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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1933
Page
2
The Paris Post lists subscription rates with one year in advance at two dollars two months at one dollar sixty cents and three months at one dollar. Editor and publisher is John A Wallis. The paper is printed weekly on Thursdays and filed as second class matter in Paris Idaho.
Idaho citizens debate tax cuts as lawmakers push to curb government spending. A Emmett meeting of four county tax reduction workers proposes saving nearly nine million dollars by selling state autos and cutting public printing. Critics warn eliminating reporting requirements to the public would invite graft and reduce taxpayer protections during economic stress.
A discussion notes a shift in doorstep canvassing, with outside solicitors and mail campaigns selling magazines stockings and kitchenware. The piece warns that such efforts often do not benefit the local community and questions the motives of traveling salesmen and companies.
Citizens condemn trial sales and door to door solicitors who operate without orders or local payrolls. They warn of nonresidents profiting, lack of community investment, and the risk to residents from signing for promised bargains.
President Hoover and Mrs Hoover visited Nappanee Indiana drawing about ten thousand people at sunrise. Mrs Hoover smiled at the crowd while a boy near ten years old climbed onto the platform rail and chatted with her before the train moved on.
The Kemmerer Gazette reports a planned 16 day first class round trip to California with an 11 day low cost seeing tour. Fare is a full one way plus 50 cents for the return, plus an identification card granting hotel and sight seeing discounts. Critics question summer timing and westward bias in rail pricing.
Head Clerk chides Slowcombe for punctuality then reveals a parrot keeps him awake by perching atop a bedrock alarm as a substitute alarm clock. The scene ends with a plug for Good Dry Wood and a Paris Post telephone note.
Fielding High school will present an original two act Chinese operetta The China Shop in several district towns next week. The work, dedicated to the people of Manisees, follows Fat Sing who wills his wealth to orphans, and Sing Fong who inherits to lead Ping Pong as chief magistrate with comic complications from three would be brides and city officials.
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