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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1920
Page
8
Classifieds show multiple sale and rental offers. A farm near Filer lists 80 acres with five room bungalow, deep well, fence, and flexible payment options. Nearby autos and building materials advertised. Several notices seek trades, furnished housekeeping, and a girl to learn tailor trade. Local contact details include West 761 and phone numbers 266 M 867 12.
A scanned 1920s business directory list includes names and occupations such as analytical chemist and health boards, architects, piano tuners, photographers, bankers, lawyers, notaries, and beauty parlors. Also contains court notices and land patent public notices with assignees, witnesses, and witnesses’ counties, plus multiple dates and serial numbers.
Chicago and Omaha stock quotations show cattle steady to lower with steers topping around 12.50 and hogs down 10 to 15 cents from yesterday. In Chicago buyers faced slow demand for feeders and a weak stocker market while Omaha reports lighter runs and top hogs near 9.90 with mixed beef steer demand and mainly steady sheep and lamb values.
Butter prices ranged 48 to 74 cents on various grades with new receipts and firsts noted. Flour quotes held for yeark delivery with bundled family patents around 109.40 per barrel and 98 pound packs. Potatoes showed slight firmness with northern white at 1.85 per cwt and Idaho Russets at 1.75.
Liberty bonds figures are listed for several series with prices noted for first second and third issues. A travel note quotes Conan Doyle and a statement about explorers northward movement. Ames Iowa reports a plan to extend poultry house lighting to boost production. San Francisco notes bandits stealing three kewpie dolls from a doll plant.
Bears dominate grain trade as wheat closes sharply down in Chicago with December at 1.603-4 and March 1.57-3-4, corn and oats also weaker while provisions fall. Reports cite Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago urging loan liquidation and rumors of a Kansas wheat receipts rise, amid hedging activity and domestic milling demand.
A vivid fragment depicts Chicago households employing a premium, punctual servant who travels with her own alarm clock. She arrives at eight precisely, eats breakfast at the mistress’s expense, leaves at noon, then returns for a four o clock departure after tidying tools and collecting her hat coat and clock. A second item notes Mrs Louise Weaver, 84, a cousin and childhood playmate of Thomas Edison, dying in Atlantic Iowa. A separate report mentions John Bell’s drunk will and a niece, plus local court notes.
An eccentric regional piece notes a surge of child prodigies across abilities from chess to languages and math. It cites Polish origins for prodigy fame, cites astonishing talents, and humorously laments the flood of extraordinary young performers amid a nation-wide census of gifted children.
Public notice from the Department of the Interior Boise Meridian announces Adella R. Hoffman of Murtaugh Idaho intends final proof for Desert Entry No 010048 for NE1 4 NBl 4 Section 15 Township 12 South Range 20 East on January 20 1921 at Twin Falls Idaho. Witnesses are Martin Olsen Arthur Rhodes William Keller J G Waller all of Churchill. Also includes unrelated clippings about D Annunzio and Lloyd George statements and partnership notice for Central Market Twin Falls with B D Kester and H Vogel.
Cincinnati court grants divorce to Mrs. Josephine Rohe claiming her husband Frank Rohe stopped loving her due to nine months without affection. The ruling cites lack of marital harmony as grounds for dissolution.
Department of the Interior, U.S. Land Office at Halley, Idaho, gives notice that Henry Sewall Macaw of Filer, Idaho, who filed on March 20, 1916 for a listed block in section 37 and nearby sections, has filed intent to make final three year proof to establish his claim. The hearing is set for January 11, 1921 before H. E. Powers, A.S., with witnesses Richard L. Williams, Martin J. Macaw, Roy Smalley, and George Battey in Twin Falls and Buhl Idaho.context
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