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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1921
Page
4
The Shoshone Journal is published every Friday at Shoshone, Idaho by Edward T. Barber, editor and proprietor. Subscription price is two dollars per year. Postage paid at Shoshone, Idaho. Local printing and masthead details appear in the issue.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a dated market note referencing prices per bushel, locations, and a scattered list of names. It hints at a cereal trade tally with unclear figures and regional terms, mentioning Petal, Shoshigah, and a farmer group.
Fragmentary text describes a town funeral with mourners and a procession. It mentions a grave, singing a doxology, and a sense of shared sorrow extending beyond the town. The imperfect OCR yields unclear names and places, but the overall scene conveys a communal farewell.
A list of advice for local readers on supporting the editor and paper. Emphasizes delivering truthful news, avoiding printed jokes without explanation, and providing timely material. Encourages respect for the editor and constructive assistance to improve the publication for the community.
A veteran New York reporter faced dismissal after publishing a flawed article about an Edison demonstration of the first electric light. The piece alleged transformative claims and misrepresented the timeline, highlighting how advertising interests and industry push shaped early electrical engineering narratives.
A Cornell professor recalls Willard Straight telling of Chinese prisoners dancing handcuffed wrist to wrist around a flagstaff to deter escapes. Then a report from Riga describes barter in Soviet Russia with arbitrary exchange values pegged to a pood of rye, setting rye to 12 poods salt and other goods.
A Holland expedition recently sent engineers and coal miners to Spitsbergen to exploit newly acquired coal properties. The first Spitzbergen coal cargo reached Rotterdam on August 11 from the Netherisede Spitzbergen company, with freight costs still allowing lower delivered prices than competing sources.
A fragmented OCR item describes measures and heat tests with unclear context and several garbled terms. It mentions a coat program and long distance details but lacks coherent names, dates, or places to identify concrete events or entities. The readable bits hint at technical assessment or procedure but remain largely indecipherable.
Fragmentary text references Pryingee Wee Tuan and multiple garbled phrases. No coherent event, date, or identifiable entities. Unable to determine a clear news item or outcome from the readable material.
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