Tobacco tale and local notices blend for readers
Prose anecdote about the origin of tobacco appears alongside local notices. W F Millsaps plans a Sunday trip to meet the state board of equalization. Survey work on Twin Falls irrigation laterals should finish by Sept. 1. James McMillan travels to the Falls and to Rock Greek, then back. Thomas Logan heads to Twin Falls land for a second settlement. An ad for the Bormann Olson Commission Co of Pocatello promotes cash purchases of farm goods.
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Twin Falls
Thomas Logan
Wind Versus Thermometer Accuracy in Windy Air
The article explains wind does not change thermometer readings when two identical thermometers are placed one in wind and one sheltered. It notes wind makes people feel colder due to faster heat loss from the body via evaporation, while air itself is not colder in motion.
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Nature
Carlyle and Ute Wire Married Couple of Sterary Eminence
The London Outlook described Thomas Carlyle and Ute Wire as a childless couple living in a world of sterile eminence. The piece notes their intellectual pursuits yet highlights the personal void of not having children, portraying their nights as focused on eternal questions rather than private life.
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Thomas Carlyle
Ute Wire
Carlyles
Eternity
Thomas
London
Wagner as an Acrobat Demonstrates at Sixty
Ferdinand Praeger recounts a morning visit to Richard Wagner at his Swiss home. The sixty year old composer suddenly stood on his head on an ottoman in the drawing room. Wagner’s wife burst in, alarmed, and he reassured her that he was still sane and only proving he could balance on his head at sixty.
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Wagner
Ferdinand Praeger
Richard
Ferdinand
Frogs and Snakes Describe Fear Response
The passage notes that common snakes prefer water and feed on frogs and fishes. It details that frogs show increasing fear as a snake nears, leaping feebly and crying out, and even react with terror when a stick mimics a snake’s movement.
Hamlets and Hamlet Demands Echo in Theater Rivalry
A boastful actor boasts of future roles including Hamlet prompting Sir Henry Irving to quip that the bragging rival is the man who cannot play Hamlet. The exchange conveys backstage stage ego and classic theater repartee from Harper's Weekly.
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Sir Henry Irving
Hanter
Amy
Irving
Tenry
Hamlet
Harper's
Timing Exposures and the Photographers Gift
A Philadelphia Record feature notes photographers often gauge exposure with near perfect accuracy. A story recounts a photographer counting thirty seconds while a sitter jokes it took a full minute. The piece also surveys views on healing by nature and wit quotes from Chicago Tribune, Emerson, and New York Press.
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Philadelphia
National Encampment Rates For G A B Meetings
Rates announced for the National Encampment of the G A B in San Francisco August 17 to 22. Round trips to Seattle Portland Spokane and Los Angeles offered with specific rail and steamship options. Tickets on sale August 2 to 15 with final trip limits in October 1903 and stopover rules at various points. D C Orsmsteap local agent.
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Seattle
Portland
Spokane
D. C. Ornetean
San Francisco
Cal
Ogden
Huntington
Los Angeles
California
Southern Pacific
D.C. Orsmsteap
Ordinance imposing licenses on public exhibitions in Shoshone
Ordinance No 14 creates a village tax on public exhibitions and penalties for operating without a license. It lays out license fees 10 per circus or monagerie, 5 per day for other shows, 20 per day for merry go rounds, and penalties up to 100 with fines and possible confinement. The measure excludes home talent and charitable entertainments and takes effect after publication on August 6, 003.
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Shoshone
Chafrain and Boant
JW. Wieetee
Chirman
Maney W. Aspexsos
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Ctiff
Mohammed
W.F. Millsaps
Boles
State Board of Equalizaton
James McMillan
Falls
Rock Greek
Bormann- Olson Commission Company of
Pocatello
Evrything
Jim
Turn
Chicago Tribune
Emerson
New York Press
E. A. Walters
Shoshone, Idaho
Frank T. Disney
The
Phoenix Life Insurance Co
Idsho
E. W. Horton
Tdaho
Tureatiel
Pratia-Mississipmercial Congress
Wash
National
K. I. Perry
Idaho
Senate
W. J. Donaldson & CO
Old Kentucky
North Rail Street
Henry Lee Prep
South Rail
J. d. Butler
William C. Custer
Jos, Keefer
N. New Hotetd
Jous Bormany
Oscar Cis
Bormann-Oson Commission Company
Pocatello, Idaho
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