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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1917
Page
8
A desperate blackmailer schemes to extort Trevor wife with a note for $1,000. Trevor thwarts the plan, discovers the plot, frees his wife, and after police arrive the would-be thief is taken to state prison. The couple’s domestic peace returns.
In a quirky column a narrator muses on a gardener’s quest amid jungle misadventures. The piece riffs on intentions, timing, and the odd contrast between gardening tasks and wild surroundings, ending with a flourish about a weed crop’s unlikely success.
A garbled page mixes patriotic verse with family pleas and district court notices from Lincoln County Idaho. It includes lines aspiring to national strength, a mother’s plea “Come Home, Father,” liberal ideals, and legal actions to quiet title on lands in Section 22, Township 3 South, Range 18 E, with formal summonses and court dates from September 1917.
In a colorful note, staff quips that the term devil is a nickname for the editor, highlighting misunderstandings of newspaper office slang and the playful tension between readers and newsroom lingo.
The Village of Shoshone Lincoln County Idaho seeks to issue nine thousand dollars in municipal bonds dated January 1 1918 at six percent interest with semiannual coupons. Bonds to be issued mainly in 1000 denominations with some 500 or 100 notes allowed. Redeemable at the village or a New York bank after 1928 with final maturity January 1938. Bids to be sealed by October 2 1937 with five percent certified check, highest bid not below par, village chair and trustees reserve right to reject bids.
John W. Segraves of Dietrich Idaho intends final proof to establish his claim to the SE NE quarter of section 15 township 6 range 19 EBM under the Carey Act. He will prove residence reclamation and cultivation before Thomas Fay at Shoshone Idaho on October 22, 1917 with witnesses Louin Nelson E B Crothers August Lange Ancil Carnegie of Dietrich Idaho. The American Defense Society advocates a food embargo as a defense measure.
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