An Interesting Letter From the West Continues
The letter recounts a travel diary from a trip westward by tourists driving machines to watch outdoor events. It describes opening night at Camp Curry, Glacier Point fire falls, and a week in Yosemite before touring through Turlock Salem Portland Hood River and the Columbia River highway. It notes Idaho’s Twin Falls plateau irrigated agriculture and yields for wheat sugar beets alfalfa potatoes with ranching and climate observations.
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Eamp Curry
Glacier Point
Turlock
Ed. McCombs
Dalton
Sacramento Valley
Oregon
Salem
Portland
Columbia River
California
Prosperous Idaho Farms and Notable Landmarks Described
A letter recounts rich onion yields of six hundred thirty sacks per acre and eighteen thousand dollars net, notes fruit prospects and soil with alkali needing clover or sugar beets, and remarks on land values from two hundred to fifteen hundred dollars per acre. It highlights Ywin Falls and the Bruno tract dam, Twin Falls, Shoshone Falls, and Vocatello as railroad town in a sheep district, closing with warm regards from Nellie Waterman and J R Birdwell.
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Ywin Falls
Bruno
California
Twin Falls
Shoshone Falls
Snake River
Colorado
Grand Canyon
Vocatello
Nellie Waterman
J. R. Birdwell
Slackers Safe After Today Exemption for Unregistered June Draft
Washington dispatch June 7 states slackers who did not register or failed to report for examination in June 1917 will be exempt from arrest after today unless they left their home jurisdictions and became fugitives from justice to whom the statute of limitations does not apply.
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Washington
Bergdoll Flees to Mexico From Philadelphia Capture
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, a wealthy draft evader, fled custody after escaping two army NCOs at his Philadelphia home on May 21. Reports say he is attempting to reach the Mexican border with a companion and chauffeur, via a San Antonio, Texas dispatch to Justice officials. In separate war news, a Warsaw communique claims Polish forces advanced on the Dying and Beresina fronts and repulsed a Russian offensive along the Dnieper in Ukraine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Department of Justice
San Antonio
Tex
London
Beresina
Polish War Office
Warsaw
Dnieper
Ukrainia
British government challenged by Irish railway workers
London June 7 Premier Lloyd George emphatically informed the National Union of Railwaymen that the refusal of Irish railway workers to handle munitions trains presents a clear challenge to the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lloyd George
National Union of Railwaymen
Dentist Dr W M Kimpeston in Sidney Nebraska
Dr W M Kimpeston a dentist practicing in Sidney Nebraska is named in this brief notice. The fragment notes a dentist with a possibly misspelled location Neu buauer Bridg. Nebr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Kimpeston
Neubauer Bridg
Sidney
Prairie Gem Family Returns Home in Local Neighborhood
Walter Martin and family are back to their home in the neighborhood. A recorder was in Sidney on Monday visiting. Mrs. Fd Root has gone to her old home in Kentucky for an extended visit. W C Sheets of Lorenzo will begin drilling the well at the swimming pool this week. Hi Luken was a Sidney visitor last week. J D Paammond and family were Sidney visitors last Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Martin
A McRiber
Sidney
Fd Root
Kentucky
W.C Sheets
Lorenzo
Hi Luken
VE. J) Paammond
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Rexall
Thayer
Rexall Drug Store
Pendleton
Great Apple
Hood River
Idaho
Snake
Oqurtion
Timken 2 Hyatt
M. W. Osborn MotOr Company
NEBR
Nebraska State Bank
the Home Bank
Automobile Insurance Farmers
W. Bornaday
Bergdoll
Mexico
Prairie Gem
The
Sidney Furniture Company
Sidney Furniture Co
B. F. Avery & Sons
Binder
Hub City Implement Company
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