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Newspaper
The Caldwell Tribune
Location
Caldwell, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1909
Page
6
An analysis in 1906 emphasizes improving stock quality over quantity for both cattle and horses. It details two viable strategies: grow sufficient winter feed or run high grade stock to maximize rapid returns. It cites North Dakota experiences with range horses, noting rising value as herd quality improves and early breeding becomes profitable.
A scrap lumber approach to bobsled links is described while an agricultural note reports manure alone boosting hay and corn yields over six sixteen years at Massachusetts station. The yield gains do not offset manure costs of five dollars per cord, highlighting cost and crop response tradeoffs for farmers.
A London suburb wholesale firm with two traveling salesmen faced a salary dispute. The single man earned 30s weekly while the married man got £2. The senior partner claimed to have “made it right” by reducing the married man’s pay to balance the single man’s higher sales, rather than increasing the single man’s wages.
The famed tenor Sims Reeves, celebrated on the concert stage, often faced an eager admirer who urged encores. To teach a lesson, Reeves bought three hats from the dealer and instructed the man to send four hats, joking that the three extra hats were encore hats and that the man must pay for them if Reeves sang again. The ruse left the admirer speechless.
A London audience witnessed Mr. Huntley Wright debut in a comedy of errors as a warder in a mad house scene. Nervousness caused him to knock his cap, misfire, and handle a pan of gunpowder that exploded. He fled the stage and collapsed, mistaking a water-filled bucket for a stool.
A privy friend and the firm’s self-proclaimed brain trade barbs on judgment. The partner is praised for asking advice before every move, illustrating a humorous view of decision making in a boastful exchange.
In a dialogue between A and Edward, the topic centers on Gerald potentially marrying. Edward questions why he should marry if it risks changing his comfortable wealth status, while A notes the objection as a controversial but common concern in social circles.
A quick exchange shows Ed Chap being urged to quit smoking with the remark It hurts you. He replies with a stubborn sentiment that every time he resolves to stop someone convinces him to light up. The fragment captures a comical stubborn stance.
The British Medical Journal compiles a string of deathbed utterances from figures like Pasteur, Darwin, Goldsmith, and Mirabeau. It notes courage, faith, resignation, or wit in final moments, including Darwin's calm remark about dying and Mirabeau’s brief word Dormir to his doctor.
Lealie's Weekly describes the Japanese New Year cake made from boiled and pounded rice, shaped like the sacred mirror, and offered to Shinto deities. Every family member helps in crafting the dough, with even a baby taking a ceremonial mallet blow for luck. The cake lasts most of the year and dominates the daily menu.
A Chicago Record-Herald anecdote contrasts the electric chair and electric eel with a buglike fish that lures prey by a wormlike lure on its head. The piece treats angling as a sly game of bait and blood and ends with a vivid, ironic image of a Shylock-like fisher using his own flesh and bone as tackle.
Guidance on stopping nosebleeds by keeping the head raised and applying pressure under the upper lip to compress the artery. If needed, use a paper wad under the lip, and seek adrenalin from a drug store applied to the interior nose to halt bleeding.
6000 acres state lands to be sold at auction at Burley Idaho on June 15. Reduced rates available via Oregon Short Line Railroad with tickets from Idaho and Oregon points June 13 14 and 15 and from Utah and other points June 12 18 and 14. Inquiries to W T Jack Burley Idaho. Also notice of pardon application for I E G Bules convicted of forgery in January 1909 seeks full pardon from Idaho State Penitentiary at Boise. board of pardons meeting after publication.
W Kemnes of Ashland Wisconsin filed in the land office an entry application under the provisions of May 3 1873 for lots 1 2 and SW in section 20 township 3 north range 3 east B M. Adverse claimants may file davits of protest in the office on or before July 10 to object to mineral character or any other reason as to the proposal to the applicant. Balderston Register. May June 26.
Public notice announces an 1909 land patent protest deadline and a private sale of Caldwell Canyon County lots 19 20 21 in Dorman Add to Caldwell. Sale starts June 28 1909 with cash bids at Eaton Block Caldwell Idaho. 10 percent bid with balance on court confirmation. Administrators schedule dates June 11 1908 June 19 1909.
County commissioners invite sealed bids for metal bridge culverts made of Ingot and No-coro metal in sizes 12 to 30 inches, 20 feet long. Bids open July 23 at 10 am in the commissioners room, Aero Court House. Certified check of five percent required with each bid.
Canyon County Board of Commissioners invites bids for four Bessemer steel cells six by seven by seven feet with five foot corridors and a supporting pad for the insane, plus removal of four old cells. New cells to be installed on the courthouse top story. Purchaser must post a 7 percent certified check with bids, opened July 1. O V Badley, Clerk.
In the Seventh Judicial District of Idaho Canyon County the plaintiff Carter sues defendants Burlington Wattles and Wells to foreclose a mortgage dated December 21 1905 to Eleanor Stevens on land in section six township four north range four west containing 80 acres with water rights and ditches. The decree seeks payment of $246 3 and the mortgage costs with notices of sale and rights of redemption.
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