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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
2
A new family with a disabled father and his wife earn community respect after their neighbors’ Boy Scout troop gathers and hauls logs to form a mountain of kindling in front of their home. The piece praises scouting as building character and living with others.
Paris readers reflect on how modern school books differ from those of their youth noting improved illustrations and editing. They compare today’s texts with the old blue back speller and marvel at progress in education.
City records list Edward Sutton as mayor and S M Rich as councilman with Dan Rich L E Pugmire among the councilors. other names include J W Cook L W Jensen Orson Grimmett Sleight R W Vallentine Smith Hoge clerk Russell Shepherd treasurer, and Marshal W Smith Hoge.
Rulon Ostler announces teaching violin at Fielding Academy two days weekly for a term of thirty lessons priced at twenty dollars with installment options. Ostler, praised by Prof Gustav Schuster, will teach at Emerson School and Fielding Academy, with arrangements through Ostler, President Roy A. Welker, or Principal W W Richards.
A late 1890s Klondike rush reunion in Watson recalls the Yukon gold strike era. The speakers note most wealth came late and small, many died in the cold, and the era proved rainbow chasing unprofitable. They praise steady work and local duty over quick fortunes.
In Chicago the secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover urged laws to marshal savings into home building. He proposed expanding use of savings bank deposits and postal savings to fund homes, backing amendments to the Federal Reserve Act, and shifting a portion of deposits from banks and insurers to housing. He called for a coordinated program from lumbermen, business groups, and lenders to boost home ownership nationwide.
The article reflects on the first day of the fall term, noting children wash faces, wear clean clothes, and return to school with a mix of play spirit and ambition. It praises the drive for self improvement, warns against aimless dawdling, and highlights teachers tapping into students' ambition to succeed. It ends with a note from The Paris Post seeking farmer news and valley updates.
An extra supply of school text books be disposed of at regular price. Schools needing such books can get information and prices by contacting W. W. Richards in Paris Idaho.
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