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The Blackfoot Optimist

Location

Blackfoot, Idaho, United States of America

Date

Jun 01, 1916

Page

6

THEN AND NOW WAR ORDERS BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO SMALL TOWNS

A Boston dispatch in the New York Evening Post notes war orders, once scarce and vital to a few hundred resident machine shops, now sustain small communities. A tiny plant with ten or twelve workers, building steel shafting machines, keeps operating due to Europe contracts, adding jobs and shifting production to cut strnymel and shells, signaling U.S. industrial resilience in emergency.

Boston Dispatch New York Evening Post Post Dispatch Europe

Two New Moons In May

An old observe notes unusually that May hosted two new moons. The May 1 and May 31 new moons allowed viewers in Blackfoot Japan Africa and Brazil to see the moon twice in one month. The piece explains lunar phases drift with calendar months and clarifies prior incorrect claims.

Blackfoot Japan Africa Brazil

Killers and the ethics of hunting and speech

A poem contrasts natural killers with humans who kill for pleasure critiquing hunting for sport. The text shifts to a report noting Stuart Taber of the Library of Congress was dismissed over remarks about the President. It ends by referencing the Winnetka post office affair and a remark on Democrats banking on wartime prosperity.

Library of Congress Winnetka

Doans Kidney Pills Cited By Blackfoot Resident Ad

Walter B Callister of Blackfoot Idaho reports how Doans Kidney Pills cured his constant dull right kidney pain after a summer of lameness and inability to work. He endorses the medicine from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY, priced 50 cents at all denters and urges others to try the same remedy that relieved his suffering.

Walter 8. Callister Blackfoot Dean Doan Mr. Callister Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo Ady

Public notices and wartime obituary items in brief

A reader extols Chamberlains Tablets for indigestion as General Gallieni, credited with guiding French resistance in 1914, dies suddenly at Versailles. In New York City Arthur Waite is found guilty of first degree murder in the death of his father in law, John H Peek, with sentencing set for today.

Gallieni Versailles France Arthur Waite New York City John H. Peek Grand Rapids, Mich

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Fen Ene Corn Products Refining CO P.O New York Dept. PH Stuart Taber Recco Becco Becker Growingstatting Wilson Congress Portland Idaho Oregon Union Pacific System O.S. S Chamberlain G. E Tiler Tilion N.Y Powers Pharmacy Santox Blackfoot Farmers Milling Co., Ltd Graham D. W. Standrod & Co The Blackfoot Optimist Pearson & CO F. C. Christ Neil F. Boyle & Co Brown-Hart Co Hendrie Implement CO E. &G. Bills Auto Co Ford and Overland Isis Theatre
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