Minidoka Project Promotes Big Idaho Reclamation Plan
A Washington dispatch outlines a plan to build a rock filled dam across the Snake River at Minidoka. It would irrigate 68 000 acres, generate 10 000 horsepower, lift 3000 cubic feet of water daily, and shift public lands toward homesteads for about 1400 families. The program, part of the Reclamation Act, aims to convert vast arid lands into productive farms with orchards and green fields, boosting Idaho’s prosperity and taxable land value by millions.
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Washington
Snake River
Teyravity
Idaho
Minidoka
French
The Place of Amusement and Life’s Higher Aims
A Pacific Monthly May piece warns against excessive amusement shaping national character. It argues life includes serious duties, not mere pleasure, urging youth to prioritize thought, prayer, and God over frivolous pleasures and a butterfly existence.
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Pacific Monthly
Dr King’s New Discovery Proclaimed Cure All
An advertisement extols Dr King’s New Discovery as a sure cure for throat troubles and lung diseases. Mrs B VarMet te of Shepherdstown Virginia credits it with curing a severe bronchitis after others failed. The ad claims benefits for croup whooping cough grip pneumonia and consumption with trial sizes offered by local druggists.
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W.H. Baugh
Sale of School District Bonds in Hagerman Idaho
Trustees of School District No. 39 Hagerman Lincoln county Idaho announce a sale of a twenty five hundred dollar bond at the County Superintendent's office in Shoshone on Saturday May 28 1904. Bonds mature in ten years with interest not exceeding six percent. The board may reject any or all bids. Tro tess Scupor District No. 39 Magerman Idaho H A Secon Chairman Mrs C C Sayps Clerk.
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Trustees of School Dist. No
Hagerman
Lincoln County
Idaho
Shoshone
Tro Tess Scupor Dist
Decoration Day Exercises Civil War Observance
Local Shoshone citizens prepare Decoration Day activities with a procession forming at South Rail and Walnot stress to the Math district church. Memorial services will honor fallen soldiers and graves will be decorated. civil war veterans remain central to the observance as remaining years thin their ranks.
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Diffendaifer
G. W. Parker
A. I. McMphon
R. Go
A. Walters
Burnside
T. Wy Marry
J. Ly Fuller
Marsha
South Rail
Walnot
Aerthy
Came
Motigeist
Goon Smart
Shoshwhe
Passes Restored for Livestock Shippers After Month Start
Reports from multiple headquarters confirm rumors of return passes for stock shippers being issued after the month begins. Restrictions will be stricter, making passes hard to obtain and resale unlikely. Railroads favor their return as it shifts transit safety duties away from the companies and ends pass abuses noted during the year.
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Railroad Mey
Rowls
Drovers- Journal-Stockman
Average American Wealth Figures for US and Osseo Indians
A historical note states the average wealth of the general US population as 286 per capita and the Osseo Indians at 11 500 per capita, illustrating stark disparities in wealth.
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Averae
United States
Slashed throat ends life of longtime Idaho rancher Vandergraft
Fred Vandergraft a well known rancher near Gooding Idaho died Tuesday from a self inflicted throat slash after a ten day illness with spotted fever despondent over his wife and spring work. An inquest found he took his own life. He was twenty seven a native of Holland and a Knights of Pythias member. Funeral services were held at his home with the lodge taking charge of grave rites. His widow received wide community sympathy.
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Fred Vandergraft
Vandergra
Mr. Vandergraft
Goroner Kleinman
Vaniergraf Toois
Edward Pratt
D Hs Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Vandergraft
Holland
Hopelessness in Spiritual Life Mirrors Disease of Flesh
A solemn reflection compares the absence of eternal hope to the despair of bodily illness, describing the void as infinitely more terrifying and noting the parallel between spiritual desolation and physical decay. The passage emphasizes the need for faith to sustain through mortality.
Electric Bitters credited with cure after hemorrhage
A testimonial from De. T. Mer rit of Mhompany claims Electric Bitters halted violent stomach hemorrhages caused by stomach issues. He reports first gains after treatment and no recurrence for 14 months. The product is advertised as a remedy for dyspepsia indigestion constipation and kidney troubles, sold by W. A. Baugh Shoshone and W. V. Forns Hagerman.
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Tosavea
T. G. Merrit
W. A. Baugh
Shoshone
W. V. Forns
Hagerman
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Magerman
H. A. Secon
C. C. Sayps
Kids Mimsett
Woodwoth & Donaldson
First National Bank
Shoshone,Idaho
F. R. Goonixa
PF. W. Goonies
Cas. M
Hi. Goodlag
Fred W. Good Thug
Chas
Bocaphill
The
Doo
Junction
CIA
Odd Fellows New Hall
Odd Fellows
M. Buriex
N. G. CG
W Wenstcke
E. W. Kleinman
Sweksrowers' New Building
Omon Pisnon
Frank Whittington Barber
Tuore
Frank Whittington
Shoshone, Idaho
ATI Law
Frank T. Disney
Agnes
Phoenix Lite Laegrasce Co
Jarne
K. J. Perry
Noble
Boise
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