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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1901
Page
4
A Belem Massachusetts clipping laments witch trials and royal mourning attitudes, contrasts past male restraint with present legal divorce issues, and condemns licentious behavior tied to wealth. The piece wishes for stricter personal honor and denounces ecclesiastical meddling in marriages.
New York society reacts to the divorce of Pearl Curley Hunt and architect Richard Howland Hunt. Reports say William K. Vanderbilt plans a swift divorce settlement, with Vanderbilt possibly escorting Hunt and her mother to Florida. The piece notes Hunt’s war era nursing and her high social connections.
The article argues for appropriating funds to complete a 20 mile extension of the Little Salmon Wagon Road to connect with the state road. It claims benefits for Idaho’s economy by linking mineral, agricultural, and stock industries to markets, reducing danger and improving access compared with the current difficult trails.
Develop is not remote but sits midway between the densest settler regions and the core of Idaho. Citizens push to extend the line, with two route options: Pulls direct down Little Salmon from Round Valley or a mountain route beyond the terminus of the state line. Rails of the Northern Pacific near Grangeville raise the prospect of aligning Pacific and Idaho Northern to Council, forcing northern residents to cross rival paths, while broader demands for other roads should not delay this key state project.
The business page voices concern that subsidy ships would carry all foreign mails, delaying Europe-bound mail by days and harming American exporters. It notes that contracts prize shipbuilding over performance, offering no guaranteed speed or trips, and warns of potential loss of dollars under new subsidies.
Morning meals feature gandes a corn porridge with milk or soupe malgre with cream followed by curds or special hbomemae goat cheese aged in ashes and flavored with brandy. Breakfast includes white wine. Midday meals use salt pork with vegetables and broth for supper. Occasional ragout de mutton and pot au feu appear for Sundays amid sociable exchanges and generous hospitality.
A Donegal custom recruits farm workers and servants for six months at hiring fairs with meager pay and board. The piece contrasts poor homes with the skill of Irish servants, praising devotion and loyalty during hardship, and ends with a quip about marriage and sacrifice.
An English correspondent recalls Tudor era bull running at Tutbury. Bulls were hornless and peppered, then hunted by minstrels from Staffordshire to win a hair trophy. The grotesque pageantry reflected the era’s brutal leisure customs alongside a note about local loans offered by R. McKrysey in Weiser.
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