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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1909
Page
8
A brisk Shoshone column reports on holidays, weddings, taxes, and community events. It notes Rev. Pratt’s school revival, a big Watch Night party, church services, and local marriages. It also covers tax notices, land sales, farm developments, and upcoming civic meetings shaping the town’s new year.
An evening of entertainment at the Opera House on January 9 features Dr George Gilbert Bancroft and Miss Lillian Lewis a celebrated vocalist and impersonator. The program includes Bancroft s humorous sketch When Whom and How to Love a musical lecture novelty with high order entertainment and impersonations by Lewis.
Dr Mancroft and Miss Lewis have entertained crowds for eighteen years in major U S cities and Australia. Today they present a highly anticipated act, backed by Idaho’s prominent citizens, with sellout seats predicted. Bealls on sale at the usual place. don’t miss it.
Jer o s ie Idaho notes that Jerosie will be at home with new Weeter Lumber Co yards on South Lincoln and an office 20x30 feet is being plastered. Main building 20x98 with sheds, plans for 40x120 feet additional sheds and large stock. Also sale of quarter section near irrigation land near Tees with 40+ acres burned and ready for plow. Property offered by widow owner. price $5 per acre bonus. Milner area sheep owners report 300 head branded P with four black and two bell sheep. contact to claim.
An aged farmer from Eramosa visits Toronto and is mistaken for royalty when a hotel crier asks if he is King Edward. He calmly replies that he is Thomas Cox, a plain farmer from his home county, highlighting how royal hotel names can cause confusion.
The Lincoln County National Bank of Shoshone in Shoshone Idaho is certified by Comptroller Lawrence O Murray to commence banking under federal law after evidence of compliance. The certificate bears the date November 11 1905 and official seal.
Sawtooth National Forest invites woolgrowers to a January 6 meeting in Shoshone to discuss forming a five member advisory board for sheep grazing. The board would help allocate range, resolve disputes, and set carrying capacity, with attendees including Homer E. Fenn and possibly District Forester Leavitt.
A neighborhood incident reports a cat belonging to Mrs. Jones harming local pets. Dwight, seven, prints and posts a notice on the map seeking a trap for the cat to prevent suffering. The note reads This is for Jones ext only.
The Gaulois prints a fictitious exchange between the prison governor and the head warden about stopping prisoner communications. The idea proposed is to install telephones in cells to allow control, prompting debate on the wirellabst and telephony in the prison system.
An English writer Mrs Creighton urges women to respond to discourtesy with polite thanks rather than scowling. The piece argues gratitude prompts better behavior and suggests sisters and mothers avoid fussing to prevent men from feeling flattered. It claims men read women as influenced by politeness and warns against being swayed by flattery.
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