Idaho State News highlights and oddities from the Payette area
Idaho state news reports sale arrangements near Payette Lake by the state land board and a fare grant to Boise Railway by the utility commission. It covers discharges from France, mistaken KIA reports, national Achievement pins, county bond plans, a Pocatello death, farm pest control, rodent suppression gains, labor wage debates, tuberculosis testing, health campaigns, a Red Cross reception, school consolidation debates, and a drowning accident near Hollis with a local legislative aide hiring in Boise.
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Payette Lake
State Land Board
Boise Railway Company
Public
Utiilties Commission
de Frugoli
France
Briegoll
Belleau Wood
Thirth
Stir
Bonneville Reutity
Accuraiig
Forauer
Abe Terry
Pocatelly
Terry
Hueteen
Male
W. E. Crouch
Iktho
Tdaho
Boise
State Board of Equilization
Western Retail Lumbermen
K. B. Stphens
Nampa
State Hort Cultural Board
Poentello
Rel Cross
Soldier Boys
ePechnical Institute
Board of Education
Albion Normidil
Technical Institute
Traho
Americat Red Cross
Aelstern
Hollis
Esther Malingren
Henry Malmgren
Pat Welker
Cambridge
House of Representatives
Literary Farmer muses on craft and failures in prose
In the Buffalo Express the Literary Farmer questions what a literary man can do beyond writing clever pieces. He suggests success requires clear, practical cinema or instruction, else one ends up chronicling personal missteps.
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Cin Weite
Peopie
Probe Into War Authorship Aims to Fix Guilt and Penalties
Secretary of State Robert Lansing was unanimously elected president of the war responsibility committee which met February 3 at the foreign office. The French member Captain Andre Tardien said the group would first establish guilt for premeditated violations of treaties and international law, then define penalties. The commission agreed to push deliberations quickly.
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Paris
Robert Lansing
Amercan
Wis
Committee On
Foreign Office
Lansing
Andre Tardien
Secretary Lansing
Commission On
Society of Nations
Agreement on oil leasing bill reached by Congress
Washington reports that after months of deliberation house and senate conferees reached a final agreement on the oil leasing bill. It opens more than 50 000 000 acres of government owned oil gas coal phosphate and sodium lands in western states and Alaska to development under a leasing system with a royalty not less than one eighth of the gross value of production for oil and gas.
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Washington
House
Senate
Ander
Alaska
Treason Lifts Its Head in Senate Critique
Washington reports senator Thomas of Unorade, a Democrat, decried a meeting praising the Russian soviet government. He said a powerful organization is at work to overthrow the American government and that a house member was conspicuous at the event, though he could not name him due to senate rules.
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Washington
Thomas
Unorade
Senate
House
Unemployment Crisis Shuttered Berlin Industries Hit by Strikes
Hordes of idle menace haunt Berlin as Amsterdam Berlin faces its greatest unemployment in history. The government contemplates compulsory employment while about 150,000 jobless men and women resist. Most industries and stores remain tied up by strikes.
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Gary
Indiana
Berlin
Amsterdam
Bombardment and Disorder Report From Petrograd
Finnish papers quote Kronstadt artillery striking Petrograd with casualties. Serious disorders are reported in Petrograd as the Russian capital endures bombardment and unrest intensifies.
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Stockholm
Petrograd
Kronstadt
President Addresses French Deputies in Paris Chamber
Paris President Wilson spoke Monday evening to the chamber of deputies with President Poincare and leaders present plus many cabinet officials. The address drew a large turnout from both houses and their presidencies.
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Paris
Wilson
Chamber of Deputies
Poincare
Chamber
Senate
Western Men Coming Home Washington Fortieth Division
The war department announced Monday that most of the Fortieth division including nearly all infantry units has been assigned to an early convoy home. The division includes national guardsmen from California Nevada Utah Colorado Arizona and New Mexico.
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Washington
Fortieth
War Department
California
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
Wheat Price Fix Proposed at 226 Per Bushel for 1919 Crop
Rain dealers appeared before the House Agricultural Committee proposing the government pay the guarantee price of 226 dollars a bushel for the 1919 wheat crop and sell at the free market price to consumers, estimated around 1.25 dollars per bushel.
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Washington
House Agricultural Committee
Governent
Hines Favors Federal Control of Railways
Washington. Director General Hines testified before the senate interstate commerce committee that he did not believe in government ownership but favored organizing a few large railway companies under close government supervision.
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Hines
Washington
General Hines
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Milway
Shipment of 25,000 Tons Food to Czecho-Slovaks
Food relief updates report a 25,000 ton shipment from Trieste to Prague for the Czecho-Slovaks via the American Relief Administration. The American Red Cross funds a monument on Islay Scotland to honor 170 American soldiers buried there.
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Food Administration
American Relief Administration
Scotland
Washington
Islay
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Gary Motor Trucks
Northwest
Portland
Gary Coast Agency
Gary Motor
Gary Trucks
Broadway
Oregon
The
Idaho
Venethin Hotel
War
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