Public meeting on school plans in Challis
A public meeting of citizens is called for Monday evening April 28 at 8 o'clock in the Court House to discuss adding another department to Challis Public School and next term employ three teachers. The proposal aims to establish a local High School for county children to avoid sending them out of county. All interested should attend. by order of the Board of Trustees.
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Court House
Challis Public School
Board of Trustees
Treasurer's Notice and local briefs from Challis era
The document lists warrants for Custer County with payment terms and interest, issued in 1903–1906, plus deadlines for presentation. It also notes local items: seeds for sale, a resignation reconsideration of a road overseer, books on sale, court attendance, a school term ending, teachers praised, a baby voting contest for a gold ring, and corrected real estate payment figures.
Random political musings and public figures in 1900s discourse
A collage of opinions and quips about legal cases, corporate power, and public figures. Mentions include Reed Smoot, Jerome, Hadley, Standard Oil, the Panama Canal, Banquo’s Ghost, Governor Pattison, Roosevelt, Carnegie, Rogers, Gen Wood, Rockefeller, and Mrs. Rockefeller. Reflects sharp irony about law, politics, and society.
Iowa Governor Jolts Republicans Over Rate Bill Leadership
The piece notes Governor Cummins jolting the Republican party amid the rate bill fight. It criticizes President Roosevelt relying on Tillman the Democrat with two thirds Senate support and cites Carmack Bailey Simmons and Raynor as backers, framing the GOP as damaged by this alignment.
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Cummins
Iowa
Senate
Tillman
Carmack
Bailey, Simmons
Raynor
Richmond man finds third wife by advertising
A Richmond resident has found his third wife via an advertisement, while a separate incident reports two Georgia men killed in a pistol duel over a mule quarrel. The wife’s name was not Maud.
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Richmond
Georgia
Maud
County court house urged for Custer county Idaho
The county commissioners bought a vacant lot opposite the county building to store records in a fireproof rock office. The piece argues a new fireproof court house is a sound financial move saving rent and fuel costs, and protecting county records. It urges residents to vote bonds and build a proper courthouse rather than reuse the current structure as a store.
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Brown
Idaho
Custer
Lemhi
Custer County
Blackfoot
Idaho Mining Rights and Quaker Concert Company Notes
Mining rights for sale at this office priced at one dollar with quartz location blanks. Quaker Concert Company played free shows in this city last week with a paid gate Saturday night and will continue another week of free concerts before moving to Salmon. The group of four performers travels as Company No 18 among 41 road units and touts a new program nightly. Their medicines are claimed to help many, and they are described as plain, friendly workers.
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Quaker Concert Company
Salmon
Miss Dora Klug Wins Nail Driving Prize at Show
At the show last Saturday night seven young ladies entered the nail driving contest and Miss Dora Klug won a prize set of strawberry dishes. A Portland telegram notes Articles of Incorporation filed for the San Francisco Idaho & Montana Railway Company with 50 million capital, Boise as principal business location, routing from San Francisco through Nevada Oregon Idaho to Butte Montana, 1000 miles, with a Mason to Winnemucca link.
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Dora Klug
Portland
Oregon
San Francisco, Idaho & Montana Railway Company
Secre
San Francisco
Nevada
Idaho
Boise
Butte
Montana
Mason
Winnemucca
Advertising and home merchants versus Sears Roebuck in Oregon
An implement dealer mocks a farmer who buys a wagon from Sears Roebuck at a railway depot and notices the farmer reading his home paper. The exchange highlights Sears advertising power and the need for local merchants to compete on the same ground. The piece closes with unrelated, brusque verse and threats tied to a vulgarized line about a song.
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Sears Roebuck
Chicago
Oddball Rural Dispatches Mix Water War and Ice Folklore
The item humorously notes Chicago draining into the Mississippi affecting St Louis water, reports Rochester Indians finding a nine foot ice layer with a thawed frog, and mocks Indiana whiskey inspectors. It also questions Tennessee’s thermometer while Bob Taylor and Ed Carmack stir the state.
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Rochester
Hanley
Indiana
Tennessee
Bob Taylor
Ed, Carmack
New Smelting Plant Project Near Ogden Utah
Ogden Utah April 2 The Oregon Short Line has begun a large grading outfit for a new spur to the site of a planned 1 000 000 smelting plant to be erected by Utah Smelting seven miles north of Ogden. Completion expected within six months. plant would be first independent smelting in the region since the trust gained control of the industry.
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Ogden
Utah
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
Utah Smelting Company
Ogdona
Charles M. Schwab
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Incu
H. Leaton
Challis House
Grace K. Dodge
Challis
Sale Stables
Dass Rika
T.J. Kerr & Son
S. Challis
Dr. W. Shanafelt
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Massenger Mice
Ipano
Main Street
Thunder Mt
Board & Lodging
Urs
J. P. Spalding
Yeadence
Fox Hotel
Road and Bridge Fund
F. J. Clype
Buster's
John Mack
City Drug Store
M. A. Brow
U. S
Pocatello
Harry
Anderson
Baby Kerr
Baby Foley
E. G. Dodge
Hadley
Missouri
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Court of Appeals
Chicago Packers
Poultney Bigelow
Panama Canal Commission
Banquo
King
Mr. Bigelow
Ohio
Pattison
Roosevelt
Congress
Mr. Carnegie
Carnegie
St. Louis
Mississippi
Gen. Wood
Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
Egypt
Tokyo
Mackay
M. & C. I. Stage Co
J. D. Woods
Salem
Supreme Court
Hotel
Leaton
Matn Street
Chailin
Idabo
W. H. Leaton
Ati
F. Hall
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