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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1905
Page
5
Special correspondence from Hayburn notes the Treyburn townsite survey finished and plat sent to Washington. Local clergy and survey crews depart for Rupert, while residents like Mrs. Burnside and Miss Ferrin visit nearby towns. A new Heyburn State Bank opens, weather remains mild, and community updates cover school, land deals, and local arrivals.
Expressing gratitude to friends who assisted during the illness and passing of infant daughter. Signed by Oxa E. Lever and C. A. Luther.
The narrator recalls a tale of an old Southern darky sent to mail four letters at a post office. Lacking a needed stamp, he is told to pay, then bribes wrap eight copper coins to cover the eight cent postage. He frets over the letters and remembers a lesson about payment and honesty.
A bishop of Manchester told a tale at a recent Ingland meeting about appointing a day of prayer and fasting amid drought in Australia. He urged practical effort, saying a community that prayed less and dammed more would fare better.
A reflective musing questions whether wealth acquired by evil means fuels noble causes. The writer ponders the nature of generosity by impious men and whether the present day profits from ill gotten wealth sustain revered institutions.
A Cleveland Leader fragment quotes Farmer Fodstershucks recounting a strange scene in town. He tried paying with a five dollar bill, the clerk yelled cash, and a half hock of odds allegedly slipped into view, prompting alarms and disbelief.
The year saw over a million Scripture copies sold in China by the British and Foreign Bible Society, not counting 35,000 free grants to Chinese students. This surpassed all prior circulation records in the Chinese empire.
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