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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1931
Page
2
A Paris Idaho newspaper piece discusses trade over money shortages. It suggests exchanging surplus goods like oil and barrels for socks and urges railroads to swap transportation to aid both sides. The author envisions a barter economy reducing reliance on banks and cash.
Oklahoma farmers swap wheat for coal with miners as bartering expands. Brazil proposes trading surplus coffee for U.S. wheat, arguing money is a weak measure and exchanges should occur without money whenever possible.
A survey of twenty nine small towns in Pennsylvania New York West Virginia Virginia and Maryland shows high ownership of homes 71.4 percent and cars 66.7 percent with 88.4 percent electric service 76.7 percent savings accounts 45.2 percent telephones and 41.0 percent vacuum cleaners 51.5 percent electric washers. A cartoonish farm journal quote accompanies the piece noting dealer avoidance of middlemen and a doctor visit reference.
Comedy in capital letters is promised by Rich Theatre for a two day run of Forbidden Adventure a satire on Hollywood with Mitzi Green Edna May Oliver Louise Fazenda and Jackie Sears in the leads. The film is based on Sinclair Lewis latest novel Lets Play King and honors the Nobel laureate author of Main Street Babbitt Arrowsmith and others with a large cast of supporting English and French humor.
A banker counsels cutting loan risk as J A Augaton cites diversified holdings but stresses livestock as the quickest liquid asset. Central Livestock Markets influence supply chains for stockers feeders and fat cattle while experts debate if prices have bottomed and if a gradual upward climb is likely.
A scarf was reported lost on Paris streets. Please contact Mrs. Caddie Neibaur to reclaim.
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