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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1902
Page
7
Guide offering procedures for locating mining claims with chapters on mineral lands discovery location work recording placer and mill sites, annual labor, amended certificates, relocation of abandoned claims, and related notices. Includes required forms, affidavits, and durations for staking and recording. Sent by mail on receipt of 61.00.
Neal s Carriage Paint is featured at Moyers big Paint and Paper store in a compact mention highlighting products and shop prominence.
Helen Keller writes her life story for Ladies Home Journal using Braille notes then a typewriter. Her teacher Miss Sullivan spells each sentence for Keller by hand while proofs are revised, with every word passing through her fingers at least five times. Publishers recognize her extraordinary ability and patience.
A Carrollton hotel barber shop in Baltimore sterilizes every tool by heat before use. Towels razors strops soap combs and brushes are all sterilized. Where sterilization is not available barbers are urged to use Newbro’s Herpicide to kill dandruff germs and antiseptically treat scalp and face.
The latest street date in millinery at Mas. M. L. Hanns signals new season fashions. Also noted is Moyer's New Carriage Paint Shop opening for business and a brief health update reporting a few cases of smallpox at Dell on Willow Creek.
A spokesman details the Eureka & Western railway project from Eureka to Weiser Idaho. The line, backed by Harriman and Hill, is a $25,000,000 finance deal with Drake & Stratton of New York sub letting the contract. Route surveys cover Humboldt to Lassen, Burney valley, Pitt river, and Fall River Mills, aiming to connect with existing lines at Weiser and Reno. The plan emphasizes winter operability, low elevations, and a branch toward Bully Hill, with potential steamship links to the Orient considered.
The item discusses ambitious plans to develop the Columbia River for navigation from its mouth to Idaho wheat fields. It notes potential large ships up the Platte, blasting Upper Columbia rocks, and using transport loading from Portland for the Philippines. It highlights Weissier and Lewiston business interests and local boosters in Idaho and Oregon. It mentions salmon spawning in Idaho and abundant wildlife, plus regional population ties to Denver. It closes with an advertisement and a list of names from various towns.
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