Gooding Idaho Accounts Open With Postmaster Move and Local Biz
Gooding news reports Postmaster Egelus moving into the new rear post office rooms. Shoshone druggist T M Starth plans a Main Street drug store. Mrs Geo Thompson expands spring millinery stock and may take stock to Hagerman. Charles Beckett, manager of the Gooding Mercantile, died after fever illness. Interstate laborers fleeing North Side ditches were deterred from Boise valley work. A near fire at Governor Gooding’s ranch was contained by ditch water. Building rush continues with additions to hotels and offices, new dwellings, and sidewalk work across Gooding.
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Egelus
T. M. Starth
Gooding
Main Street
Geo. Thompson
Charles Beckett
Gooding Mercantile Company
Beckett
Siek
Shoshone Hospital
Boise Valley
Grant
W. B. Kelly
Joe Vogt
Furcht & Furcht
Walter Gooding
Wyoming Street
Ferdinand Moeler
Dixon Brothers
Soldier Stage
Bessie Durfee
Idaho
Comroxes debate hiring another physician after low bill
Mrs Comrox suggests hiring another doctor while her husband argues the bill was reasonable. He counters that the small charge reflects undervaluing health and social and financial importance.
Mother removes starch from baby’s dress to ease crying
A mother finds the baby cries from a prickly lace around the neck. She stops using starch and replaces lace with briar stitching to soothe the child. The home dress now has no starch and no irritant at the neckline.
Rare Miners' bank ten dollar coin to anchor Old Coins sale
The NYT notes Elder's sale features a rare 1850 Cal ifornia Miners' bank ten dollar gold piece. Collectors seek this pioneering gold coin once scarce in the west, with only a few believed extant as San Francisco gold fever era pieces.
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California
Elder's
Sys
New York Times
San Francisco
United States
Weoden Buildings and Rats in New York City
A speculative discussion explains why rats are scarcer in New York. The speaker credits the abundance of stone walls cellars and concrete floors and the rarity of wooden buildings. A separate tale describes a man eroding stone with a tiny stream of water over five years, versus a chisel’s fifteen minutes.
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New York
Minister's Slight Reward in Bridgeton Marriage Fee
A Bridgeton New Jersey minister found 13 cents in an envelope as a marriage fee when he returned home. The small sum was the total fee offered for officiating, reflecting a modest gesture rather than a formal payment.
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Bridgeton
N. J
Average life expectancy figures from early authorities
Good authorities estimate life spans at about 33 years on average. A quarter of the population dies before age six, half before age 16, and only about one in a hundred born survives to age 65.
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Nampa Lumber CO
Miracle Cement
E. W. Gardner
Gooding, Idaho
Buddy
England
Alaska
Sheldon Jackson
United States Bureau of Education
Congress
Alberia
Hering Strait
Jackson
Alaskan
Noah Webster
Neah Webster
Jold Webster
Yale College
Lisle & Barber
J.W. Monroe's
Econd A
Montana
Evans Wood
L. Moyer & CO
Tes
Cour
Wornz
Palace Livery Stable
Ind Ave
Washington St
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