United Commercial Travelers Meet In Pocatello
Pocatello hosts a three day United Commercial Travelers convention starting Monday with Idaho Utah and Montana councils. An audience of retail merchants joins a civic parade wrestling bouts boxing match and a grand ball as visitors tour the city with decorated autos and band concerts.
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Pocatello
Gate City
United Commercial
Idaho
Utah
Montana
Convention Committee
Center Street
Young Griffo
Burley
Chester
Ogden
Dan Hart
Charles Cook
Glenn’s Ferry
Bannock Hotel
Samms’ Military Band
First Avenue
Main
Arthur
Convention Hall
Arthur Chester
Reil Merchants’ Association
Reail Merchants
United Commercial Travelers
Dan Hurl
Grand Ball U. C. T
Retail Merchants’ Association
Auditorium Theatre
First and Center
Samms
Sells Floto Show Brings Birth of Baby Elephant
When the Sells Floto circus arrives on Friday June 14 patrons will view a newborn baby elephant born in Salinas California on April 25 of the current year. The calf weighs 180 pounds, stands 24 inches high and 36 inches long with a 10 inch trunk. Its mother Alice refuses to care for it and handlers raised the calf by hand. The calf is a rare on‑American-soil birth and will appear in the menagerie during the show.
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Sells-Floto Circus
Salinas
Cal
Alice
Cooking Fish In A Ground Oven With Bacon And Grass
A passage from Outing Magazine by Edward G. W. Ferguson describes cooking fish outdoors by digging a hole, layering hot coals, grass, and bacon fat to steam and fry the fish. The method yields juicy flesh with grassy aroma, and the grass scales away with the fish when served.
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Delmonico
Edward G. W. Ferguson
Outing Magazine
Banquet notables mark Academy of Idaho alumni event
Last night at Bannock hotel the seventh annual Alumni banquet of the Academy of Idaho was a standout success. Donald Burnside led planning with Mrs Maud Dayton and Ray Bistline. Harry Derham acted as toastmaster delivering witty remarks and guidance to the class of 1912. The menu featured Consomme Royal Lobster Trout Capon and varied desserts while the program included greetings to the class and responses from Florence Bean Chadwick and George Chadwick.
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Bannock Hotel
Alumni Association of the
Academy of Idaho
Donald Burnside
Maud Dayton
Ray Bistline
Academy
A. I
Harry Derhai
Bannock
Istitution
Association
Consomme Royal Olives
Ashton Trout
Cafe Noir
Harry M. Derham
Desewars Florence Bean
George Chadwick
Pocatello Paving Bid Night Signals City Growth
Pocatello hosts bids for bitulithic paving of 20 blocks in its business core as city council sets tonight’s bid opening. The project aims to ease winter mud and summer dust, part of a broader 1912 boom including a new federal building and major street upgrades.
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Pocatello
Gate City
Gem State
Hayes Avenue
Center Street
First Avenue
East Center
Seventh Avenue
Sublette Street
North Main Street
Halliday Street
South Main
Warren Brothers
St. Marie
South Main Stret
East
Main Street
Center
Academy
Arthur Avenue
Recitation Programs and Alumni Association Events
A listing of recitation pieces and alumni association responses from the 1911 12 school year. Includes selections by Cooke Miss Barnes Mrs Ferrer and Prof Miles F Reed with remarks on the functions of alumni association response and involvement of Walter H Cleare.
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Miss Barnes
E. F. Ferrer
Miles F. Reed
Beadle and Minister Forge Unlikely Accord
A west country minister and his beadle John clash over a dispute. The minister tries to calm matters by humor, saying if all minds shared his view everyone would want his wife Janet. John retorts that if all minds matched his, Janet would not have a wife and would make a poor show as a minister’s wife.
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Beadle
John
Janet
Jean
London
Miners Threaten Over Woman Messenger Mystery
In a Victorian England coalfield near Oswestry a female messenger faced hostility as miners believed it a bad omen to meet a woman first in the day. After attempts to pressure her to quit failed, the miners and others visited the manager and refused to descend until she was dismissed.
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England
Oswestry
Punning Match Ends With Father and Son Exchange
A father laments his last shilling while joking about money and wings in a punning exchange with his fifteen year old son. The boy counters with a quip about houses having wings and flying, as the amused father concedes his son is clever.
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London
Dewy Reminder Sparks Departure in Faint Dream
A terse exchange recalls a warning about falling dew and an urge to depart before it settles. The man shows worry as a looming burden or dues unsettled by the imagined dream.
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Bis Fee
Insects Endure Arctic Cold and Yet Stay Vital
Scientists note that mosquito and butterfly larvae survive extreme cold. A butterfly larva chilled to 60 degrees below zero and thawed recovered quickly, while butterflies and mosquitoes in Alaska and Greenland remain unusually robust at far northern latitudes.
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Alaska
Greenland
Liquid Fuel Oils and Fire Safety Standards
The article explains that oils with flash points around 239 F do not ignite when shot at or when dynamite detonates nearby, and that most commercial fuels are safe as volatile gases are removed. Oils with fire tests 180 to 200 F are as safe as coal and do not ignite when stirred with hot tools or exposed to hot coals.
Japanese Wit at Luncheon Recalled Russo Japanese War Tale
A Japanese official in New York shared a luncheon anecdote recalling the Russo Japanese war. In a Washington city tale, a Russian and a Japanese discuss the coming conflict at a dance. The Russian jokes about drinking champagne in Tokyo, while the Japanese notes his country cannot afford prisoners of war champagne.
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New York
Washington
Russia
Japan
Tokyo
They Married Widows and Notable Presidents
A compact item notes five presidents who married widows including Washington Jefferson Madison Fillmore and Benjamin Harrison, highlighting a pattern in presidential marriages.
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Washington, Jefferson
Madison
Fillmore
Benjamin Harrison
Idaho Statesman Snapshots Local Paper Clippings
Fragmentary OCR reads like a battered Idaho Statesman page with terse lines. It hints at local notices, ads, and brief items from Idaho venues, names, and events but lacks complete sentences or clear subjects.
Flower Tapers Delicate Lilacs Susceptible To Ether Vapors
Report notes potted lilacs placed near ether in tight cases enter torpor within 36 hours. If watered and kept in a warm, humid hothouse, after 15 days they show abnormal development. Roses resist. carnation pink and hyacinth show poor response to alcohols or similar intoxicants.
A tactless youth and a lady’s forgiven offense
A youth criticises a lady’s hat and is rebuked yet forgiven. The exchange ends with his cheeky remark about future submission and the woman’s calm response.
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Tribun
Agate
Telefhone
Central
BE. L. Farwell
Chicago
F.M. Watson & Sons
Cooke
Walter H. Cleare
THE
Idaho Statesman
Ernie Mo
Carpheum Theatre
Marion Leonard
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