Local Idaho notes include prizes and a powder plant rumor
Rev H A Lee of Weiser Idaho held services in Thorton and Hollys building. Newton Bros gun prize went to Frank Schodde for four hundred pairs of rabbits. C S L painters finish windmill and section house in railroad red. A jewellry store opens next to post office. Map of southeastern Idaho finished for Barley Town Site Co. Residents travel to Boise Portland and Oregon. Hay stack fire near Hagerman 190 tons destroyed. powder factory rumored with DuPont ties. $100000 subscribed.
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Newton Bros
Frank Schodde
Dinner and a Little Change at a Lawrence Hotel
A well dressed stranger, broke and hungry, dined at a Lawrence hotel. After the meal a counterfeit $20 bill fell from his handkerchief. The waiter gave it to the landlord who refunded $19.25, keeping 73 cents as the regular price. The man fled, leaving the hotel stunned by the counterfeit discovery.
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Lawrence
Kansas City Journal
Relinquished Indian Officer Praises Scots Humor
A Scottish anecdote recalls an Indian officer praising countrymen at a mess. He shows a Highland piper on duty behind his chair and, to highlight the man, asks his origin. The piper salutes and replies with a clever quip: “Tipperary, yer honor.”
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Scotland
Tipperary
Colored Pearls From Distant Waters Across Regions
The article notes green or iridescent pearls in California coast shells, black and gray pearls in Lower California waters, and white pink brown and other colors in freshwater streams of Ohio Tennessee Texas Kentucky and Wisconsin. Purple and black pearls appear in common clam shells near Long Island Sound and the Atlantic coast. Major pearl fisheries are in Ceylon the Persian Gulf western Australia Torres Strait and the Sulu Archipelago.
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California
Ohio
Tennessee
Texas
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Long Island Sound
Ceylon
Persian Gulf
Western Australia
Torres Etraite
Sulu Archipelaga
Cocoanut Rafts on Waterways Transported by Native Tow
Cocoanuts, lighter than water, are moved by waterways unlike timber. Thousands of rafts are compacted and bound by long bark strands. A single native can tow several rafts, the fiber strong enough to endure rough water.
Idaho Falls To Have A Daily Post Newspaper
Idaho Falls will soon get a daily morning paper named the Post with Sumner and Gebbe as publishers. An office with a linotype machine arrived from Sedalia Colorado where they previously ran a daily. The first issue is planned for the coming month and the paper will be Democratic in politics.
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Idaho Falls
Sumner
Gebbe
Sedalia
Colo
The
Post
I Beat the Devil Grave Marker Poem by Lloyd D. Kaze
A verse by Lloyd D. Kaze speaks from a grave site seeking a simple inscription. The speaker rejects pomp and asks only for a wreath of flowers and the line He beat the Devil carved beneath his name as final tribute.
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Staneus
Builders of Half Finished Chicago Homes Told by George Ade
George Ade laments substandard Chicago building practices blaming builders of a familiar type. He recalls two builders who discussed luck over beer as one notes his houses blowing down in last week’s wind while the others remained standing, highlighting shared shoddy workmanship.
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George Ade
Chicago
Mr. Ade
Ullders
America
Lance
Jones
A Sailor Maid and Her Gentle Weather Eye
A lyrical portrait of a sailor maid praised for trim figure and seafaring grace. The verse extols her confident bearing, sea skills, and alluring calm, likening her to a mistress of ropes and tides with a teasing, affectionate tone.
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Wiedewat
English Tavern Signs Reflect Quirky Hostelry Motifs
A tavern sign shown across England reads The Dogs Head to a Pot with a dog image and a three legged pot, suggesting a welcoming host and generous service. Another common sign, Five Miles from Anywhere No Hurry, in Hampshire evokes rural charm and isolation, offering a humorous warning to travelers.
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England
Sven
Hampshire
San Azreabie
Swollen Head Warns Against Vanity and Pride
A moral on the dangers of swelling with inherited wealth and fame. The piece notes a young man who, within three years, rises and falls, despised by former admirers as humiliation follows. It argues many punishments come from missing honest conduct, simplicity, and modesty with examples from everyday life.
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Saturday Evening Post
Region of the doldrums and its calm Atlantic belt
The doldrums stretch across the Atlantic and Pacific near the equator where trade winds meet. Squals and heavy rains occur, yet this region is defined by oppressive calm and ships often sail aimlessly with sails hanging lifeless.
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Atlantic
Pacific
The Doorway of Love in a Lippincott’s Tale
In a heated scene the speaker confronts a desolate portal that stands as a somber threshold. Bolts labeled Sorrow and Volt pause a cautious passage while two dim figures loom in the gloom. The narrator, bleeding and blinded, seeks passage through the dreadful doorway toward a transformed, hopeful realm called Love.
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Love —Hita Heath
Lippincott’s
The Wine Cellar's Passing
The London Telegraph notes wine cellars have fallen from fashion as private cellars fade. While taste remains for wines, fashion shifts push private cellars out of use, with sherry Madeira and sach growing rarer. Auctions still fetch keen competition for prime lots, but the private cellar era ends.
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London Telegraph
A Waiter’s Walk
A Westminster Gazette note describes a waiter’s long shift in a restaurant with a pedometer. He logged about 100,000 steps, roughly thirty seven miles, from 3:00 to 2:30 p.m., averaging over seven thousand miles a year if he worked four days weekly, suggesting Swedish waiters take their job seriously unless the device was faulty.
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Westminster Gazette
All Wed Without Permission
Wealthy Australian squatter partitions his property among six daughters to guard against fortune hunters. He declares that any daughter who marries without trustees consent forfeits her share to sisters. In Sydney the six sisters all married without permission and thus forfeited their shares to the others, a state of affairs the women likely find satisfactory.
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Ether
Sydney
Fragmentary legal notice on estate matters and counsel
A partial OCR fragment mentions an administrator and attorney in a debt or estate proceeding. The text references Sept and a case in which an adult party is involved, with unclear party names and formal roles.
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