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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1921
Page
5
Revenue totals from all funds are reported including transfers and apportionments as part of the comprehensive financial statement. The document outlines the overall receipts, allocations, and moving funds across accounts for the period.
Abstract of expenses shows interfund transfers and expenditures for road and bridge projects. Detailing payments, allocations, and balances among funds, it outlines charges for materials labor and services across departments and projects.
Abstract of expenses shows totals 45 491 49 for road overseers and labor 62 709 91 for lumber and supplies 142 00 for bridges culverts and miscellaneous 14 819 65 1 160 77 17 053 37 indicating itemized municipal accounting for the year ending January 10 1921.
Details show multiple bond issues including First and Second Series raid on net debt with ten twenties at 6 percent payments biannually January and July. Third Series dated 1912 refunds ten twenties, Fourth Series 1914 funds state highway five twenties at 54 percent, totaling net debt as approved by County Commissioners chair.
A new worm and gear set is manufactured for Ford trucks to raise speed from five to seven miles per hour without altering engine speed. The truck with standard gearing runs at fifteen miles an hour. dealers install the special gearing upon customer request to achieve higher speed.
An American inventor introduces a motion picture camera that he says can take up to 100,000 photographs per second, promising unprecedented speed in capturing movement. The claim centers on a device enabling ultra fast sequential imagery for film.
The first street letter boxes were erected in New York and Boston on August 2 1858. On April 6 1860 Congress mandated returning uncalled for letters to the writer when printed on envelopes. The money order service began in the United States on November 1, and the international money order system followed three years later.
A hypothetical farmer claims ten billion potatoes could arise from a single tuber in ten years. The idea imagines seed supply for the world and highlights exponential growth in cultivation.
A dignified man, known briefly, visited to say goodbye before a long trip. Upon entering the parlor, crepe hung on all furniture was discovered, cast by the narrator in reflection of the moment reported by the Chicago Tribune.
The bolometer is described as the most sensitive instrument yet, invented by Langley, used to measure minute heat radiation variations. It detects changes as small as a millionth of a degree, with a platinum wire component visible only when light reflects off it.
A Sunday forenoon blaze at 660 South First Avenue, Pocatello, destroyed the Northwestern Auto Supply interior. Manager Crittenden estimates stock damage near $200,000, not including building loss, papers, or records. Firemen fought the flames for about three hours after 10 am, preserving adjacent buildings and saving most records.
Experiments by Dr J G Cumming show throat and lung infections spread when forks and spoons used by the ill are washed in the same water as the rest of the household tableware. The findings imply home hygiene risks from shared dishwashing water.
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