Southern Idaho The Place for Newcomers and Opportunity
A promotional piece extols Southern Idaho as irrigation fueled land of plenty. It imagines persuading busy urban dwellers to relocate to 300000 acres under Water resources by the Idaho Irrigation Co, praising soil, nature, and freedom while weaving in humorous asides about fashion, explorers, and migration trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
American Desert
Phoenix
Rocky Mountains
Sierras
Blue Mountains
Java
Snake River
Lewis and Glark
Wood River
1Aho Irrigation Company
Ho Stewart
Kitwee
Molmure Mar
Critica
Salt Lake County
Should Have High Ideals And The Endless Road To Greater Deeds
The text argues ideals should remain beyond reach to sustain motivation. Achieving the ultimate aim ends inspiration, so one must always pursue a farther stretch of the highway. Ideals inspire continued striving, larger accomplishments, and a never-ending ascent.
Printers Ink and the Birth of Newspapers
Printers ink helps promoters rally crowds to build towns and recruit settlers for large land ventures. After much debate, boosters unite behind the idea of publicity to sell the story, giving rise to many newspapers that endure or fade over time.
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Whey
Hugh
Medh
Idaho Dairy Prospects Boosted by Wisconsin Trip
Professor Ellington of the University of Idaho reports a Wisconsin trip to view dairy cows for Idaho dairymen. He says the first shipment is the greatest ever sent from Wisconsin and signals bigger things to come, with Idaho farmers planning more high grade stock and university support. The enterprise generated statewide and national press attention as the special train carried Idaho’s dairying revival story.
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Wisconsin
Idaho
Ellington
University of Idaho
Farmers of Idaho
Fort Atkinson
Plains
Seeet
Middle West
Utat
WrSea
Carien
Eure
Wwe
Fons & Buker
Cere- Jace
Vous & Barty
Jase
Goring
Channeissanée
Guerssey
Jeter
Jersey
Salt Lake County
Edo
Colonial Meeting Houses in Winter
In winter the colonial meeting house was a cold place with shivering congregants. Samuel Sewall notes a great coughing fit in the audience, the sacrament bread frozen hard and rattling in pewter plates, while Blilss’s Side Glimpses provides a vivid vignette of the harsh conditions.
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Samuel Sewall
Blilss
Life Too Cluttered and the Lost Art of Doing Nothing
A reflective critique of modern life argues that people fill every hour with tasks chatter work and entertainment leaving no time to pause. The piece laments the decline of meaningful stillness and urges embracing deliberate quiet to think and reflect.
New Point of View Inspires Positive Outlook
A motivational note urging readers to seek light and reject shadows. It promotes focusing on pleasure, helpful, and inspiring things to transform character quickly, attributed to Orison Sweet Marden.
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Orison Sweet Marden
Record Trout Weighing Over Sixteen Pounds Captured
A trout weighing more than 16 pounds was netted at Blagdon Lake Somersetshire during routine operations and is believed to be the largest trout in English waters.
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Blagdon Lake
Somersetshire
English
The Fly Warning Through Summer’s End
An odd, fragmentary poem warns of a summer fly and its dangers. It laments lost childhood treats and friendships while urging delivery of a cautionary message to Mr. Ah, not to celebrate the insect. The tone evokes nostalgia and a science note on dangers.
Endowed theater dream and the lure of showbills
The essay laments showbills as polished fantasies that glamour actors, heroes, and heroines, diverging from stage reality. It contrasts glitzy showbill images with gritty, imperfect onstage life, urging a return to true art and drama despite expense.
Etiquette Note on Potato Skins Disposal
Egbert advises proper table etiquette for potato skins. Do not toss skins on the cloth or roll them at others. Peel quietly, catch the skin in your hand, and discreetly drop it into a neighbor’s pocket to spark a joking distraction.
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Egbert
One Legged Man Approaches in Timelock Foama Riddle
Ahal lark Timelock Foama warns of approaching footsteps as Dear Watson jokes. Foama hints the approaching figure is a one legged man, while continuing his bale deducing.
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Timelock Foama
Watson
Timelock Foams
Forage Crops for Western Farmers
A long lecture outlines best forage crops for irrigated Western farms. Emphasizes perennial pastures, legume mixes, soil preparation, seed timing, and light gradients for continuous green pasture. Demonstrates sowing peas with oats and alfalfa dominance, with examples from Utah and Jersey Channel counties.
How to Succeed in Life and Pursue Perseverance
A compact guide urging perseverance as the key to success, urging experience as a counselor and hope as a guiding genius. Though phrased as advice, it emphasizes steady effort, caution from elder wisdom, and continuous self-improvement to reach desired outcomes.
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Cautor
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Sagebrus
Hell
Sieathe
Explorer Scott
South Pole
Madero
Ot Kite Coal
Wall Street
Ahal
L. A. Merril
Utah Agricultural College
Iator Short Line Raila
Grammes
Kentucky
Reading
Ture
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