ajax tale
A young midshipman, orphan Giles Vernon, forms a reckless bond with Admiral Hawkshaw through a shopping prank and gleeful bravado. His backstory ties to Sir Thomas Vernon and family feuds as the Ajax prepares for the Mediterranean voyage. The narrator reflects on noble airs, shipboard life, and looming leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Hawkshaw
Arabella Btarmont
Cities Vernon
Thomas Vernon
Cockpit Tales of a Naval Midshipman and a Pirate’s Hat
The narrator recalls rough initiation in the royal navy aboard a ship where Giles Vernon torments and befriends him. A battered cocked hat, once belonging to Sir Peter Hawkshaw, is shown as a symbol of junior officer discipline and aboard ship hierarchy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
His Majesty's Navy
St Pauls
Giles Vernon
Tapscallion
Peter Hawkshaw
The
White
Extravagant hats and changing prices in a Missouri Kansas City tale
A Missouri man visiting his son in Kansas City reflects on rising costs and fashion. The father contrasts today’s higher hat and clothing prices with his own thriftier past, noting how personal wardrobe costs have climbed from nickel hats to a sixty dollar ensemble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Kansas City
Russell Sage
Ben
Janet weighs marriage plans amid household upheaval
A long married couple faces news of Janet’s upcoming engagement to David. The mistress asks if they are engaged and Janet replies the wedding will occur next Sabbath. Janet recalls a cake recipe promise and a small book as she plans to propose within the month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janet
David
Lass
Cuticura Cures Woman of Eczema After Long Suffering
Miss Barbara Kral of Highlandtown Maryland describes ten months of intense itching and red patches on face and body. After trying doctors and various remedies, she found relief with four to five applications of Cuticura Ointment and continued use of Cuticura Remedies, claiming full cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Kral
Highlandtown
Jane
Potter Drag & Chem. Carp
Bolo Prope
Boston
Not the butcher's fault and a cake of sympathy in two tales
A dialogue about a tough lamb and a sharp delivery sparks a brief wit story in a Brat Instance style. Two Western city matrons discuss exes and second marriages at a women's club with quips about honesty and regret.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Lippincott's Magazine
Drunk Mosquitoes and Cat Pompadour in Odd Tales
A fragmentary vintage column mixes a missionary anecdote about African mosquitoes making a person drunk with an unrelated note about Pompadour, a clever Skowhegan cat that herds mice for Mrs James Howe. The piece also touches on natural history and distant glacial past ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pompadour
Thomas
James Howe
Skowhegan
Mr Howe
Cold Storage Eggs and Odd Mining Notions
A杂 collection of quirky newspaper snippets discusses cold storage eggs becoming capital stock in a storage firm and future explorers finding hatchable irony. It notes a toy amalgam of gems like a ham sandwich mine near Macon and an aging actress publishing past love letters as part of a newspaper mood piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of England
Chicago News
Also Mentioned on This Page
Preston News
Rews Picling Co
Preston
Idaho State News
jJames Merritt
Middleton
Bird Fom
Jack Young
Emmett
Timothy
W. R Marvin
Bill" Matthews
Indaho
Overland
Union Pacific
Omaha
Marie Lowery
John Lowery
Lewiston
Julia Moore Lowery
Fort Lapwal
State Department For the Propagation of Fish and Game
Corvallis
Wash
Boise
John H. Cradelbaugh
Frederick W Walton
Denver
Wallace
Cradelbaugh
Gaunt
State Land Board
Grand Lodge of the Improved Order of Redmen of Idaho
Idan Building
Exposition Commission
Brady
Montpelier
Hugh Mccintosh
Bear River
Crown Ag
Ewiniiing
Ae Feliu
Creek
Arabella
By Molly Elliot Seawell
Hetty Green
Rodney
Americus Vespucius
Ovatr
Noah
Oakium Bay
Portsmouth
Lot
Ford
Polly Hawkshaw
Lady
Peter
Mufti
Sir Peter
Giles
Ajax
Admiralty
Admiral Hawkshaw
Glufford
Vernon
His
Hawkshaw
Buxton
Vernon Court
York
Grosvenor Square
London
Sir Thomas
Philip Overton
Guilds
Ges Giles
Overton
Mediterranean
Drury Late
Playhouse
Betty Green
Mistress Trenchard
Sylvia
Roxana
Lady Percy
Violetta
Stintwaite
Post
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
Harry J. Robinson
Judge Building
Balt Law City
Nyassa
Milla
the Gods
Jacob & Fils
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!