IDAHO FALLS — EastIdahoNews.com is looking back at what life was like during the week of Oct. 13 to Oct. 19 in east Idaho history.

1900-1925

BLACKFOOT — A business owner walked out of his shop in Blackfoot during the middle of the day and disappeared, The Bingham County News reported on Oct. 14, 1915.

Cliff Rhodes, one of the owners of the Palace Barber Shop, walked outside his shop and headed towards the river on Oct. 13, 1915, around 2 p.m.

No trace of him had been found by his wife or their two children. Rhodes was known as a “moral, honest and prosperous young man.”

“There is no known reason why he should have so suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from his happy home and lucrative business,” the paper wrote. “Suicide has been suspicioned but there is no known reason for such a

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