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Newspaper
The Blackfoot Optimist
Location
Blackfoot, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1916
Page
6
Premium list entries cover class 16 farm horses and 17 carriage teams with specific weights and premiums. It outlines best draft horse and mare awards, restrictions on matches, and requirements for family carriage horses, plus classes 18 to 20 on jacks, mules, and Shetland ponies with age-graded entries and premiums.
Entry details show Helfer, a one year old and an animal under four months, with prices 2.60 and 1.00 for under one year. Pedigreed Holsteins class No. 11 lists a three year old bull with figures 12.00, 8.00, and 4.00.
A reflective piece explores strangers arriving at our gates with imagined promises of happiness. It laments lonely hearts and missed connections, ending with a somber note on the need for friendship. The narrative uses poetic phrases to depict isolation in a busy city.
Truncated ad copy promotes tire mileage claims and life benefits from Sunt side rites. Mentions cheap excursions and Bee Agent O. L. By It Company. Adds vague notes on ice changes and miles driven, with unclear customer guidance.
Candidates of either party may publish announcements in The Optimist from now until the September 5 primary at five dollars per insertion with the announcement fee. The note stresses no guaranteed election, only informing the public of candidacy and urging voters to consider fitness, economy, and competence in a servant of the people.
The Board of County Commissioners defined the precinct boundaries for the 1916 primary on September 5 and the general election on November 7. The long, detailed descriptions name polling places in Aberdeen, Lasal, Mack, Moreland, Goshentsest, Porterville, Riverside, Shelley, Jamestown, Groveland, and Willey. The notice sets times and where voters vote and lists officials and Notaries.
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