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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1905
Page
4
A fragment from a Oregon Gopeculation item hints at a library and butcher shop in Idaho with a curious ad style and odd notices. The piece mentions Wansutaston Library and Its Contents and includes a quip about pantry meat and dining, plus a remark on petroleum origin theories and a Nevada County train deer accident.
A fragment from the Kent Maryland News discusses dandelions burdock and couch grass as an absurdity in Rome and asserts that department of agriculture reports tens of roots imported yearly for the drug trade. Abe Cohen, a Randy Potiom merchant, sent three towels from his department store after visiting the News room. Come again Mr Cohen and we will show you our coal bin.
A fragmentary reminiscence notes Carlyle speaking for over an hour with a fierce, uninterrupted stream of remarks. The writer admires his keen character and felicitous, arrow-like criticisms, praising the force and cadence of his utterance as memorable.
Working girls in Berlin average nine and a half hours per day for about two dollars and forty cents a week. Only one in five can have her own bedroom, the others share rooms with one to six other girls. Some barely know what a warm meal is, rye bread being their principal food.
An enterprising researcher reports the discovery of the longest word ortho-othoxy-am mond-benzoylamide-quinolin, claimed as the correct scientific name for a well known proprietary medicine.
County treasurer announces a call for warrants to be paid. The notice lists Nos. 363 364 305 and 366 with payment by the county treasurer CW Veniere and Harry W. Anderson supervising.
In 161 words, Fount Frost advertises feed priced at 25 cents per head or 50 cents per epan at Keefer livery barn.
Local items from Wood River include missing keys found and owners asked to prove property, families traveling for outings, a drowning at the Big Wood river, new homes and construction, arrests for vagrancy and fighting with fines, rental notices for rooms and boarding teachers, Studebaker sprinklers arriving for Twin Falls, fishing trips, medical travel for eye treatment, a new brick schoolhouse foundation, fall stock sale by Stock Growers Mercantile, church services and revival topics, and a county wide quarantine order for mange requiring dipping of horses with penalties for noncompliance.
Delia Yaden daughter of Mr and Mrs D W Yaden has been ill at Hailey for two weeks. The Yaden family camped near Hailey along Wood River weeks ago when Delia fell ill. Initial thought was appendicitis but doctors now suspect stomach trouble. W D Vredenburgh reports the girl is slowly recovering.
Advertises a non running butter safe ink for butter makers and asks them to write to Will D Candee in Weiser Idaho. The brief item notes 28w3d.
The annual life diploma and county certificate exams will occur in Shoshone on August 24 25 and 26. Eighth grade questions will be included for interested pupils. General History remains required for first grade county certificates Geology substitutes for state certificates. School law questions come from the 1903 edition Lean M Burnster County Superintendent.
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