Basin Republication Notice of Second Class Matter
Basin Wyoming announces its newspaper is entered as second class matter at Basin post office on June 30 1906 under the 1879 act.
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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
4
Basin Wyoming announces its newspaper is entered as second class matter at Basin post office on June 30 1906 under the 1879 act.
Subscription set at 2 dollars per year in advance for the Big Horn Basin official paper, serving Basin town and surrounding county readers with local notices and public records.
The piece extends season’s greetings while critiquing U S Congress bills affecting banks and wireless plants. It notes Attorney General Palmer’s ruling that home cider with a kick is not banned by the Volstead act. It references whisky removed from bonded warehouses for the Democratic convention in San Francisco last summer.
Trade publications forecast the coming year will see the largest oil exploration campaign in history as demand outstrips supply. Montana and Wyoming emerge as key research targets with Grass Creek deep tests likely to trigger further drilling in shallow fields and other wildcat ventures. Gas structures may also attract more drilling.
At a regional road meeting in Thermopolis officials blamed failure to inform the public for bond opposition. Rumors claimed highway overhead costs were 20 to 25 percent, but officials say actual expenses ran about 13 percent. A publicity department could have helped sell the bonds.
Services held in the public library with Bible school at 10 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. The sermon theme is The successful search for the Christ. At 7:30 p.m. the choir performs a musical program at the Episcopal church with an offering for the music fund. Rev. Leon A. Lowey, Pastor.
Five years of famine have driven Vienna’s death rate from 15.3 to 22.5 per thousand in 1918, with severe child malnutrition and skin diseases. American Relief Administration led by Herbert Hoover fed 800,000 destitute children, as eight major American charities join the European Relief Council to aid 3.5 million children this winter and seek 35 million dollars.
Dr Harry Plotz reports to the European Relief Council on dire medical conditions among Poland's Jewish population. He cites high infant mortality, widespread tuberculosis and typhus, severe malnutrition, and diseases like favus and smallpox, with Vilna alone reporting 11 000 cases among Jewish children.
A Christmas gift to the European relief drive can save a life. Send contributions to the local committee or directly to the European Relief Council at 42 Broadway New York City.
Dr. Vernon Kellogg reports Poland faces severe hunger and disease after war and notes Warsaw as headquarters began food imports in January 1919. A million and a quarter Polish children receive free daily meals, while eight major groups unite as the European Relief Council to fund food and medical needs for Eastern and Central Europe.
An advertisement for Mulford's Blackleg Aggressin presents it as a germ free product with a large biochemical plant backing. The copy contrasts quality over cheaper options and asks readers to request price quotes for small and then larger quantities from Eppelsheimer-Abbott Pharmacy in Basin Republican.
The piece questions Japanese aims in Shantung under Versailles terms and asks if famine is being used to reduce the Chinese population to clear the way for Japanese settlement. It suggests a first step toward exploitation by allowing population decline.
Havana Cuba touts its taxi system as the cheapest transport, using about eight hundred Ford cars within a mile radius to carry one or two passengers for twenty cents with no speed limits. Drivers perform near-impossible maneuvers and Cuban upholsterers convert Fords with mahogany tonneaus leather interiors and vibrant colors.
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