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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1913
Page
6
The Idaho legislature acts on a range law as amended and signed by the Governor. It limits range stock to fifteen female cattle and a pure bred bull per herd when two or more owners jointly supply the bull. The dairy herd exemption and other details are specified by the new statute filed with the secretary of state.
The Hill proprietor at Sho shone Smokehouse advertises Chamberlains Cough Remedy as a safe effective option for children, praising its pleasant taste and lack of harm. The notice also outlines a Walden silverware premium schedule offering free items with specified trade values, including teaspoons, tablespoons, and various serving pieces.
The article argues that poverty drives achievement and that persistent, steady labor shapes greatness. It cites Johnson Carlyle Dickens Burke and Burke again, stressing daily drudgery, long hours, fixed aims, and unyielding application as the path to success, with quotes and examples from Goil and Meyerboer alongside other luminaries.
An old ad provides plumbing metaphor about the body and digestion. It urges keeping plumbing in first class condition and promotes Chamberlain's tablets for digestion trouble. Sold by all druggists.
An internal remedy claim for Hall's Caterrah Cure highlights its action on blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials and a price of 78 cents per bottle. It notes sale by druggists and references Hall's Family Pills for constipation as a separate item.
A reflection on Abraham Lincoln’s character and leadership, urging printing simple moral rules of conduct and applying them in business. The passage emphasizes Lincoln’s fair judgment, generosity, magnanimity, modesty, gentleness, strength, and the value of judging men by deeds. It contrasts President Lincoln with the ideal of virtuous leadership.
The Philadelphia Evening Telegram lists 27 Presidents with varied backgrounds. Seventeen were college bred including Adams and Roosevelt at Harvard Jefferson and Monroe at Williams College Madison at Princeton and Grant at West Point. Ten had no college training and several born in Virginia or Ohio.
Century Edition Sheet Music offered at ten cents per copy with requests for the catalogue from Starrh Drug Store.
The Albion Normal School in Albion Idaho advertises an Eight Weeks Course for Teachers from July 14 to July 20 1913 and a regular Normal School Work from July 21 to August 27 1913. A six weeks Summer Term runs before May and August exams with board and room at dormitories listed at 4 per week. The note teases credits from a State normal school and urges enrollment aided by a liberal appropriation.
The post office department reports a flood of resignations as fourth class postmasters face compulsory competitive exams. About twenty resignations arrive daily, with roughly 20 fourth class postmasters quitting since executive order extended civil service rules. Most resignations occur where salaries are nominal and operating costs exceed receipts. Eggs for sale include thoroughbred Rhode Island Red and Indian Runner ducks. Delno McMahon offers 160 acre irrigated land near Dietrich for rent with crop or share arrangements and 120 acres cleared and ploughed, 40 acres fenced and cultivated.
Advertorial notes Dr King’s New Discovery as a forty three year proven cough remedy with over three million bottles used last year. It promises refunds if not effective and quotes J J Owens of Allendale DC praising it after twenty years of use. Also lists 50c to $1.00 price. Includes rental and sale classifieds for a furnished cottage and a piano sale at Shoshone Hardware.
A promotional line touts Round Trip tobacco as the smokers best with a window display at the Smokehouse. It mentions $1500 each for at least four counties in the state and says this will stimulate organizing Idaho counties.
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