Idaho Irrigation and State Pride Highlight Washington Visit
A Washington dispatch reports Governor Morrison and Idaho Attorney General Bagley detailing irrigation disputes under a federal act. Morrison cites 160 acre patent limits, touts Idaho’s future as a prosperous state, and praises Roosevelt’s policy and irrigation aid.
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John T. Morrison
Tikaho
John A. Bagley
Normandie
Morrison
Washington
United States
Idaho
Tdaho
Tam
West
Boise
Capitol
Roosevelt
No Royal Road and the hard school of journalism
McKelway argues journalism should be a state profession with well educated practitioners. He cites the hard school of journalism as the real degree, praising the university of experience as the true qualification. A garbled note follows about a Cleveland woman and a tied case of a cat and lamp fog.
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Royal Road
St. Clair McKelway
University of Experience
Learned Humpback of Paris Inspires Marble Grave Inscriptions
An eccentric Parisian humpback hunter, famed as the Learn ed Hancback, died leaving 2,000 manuscript pages focused on humps rather than wealth. His will called for a marble hump over his grave with a playful inscription about his life treating humps as his lifelong pursuit.
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France
Europe
Hancback
Sierra Morena
Spain
The Very Smallest Escapes the Rural Editor
The sanctum visitor muses that nothing is too small to escape notice. The rural editor retorts that not even the man who tries to get his paper for nothing escapes scrutiny.
Millionaire's Poor Stomach and Green's August Flower Ad
An advertisement discusses stomach ailments among millionaires and writers, promoting Green's August Flower as a long standing remedy. It claims the product stimulates the liver, improves appetite and digestion, and includes trial bottles priced at 25 cents and regular bottles at 75 cents. Thor, M. Stwirh.
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Green
Thor
M. Stwirh
Cigars From the Colonies Gain Popularity in America
The Porto Rican cigar, once priced to rival Havana and dismissed by smokers, now wins favor as a lower priced domestic alternative. The real plantation made cigar is rough in shape and differs from Connecticut molds. Tobacconists warn shoppers to light it properly and avoid chewing the end.
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America
Havana
Connecticut
Uncanceled stamp joke sparks finance field marshal remark
A joke recalls a man soaking an uncanceled two cent stamp from a misdirected envelope. He spends minutes at the task, jokingly billed as a field marshal of finance with time worth ten dollars a minute, near an economy piece.
It Hit Him Kwater Well
The exchange mocks vanity and sharp remarks about beauty, noting that critics are often sensitive about appearance while others stand firm in their humor.
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Kwater
Newitt
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