HISTORY MOMENTS The Idaho State Historical Society reports that during this week in history: The newly refitted and refurbished Miners' Home hotel reopened on August 26, 1865, in Silver City, offering weekly board and lodging for $18. The proclamation officially announcing that the suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution had been ratified was signed on August 26, 1920, by Secretary Colby of the State Department. Liquor sales remained illegal until 1933. The August 24, 1899, issue of The Independent (Payette) advertised "choice fruit lands in the Payette Valley with free water for sale at $12.50 per acre." The United States Library of Congress—and its 3,000 books—was destroyed by invading British troops on August 25, 1814. Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, was published on August 27, 1912. As a youth, Burroughs spent time on a ranch owned by his brothers in South Central Idaho where he "rode the range, herded cattle, busted a bucking bronco, and got to know a few thieves, murderers and bad men." When his parents found out about these sordid events of frontier life, they sent him off to the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Queen Cleopatra of Egypt committed suicide on August 30, 30 BC.