Real estate and water rights offerings across Idaho towns
Capital stock offers total $500,000 with lots for sale in Halley Shoshone Mountain Home Caldwell and Payette priced from $25 to $400 each. Lands available to 1 000 acre tracts for sale or lease, water rights and canals prominent. Water for sale or lease in any quantity with liberal terms and access to power irrigation or domestic use near town sites.
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Halley
Shoshone
Mountain Home
Caldwell
Payette
Idaho
Special inducements offered to Idaho and Northwest interests
Promoting regional development, the notice states readiness to provide assistance or inducements to attract capital and labor. It invites contact at Idaho offices in Hailey or Caldwell for valuable information.
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Idaho
Northwest
Pools a Failure Reflects Inconsistent Rail Alliances
The article argues that railroad pools fail to stabilize rates as commitments crumble. It cites Grand Trunk withdrawing from an east bound pool, calls for public enforcement, and notes continued disintegration of league agreements. It contrasts these with criticisms from merchants and officials. It discusses enforcement limits and a need for public representation in pools. It also reviews historical time reckoning systems across cultures.
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Grand Trunk
Chicago
New York
Fink
Nimmo
Bureau of Statistics
Trunk Line Executive Committee
Merchants of
Republic
Chicago Tribune
The Ascent of Sirius and Frederick the Great Life Details
The passage discusses the Sirius rising cycle known as the Sothis period of 1,461 Egyptian years and notes Egypt’s move to a 365 day year. It then covers a new book on Frederick the Great, detailing his private life with Catt, his conversations on literature philosophy and religion, his dancing memory, Hochkirch disaster reactions, Voltaire’s criticism of his verses, and his brother and sister’s deaths causing deep sorrow.
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Cape Flattery
Humboldt
Pes
Promley
Jezdegird
Sirius
Egypt
Letzig
Frederick the Great
Catt
Frederick
Dani
Landon
Hochkirch
Voltaire
Prince of
Prussia
Therincess of
Baireuth
St. James's Gazette
Humble farmer debunks good old days nostalgia
A well known Orange county farmer of Goshen New York criticizes nostalgia for better prices and lighter taxes. He recalls selling oats for 15 cents a bushel butter 10 cents a pound wheat 75 cents a bushel eggs 6 to 8 cents a dozen and pork at two dollars per hundred. He contrasts past butter quality and milk pricing with present rates and taxes.
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Orange County
Gosken
N. Y
Newburgh
Erie Railway
English Exports of Iron Show Sharp Decline
The Philadelphia Press notes a large drop in English exports of iron and steel products. Returns for 1882 show 157,991,500 dollars, 1853 142,951,080 dollars, and 1884 122,438,345 dollars. U.S. purchases of pig iron fell from 22,425,190 dollars in 1884 to 4,726,820 dollars in 1888, while steel rail imports dropped from 1,944,605 dollars in 1883 to 459,520 dollars in 1884. Hardware and cutlery shipments to the United States were 2,084,780 dollars in 1883 and 1,611,220 dollars in 1884. Other nations also show declines, Russia least, the United States greatest, signaling growing American independence from English iron and steel.
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United States
England
Russia
Philadelphia Press
Outrage Campaign Impacts Irish in London
London letter reports over 40,000 Irish in London unemployed with about one tenth discharged since recent explosions. A priest notes destitution and persecution of Irish in English cities, asserting the worst brutality falls on the Irish, not the English.
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London
Philadelpia Telegraph
Adventures of a Spanish Count in Salt Lake City
A Washington correspondent reports a curious tale from Salt Lake City about a tall Spaniard who joined the Mormons, married a Mormon woman, then left and was seen as an impostor linked to Maj. Montgomery. Records deny any Spanish or Cuban liaison, suggesting the man is Montgomery, a judge advocate corps officer with a checkered postwar career and alleged debt issues. The piece notes Montgomery’s later disappearances, and the Salt Lake tale mentions repeated attempts to borrow money and missionary disbelief about the count.
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Salt Lake City
Washington
Cleveland
Salt Lake
Maj. Montgomery
Judge Advocate’s Corps
Montgomery
United States Army
New York
Chicago
Washington City
Utah
Farm for Breeding Geese Near Virginia Coast
A Philadelphia owned goose ranch in Virginia on about 3000 acres breeds American geese for down and feathers. Geese are fed corn, kept under watch, with plucking about every six weeks focusing on breast feathers. Swan geese are among the largest, life expectancy about forty years, producing six to ten eggs yearly with many hatchings.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Press
Virginia
England
Amering
Justifiable Outburst Over Steer Sparks Arkansas Tale
A famed South Arkansas planter, famed for revivals, faced trouble while hauling cotton when a steer broke the yoke. He argued with himself and God, declaring he is justifiable to mutter, Damn that steer, given mud, missing teams, and risk of mortgage. The brief anecdote appears in the Arkansas Traveler.
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South Arkansaw
Josh Chandler
Anderson
Sam
Arkinsaw Traveler
It Makes a Difference in a London Poem Debate
A ragged tramp begs Labouchere to read a poem claiming it is vital for Tam in need of bread. Labouchere dismisses the piece as trash and refuses money, noting he could earn more elsewhere. The disguise is dropped to reveal Bret Harte, who declines to write for the man.
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Tam
Labouchere
London
Ruth
Labby
Bret Harte
Harte
Cedar Rapids
Smith and Jones Funeral Prank Goes Awry
John Smith reads the morning paper and jokes that Jones is dead and must attend his funeral. Mrs. Smith warns him to verify the corpse before joining a parade of Jones funerals, noting the impracticality of attending every Jones who dies.
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John Smith
Jones
Oldest Connecticut sleigh arrives in Waterbury
The Waterbury American reports the oldest sleigh in Connecticut reached Waterbury on Saturday. Built 136 years ago and now owned by Augustus Blot of Watertown, it remains nearly unchanged with green exterior and pink interior. Previously owned by Judge Hickox of Watertown, the sleigh sits low with a single graceful curve and solid runners.
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Waterbury
Conn
Connecticut
Augustus Blot
Watertown
Judge Hickox
Insanity Cured by Work at the Asylum
A physician describes a treatment for madness via occupation. A man once lost in mental darkness for over three years recovered through work on a mangle, gathering buttons to string on walls, then was paid to kill rats. His progress showed self care and led to release from the asylum according to the Philadelphia Telegraph.
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Philadelphia
Telegrapi
Log rolling then and now in a pioneer log rolling
A nostalgic portrait contrasts modern party politics with the old time practice of log rolling. It describes Sam Smith’s communal event: timber cutting, log heaps, strong labor, a hearty meal, and a rousing log heap burn at sunset. The piece ends noting post event sore muscles and readiness for plowwork.
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Congress
Sam Smith
Sam
Smith
Charin
Bathing in Japan reads like a travel note to Troy
A Tokio letter describes hotel baths shared by guests where heated water serves the whole house. A weary traveler learns only eight have used a bath, and a man boils in a public bath as a wife stokes the fire. Public bathing is banned in cities, yet locals see no harm in convenience.
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Japan
Tokio
Troy
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The
Caldwell Tribune
Caldwell, Idaho Territory
W. J. Cuddy
Market Avenue
A. F. Isham, M. D
Oregon Short Line
Haskell House
Charles E. Lee, M. D
Boise Valley
Ofice
COX & Martin's Drug Store
J. H. Joslin
Surveyor
C. H. Heed
Joslin
Oregon
Fremont Wood
Edgar Wilson
Wood & Wilson
Attorneys-at-Law
Boise City
I. T
S. Land Office
S.moe
Gramm & Little’s Drug Store
A. Caldwell
Robert E. Strr
B. J
Hugh ©. Walla
Hailey OR
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