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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
4
Gooding reports rapid growth as new homes and fireproof buildings rise, the brick kiln and water works progress, and investment pours in from visitors like W N Pierce and Ida M Holister. Builders plan a two story hotel and a series of cottages, while real estate sales prompt ongoing development in the southeast town.
Notice to creditors. All parties indebted to the Goading Mercantile Co. please settle the same at the Stockgrowers Mercantile Co. Shoshone Idaho.
Resolution by the chairman and board of trustees authorizes improvements on Wyoming Street Montana Avenue Washington Street Luho Wrent California Street and Nevada Street from the Oregon Short Line railroad right of way to Seventh Avenue. Estimated cost is 1000 dollars with expenses assessed against benefiting lots. Protest deadline May 25 1908.
The offices of Wayland and Fennell invite bids for general construction and for heating and plumbing of a three story and basement brick and stone hotel in Gooding Idaho. Bids due at 2 p.m. Saturday June 6 18. Each bid must be accompanied by a 2 percent certified check payable to Adam Schubert secretary. The owner may accept or reject any bid.
A jumble of quoted revivalist phrases and musings on reading. The text threads through reflections by James Russell Cowell on Reading and Russell Lawrence on philanthropy, followed by editor notes on Cannibals and Canadian frontier stories.
A historic fragment notes Alec Harms, once a prize fighter and boxing champion, linked to Rt Hon Jobo Hirns. The text hints at shared boxing studies and a ciphered line about happiness and fate. Mentions fear about reins, with unclear references to Jeremy Yaster Coward.
The April session of Lincoln County Idaho Board of Commissioners approves creating School Districts No 16 and No 24, extending to No 4 and No 35 with detailed township boundaries. It also grants refund of county bonds, sets terms for 1908 bond issue, and adjourns to June 20 1908 for bid opening. The minutes name H Imes, P E B Grosse, and clerk Harry Anderson.
Notice from the Lincoln County Board of County Commissioners Idaho to issue and negotiate bonds aggregating twenty eight thousand dollars. Redemption plan provides ten percent at ten years and ten percent annually thereafter. Bids in sealed envelopes must be filed on or before June 26, 1908. A H Ines, chairman. Frank B. Grosse, commissioner. Harry W. Axpenson, commissioner.
Su perintendent of Public Buildings Francis Keefe at Augusta offers a vast key assortment as the largest in Maine. The display includes thousands of keys in glass cases, from small mailbox keys to four inch elevator keys, covering many sizes and descriptions.
The article notes cotton is grown across India with fiber length and coarseness varying by locality. It cites low yields due to primitive farming and tolls the boll worm threats. It mentions a Hindu rite for crop loss and dramatic fates for repeated failures, plus a cartoonish aside about aging and a minstrel named Minxile.
A 154 year old pendulum clock owned by J. Elfresh of Darby Pennsylvania continues to run since its installation and has struck over 8 500 000 times. A Spanish proverb about wisdom and a motto on honoring a wife appear among its inscriptions.
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