Idaho News Roundup Reflects State Growth and Tragedy
Jerome county petitions granted for incorporation as Jérome grows, Kane bank formed with California finance, Idaho Falls banks total resources reach 1.5 million. Death of H. S. Garr in Los Angeles from a fall. Boise council approves August Saturdays noon closures. Emmett trader sells fruit tract at 225 per acre. Congress passes bridge bill enabling Canyon county to build across Snake River. Fire destroys Belize and Interurban freight depot storehouse in Boise. insured. Baril C. Vail, 36, dies after 25-foot fall at Seattle schoolhouse scaffold. Boise Commercial Club and Intermountain Fair plan regional advertising. Fort Lapwal and Kuna Savings banks receive new capital. Battleship Idaho figurehead slated for Boise capitol corner. Livestock board reports 24,979 predators destroyed since 1908. Idaho Falls irrigation belt noted as world’s largest irrigated area with low canal costs. Mandara heliographs tested for forest signaling in Idaho. Ridenbaugh canal breaches near Boise July 20 causing crop damage. Home Finding Aid Society fundraising struggle. half of $20,700 goal secured. George Byron Novinger of Shoshone dies at 33. Reclamation turns over $13,000 in water scrip for Payette-Boise project. Nez Perce Indian affairs undergoing changes under Lipps. Auto crash injures Boise governor and ex-governor. Pure Food issues convict butter cases. misbranded butter flagged. Bear seen in Bottle Bay. ranger involved. Pacific Railroad assets and cut-off discussions unfold.
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Jérome
Kane
Focal Capitalists
California
Idaho
Falls
H. S. Garr
Weiser
Los Angeles
Jeromes Territory
Boise City
Emmett
Congress
Canyon County
Snake River
Belize
Boise
Baril C. Vail
Caldwell
Stevens
Seattle
Boise Commercial Club
Intermountain Fair Association
Middle West
State Bank
Cruse
State Bank of
Fort Lapwal
Kuna Savings Bank
State of Idaho
Capitol Building
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Idaho Falls
United States
Kanikau
Ridenbaugh
South Boise
Inis
George Byron Novinger
Chiens
Penitentiary Ditch
Payette-Boise
Nez Perce
O H. Lipps
Brady
Gooding
Sam Meyer
Jas
Wallis
Bottle Bay
Pacific Railroad
Koosad
Missoula
Dover Heralds Airship Crossing of English Channel
French aviator Louis Bleriot succeeds in crossing the English Channel by airship in under thirty minutes. He travels at about 45 mph on average, peaking near 60 mph, with his wife and friends aboard. The Dover sunrise spectacle saw Bleriot land near Calais after circling Dover cliffs, winning a £5,000 prize from Trinity Mall.
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Dover
Louis Bleriot
English Channel
Bleriot
Les Harreques
Calais
Hieriot
London Trinity Mall
Hubert Latham
Count de Lambert
Bupday
Wabash Train Plunges Into Missouri River
Kansas City reports the Wabash passenger train No 4 plunged into the Missouri River thirty miles east of here Saturday night. Six lives were lost and thirty six injured with three possibly fatally. Flood waters had undermined the weakened roadbed for days before the disaster. A freight train had passed the same spot safely three hours earlier.
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Kansas City
Wabash
Missouri River
Here
Point Saiely
No 4
Woman's terrible revenge shocks Russian nobility case
The St Petersburg News recounts a grave incident at the Mestchersky estate in Smolensk where a discharged housekeeper attacked 14 year old Princess Alexander Mestchersky with an axe. The Mestchersky family, ancient and influential in Russia, figures in many historic strands.
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St Petersburg
Alexander Mestchersky
Smolens
Mestchersky
Russia
Partner of Edith Woodills Slayer Goes Into Bankruptcy
New York report recalls the deaths of Edith Woodill and Robert E Eastman on the Maryland eastern shore last month as John T Garrison files a bankruptcy petition. The firm Eastman & Co. shows liabilities of 92000 with assets of 1132, while Garrison's individual liabilities total 28300 with 13700 assets.
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New York
Edith Woodill
Robert E Eastman
Maryland
John T Garrison
Eastman & Co
Wyoming Cowboy Vanished Traced No More
Miss Anna Friend of Ashton Kentucky traveled to Cheyenne Wyoming seeking her brother Frank Friend who disappeared two years ago while employed as a ranch cowboy. She conducted a fruitless search for any trace of him and his letters to his Ashton family had stopped two years earlier, leaving family fearing foul play.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Anna Friend
Ashton
Frank Friend
Friend
Wyoming
Train Death Follows Ignored Warning Near Waco
A laborer named Ervin was struck and killed by a passing engine near Waco after disregarding a small boy’s warning. The incident occurred while he sat on the end of a tie. The fatal accident underscores a failed heed to caution in the area.
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Waco
Mont
Ervin
The Loves of the Lady Arabella opens with a perilous turn
In a rousing London episode two young midshipmen, Giles Vernon and his companion, chase danger for romance. They thread a theater visit, a duel threat with Capt. Philip Overton, and a late night escape that ends with a carriage wreck near Portsmouth. The tale blends youth, allure, and high seas ambition as they rush to meet consequences.
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Peter Hawkshaw
Sandy Acutella Stormont
Ajax
Giles Vernon
Thomas Vernon
Hawkahaw
Arabella
Giles
Ysir
Overton
Philip Overton
Second Life Guards
Ship of the Line
Portsmouth
St. Paul's
F Giles
London
Oheer
Popular Authors and the Clerical Bestseller Trend
A city prowler visits a neighborhood and notices stacks of a new book by a local minister. Booksellers and locals confirm that pastors who publish are popular where they preach, with major sales focused near church bookstores in New York each spring.
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Mercy
Hint
Presbyterian Church
Port Block
New York
Questioning paths to heaven in Texas sermon excerpt
A Houston Post excerpt quotes a preacher challenging listeners about salvation and entering heaven, arguing that current behavior will not lead to eternal reward. The exchange highlights stark religious rhetoric and moral prompts within a Texas setting.
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Texas
Houston Post
Humorous Melancholy and Oddities From a Distant Page
A compact sketch of newspaper humorists drifting between wit and gloom, with anecdotes on a dry Scotsman avoiding rain by sitting on his clothes, an Irish artist asking for a photo of a landscape, burglar alarms protecting bric a brac on a New York rathskeller shelf, and a playful note on horse flies dampening motor yachts.
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New York
Keeping Friends Lesson on Friendship and Courtesy
A Home Chat meditation on friendship and the habits that preserve bonds. It notes that friendships endure not by occasional courtesy or neglect but through steady small attentions to those most intimate, smoothing daily life and strengthening social ties.
Knew His Lordship in Ally Sloper’s Half-Holiday
A caricature caption describes a caller asking for Perkins and a man with a bill, noting the visitor was abusive and “awful lane.” The piece reflects the comic strip tone of Ally Sloper’s Half-Holiday with satirical dialogue and a mock formal exchange.
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Perkins
Sloper
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Sir Peter
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Giles Fo
White Horse
Polly
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Daphne
jArebeling
Sylvia
Glies
Capt Overton
Lady Hawkshaw
Arabella Little Daprie
Syvia
Hackney
Sas
Garry Ime
Him
Hig Parish
Eaguaranter
Hasty J Robinson
Beilding
Salt Lake City
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Metenaney
Bacher
Lincoln
Christ
Pat
Butes
Adnan Gristlabode
Ossawatomie
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