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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1924
Page
4
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A critical column denounces a program urging students to solicit paper subscriptions for a commission. It questions exploitation of children, utters concern over turning schools into fundraising fronts, and cites theater solicitation as shaping improper habits. The piece calls for policy action by the Board of Education.
A fragment from school news depicts students at a dance hall shivering from a chill and a modern Romeo and Juliet romance on a park bench. The narrator references a stern observer, a “ty wome” flower and a teenage couple viewed as a modern flapper, prompting suspicions of immoral conduct.
A narrator describes arriving at a nephew’s home to find a severely judged daughter and son, aged eighteen and twenty, criticized as representatives of a troubling condition. The evening includes a girl lighting a cigarette and a memory of Sir Rodger’s widow falling ill trying to smoke a cigar, then the intoxicated son returning home and the father noting his son’s endurance of an ungraceful habit.
An encoded item discusses a predicted shift toward radio music and a near term end of phonograph use. It mentions Mat Chey and Briand Wb as figures, with unclear references to a plant and reproduction on the sieving wh Oe dearly.
Fragmentary readable phrases hint at a dated urban column or notice with scattered names and places. The garbled text includes partial names and terms, suggesting a damaged page segment with potential local notices or announcements. The core facts are unclear due to heavy OCR distortion.
The speaker notes his son followed in his footsteps in conduct while intoxicated and closes with a universal caution to youth. He quotes Spare the rod, and spoil the child, applying the adage to all ages of youth.
Special attention given women and children. Infant feeding. Office in McMahon Building, Office phone 12W Residence phone 125 Private home for maternity patients. Shoshone me tu me Idaho.
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