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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1909
Page
2
Westbound and eastbound railroad times listed with multiple stops. MoTiwaves at 11:35 p.m. Noll at 7:25 p.m. NoGleaves 9:10 a.m. Eastbound shows NoBleaves 6 a.m. and Boi2leaves 7 a.m. NoGleaves 6 p.m. Branch train departs north at 9 a.m. and arrives from north at 7:20 p.m.
Local residents and visitors flock to Shoshone for the Dietrich tract sale and townsite openings with dozens of real estate agents, investors, and lawyers from Idaho and neighboring states. Notables include Hager man and Hagerman figures, along with press representatives and a Studebaker street sprinkler aiding crowds. A range of sales, audits, and prospective bargains followed as locals reported on the week’s events.
In Waterville Maine a tramp named George Tobin, denying violence, recounts surviving a tense encounter when a resident’s baby was saved from a broken screen. He fled toward Lewiston after a heated scene with a man who barred him from a house. The tale includes Tobin warning of danger and a brief pole of chiding from bystanders.
The state will offer 6000 acres of choice land for sale at Borley on June 18. Round trip tickets from Shoshone cost 2.85. Tickets go on sale June 1, 4 and 15.
A special train left Lewiston on Wednesday to carry Lewiston Normal School students from the southern Idaho towns Boise Pocatello Nampa Meridian Payette Weiser Hailey Mountain Home Caldwell Bellevue Twin Falls homeward. The Oregon Navigation line Riparia Lewiston cuts travel time by over twelve hours and a chaperone accompanies the students aboard. A September return trip from Pocatello will bring back both old and new students with supervision.
A column discusses filial piety as a Chinese Japanese virtue tied to the emperor, recounting parables of virtuous acts. It also includes a humorous anecdote about a French schoolmaster and a later street encounter where Mrs. McGoozie compliments Lysander on his vocabulary after a flow of remarks.
A humorous slice on human anatomy from hips to feet and skin to muscle notes the hands on a body and its utilities. It cites the heart liver and lungs as aiding surgeons and mocks their real purpose. A Philippines Gossip item then shares a railway tale and a New York proposal to fine carriers for jolts, promoting economy and public peace by reducing unnecessary jolts.
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