Custer County Idaho’s vast mining and farming potential
The article extols Custer County Idaho as rich in mining districts such as Mackay and Yankee Fork, with quartz mills and smelters, extensive irrigation prospects, and strong stock-raising, farming, and timber resources. It highlights geography, population around 5,000, transportation links, climate, schools, and growing tax revenue from livestock. The piece ends with a brief sports aside about a football game and a quip about a distracted player.
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Guster County
Idaho
General Custer
Montana
Stanley Basin
Loon Creek
Custer County
Challis
Mackay
Houston
Clayton
Bonanza
Custer
Stanley
Big Lost River Valley
Thousand Spring
Round
Pahsamaroi
East Bork
Antelope
Connecticut
Delaware
Rhode Island
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
Blackfoot
Morgan Creek
Garden Creek
Bayhorse
Poverty
Centennial Flat
East Fork
Slate Creek
Thompson Creek
Robinson Bar
Fisher
Sheep Mountain
Seafoam
Washington Basin
Yankee Fork
Lucky Boy
Salesmanship and the push to buy book sets
An agent hustles a hurried buyer with a handsome 16 volume Iterature set, four photogravures per volume and hand tooled backs, while the man declines, claiming he is too busy to read. The excerpt also notes evolving views on women and their behavior, with English imports debating whether women will soon be as bad as men.
Quixotieh and a Jest on Sausage and Lovers
A fragment from a humor page features quixotic musings on sausage and sympathy for the under dog, plus a sequence of verse and comic dialogues. It includes a joke about old Skinem giving away the bride, and a wry exchange about wives declaring their mates the light of their life.
Dr Miles Nervine Cure Claim From Windfall Letter
A Windfall Indiana family credits Dr Miles Nervine and Nerve and Liver Pills with curing their child’s fits after four years of epilepsy. The letter from M Bogue says doctors doubted cure but the medicines relieved convulsions, with a money back guarantee if not beneficial. Sold by all druggists. Miles Medical Co Elihar t Indiana.
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Miles
M. Bogue
Ind
Miles Medical CO
Elihart
The Pesky Moth Rhyme and a Childs Question
The piece presents a playful verse about a moth and a child asking what separates an excuse from an explanation. A mother answers that an excuse is the reason a man gives for going downtown, while an explanation is the reason for not returning home at a respectable hour, with a humorous glance at the father.
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Findys
Inventive Genius and Quirky Local Banter
A quirky snippet shows neighbors chatting about Christmas gifts and a ram over a piano while a man boasting of a new auto motive power claims doubled speed without odor. The dialogue includes humorous exchanges about lessons, drowning out sound, and odd food experiments from town.
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Mercy
Noble Women Gossip on the Florida Hotel Front Porch
Women gossip about men and Christmas, arguing trust and gifts as the Wise Maiden vows no quarrel until after Christmas. The chat devolves into satire as a party debates romance, manners, and heredity shaping behavior.
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Florida Hotel
Couse
Cristmas
Haunted Pumpkin Pie Mystery in Pucker Wisconsin
A garbled excerpt describes a caller named Minmans kissing a frightened Miss Crimi as a winter tale unfolds. The text hints at a vanished joy and a pumpkin pie with real pumpkin, set in a quaint Wisconsin locale. The record captures a quirky, incomplete local-college voice with faint names and actions.
Enjoyable Outing and Odd Inquiries at the Hotel
An informal scene recalls a friend spending two weeks at a famed yegort for scenery and outdoor attractions. Conversational quips about a vacation spot and hotel staff contrast with a humorous milk claim and a butcher shop interaction featuring a pale girl and a glinting knife.
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Yegort
Clork
He Succeeded Bluefish and Shad’s Social Entrance
A whimsical tale where Bluefish and Shad mock society by the sea. Basa notes they were invited and feasted at Te Wealth’s on the first day, turning a social gambit into a dinner scene.
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Basa
Te Wealth
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Sawtooth Mountains
Wood River
Salmon
Pyeett
England
Elgnes
Imenner
Nervine
HE &C Idaho Stage Co
Chalto Bayhorse
Robinson
Concord
Thunder Mountain
Yellow Jacket
Forney
Singiser
Leesburg
Blackbird
Lem
Mit
Express
C.V. Hansen
F. Nickerson
Agt
Blacksmith
Rodger Brasseur
Ida
Ouslet
Layton
Toal
Salmon City
Ouuiley Basin
Eafoum
Uicke
U.S. Mail
Passengers
C. V. Hanson
Mrs. B. I Kirk
Chall
Salmon River
Spring
Bath
Magnesia
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