Directory and court terms in Challis area 1908
Directory items list officials including state senator and treasurer, county attorney, coroner, surveyor, and commissioners with district designations. Terms of Court for Fourth Judicial District show dates in 1908 for Cassia Eluvore and Custer counties. Local lodges Custer Lodge No. 21 and Silver Leaf Rebekah No. 27 announce regular meetings with times and places in Challis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles F. Baker
John J. Fitzpatrick
Jesse G. Finnell
Wrens Rube Howell
E. B. Curtis
George Hosford
Frank Uehren
Fourth Judicial District
Silver Leaf Rebekah NO
Silver Leaf
Rebekah Lodge No
Challis
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Pearl McGowan
N. G
Mabel Jose
Custer
Custer Encampment No
1.C.C.F
Istana
Thomas Jose
Society in the West and Its Welcoming Habit
Harper's notes a Western society welcoming outsiders with openness and mutual inquiry rather than snobbery. The close-knit, village-like circle, rooted in long-standing families, favors familiarity over status. Evenings reveal extensive porch lounging and friendly gossip among residents who know each other well.
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Rockmores
Germantown
Harper's Magazine
Regicides Explained by Italian Degenerate Impulses
A Roman anthropologist explains regicide by emigrant Italians as driven by intellectual degeneracy and miserable foreign life conditions. The analysis links Caserio Lucchesi Bresci and Rubino to impulsive deaths, not anarchist doctrine, noting isolation and poverty fuel desperate acts.
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L'Italie
Sergi
Anthropological Institute
Rome
Caserio
Lucchesi
Angiolitte
Bresci
Rubino
New York Sun
Prof
France
Switzerland
Italy
Belgium
Regi
Glass of empress's drinking glass fetches high price
One thousand pounds has been paid for the drinking glass used by the late empress of Austria while taking the waters at Langen-Schwalbach near Wiesbaden. Loudon News notes the purchase reflects historic fascination with royal memorabilia and the artifact's provenance.
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Prine
Empress of
Austria
Langen-Schwalbach
Wiesbaden
Loudon News
Great Scarcity of Horses Reflects Breeding Shift
The piece traces postwar horse shortages, imports for breeding, and the rise of automobiles reducing demand for carriage horses. It cites Harper's Weekly on delayed breeding, rising prices, and a recovering market, noting 13.5 million horses valued at about 604 million dollars and Europe’s own horse shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Weekly
Europe
Canada
New York
Revolutionary pensions and widows of patriots
A Washington report notes nearly 120 years after the revolutionary war the pension rolls list seven recipients. Three surviving widows Rebecca Mayo Nancy Jones Esther S Damon and four daughters receive monthly sums under a special act. Details trace Mayo’s and Jones’s husbands’ service and pension histories, while Damon’s widow claim follows her husband’s Long Island battle service. Also: a Chicago Chronicle item urges clergy to learn trades to gain independence and usefulness.
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Sam
Washington
Congress
Rebecca Mayo
Newburn
Nancy Jones
Jonesboro
Tenn
Esther S. Damon
Plymouth Union
Rebecca Dawson
Stephen Mayo
Virginia
Brandywine
Germantown
Darling Jones
North Carolina
Mr. Damon
Milton
Mass
Long Island
Science and Industry News Highlights
A survey of early 20th century industrial and scientific topics notes petroleum-fired kilns in use, massage oils aiding consumptives, Wyoming shrub prevalence, and France’s coal growth from 1760 to 1900. It covers Pittsburg steel output relative to nations, arsenic in tobacco, cancer links, and a Mercury orbit study about a possible planet. It also mentions zodiacal light as a source of orbital perturbations.
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Melbourne
Wyoming
France
Pittsburg
England
Germany
Russia
Belgium
Spain
Patrick Manson
Lick Observatory
Leverrier
Verrine
Sparrow Hunter Louis Gorsline Made Notoriety Worldwide
Louis Gorsline rose to fame as a sparrow hunter earning state bounties and national attention. Once a Toledo and Ann Arbor railroad flagman who lost a hand, he expanded into a full time bounty operation with poisoned grain, killing thousands of birds across Michigan over five years and earning more than 14 thousand dollars in bounty payments.
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Louis Gorsline
Toledo
Ann Arbor
McBain
da Bia Seoek
Gorstine
Lower Peninsula
Peningula
The Maid and the Title
A girl accepts many suitors and waits for affection to decide her fate. After a rich uncle’s death leaves one wooer a valuable unencumbered title to land, she shows her preference and marries him the following June. Moral: titles are attractive, even in America.
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America
N. ¥. Herald
What Rede Editor and a Famous Editor Utterance
An authoress asked a famed editor to judge her manuscript and offered to publish another work if it failed. After reading several pages the editor replied humorously that she should place it where her bogs are.
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James F. Atlante
J. N. Sullivan
Charles Stockslager
Yupor
Pistrier
Lyttleton Price
Tand
Neal J. Sharp
W. A. Hodgman
Ouster County
Cassia Ruse
Eluvore County
Custer County
Lyttle
Price
Soci
J. G. Finnell, Scribe
Congregational Church
Rabbath School
Christian Endeavor
Nickerson
Robert W. Philps
Sureey
Odd Wotlows Ball
Atal Street
HET Onice
Mi. Loo P
ML. Challis
Spano
J. ©. Rogers
W. W. Adamson
Rogers & Adamson
R. A. Pierce
W. J. Lamme
Idaho
Tpano
E. Idon
B. Heyburn
Fred
T. Dubois
Burton L
John T. Morrison
Jas. M. Stevens
W. H. Gibson
Heo
Turner John A
Bagley FR
Rounds V
Coozier
Henry N, Coffin
Robert Bell Tiss Mae L
Beott
Ing
Egleson
Frank Nick6rson
Apure
Uulilia
Alaall
Crockery
Challis, Ida
Iutah
Montana
Oregon
D, BE. Burley
G. P
T.A
Salt Lake City, Utah
Medical
Robinson Bai
Warm Spring Creek
Salmon River
Clayton
Superior
Medical Properties
K. D. Williams
Grip
Society IN the West
Revolutionary Pensions
Chicago Chronicle
Science and Industry
Michigan
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