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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1917
Page
3
The article notes South America spans 7,276,000 square miles with about 50,000,000 people. It explains colonial rule and late openness to immigration, ongoing landholding breakup, and vast untapped lands, minerals, and waterways offering immense opportunity.
A Scientific American explanation describes how wave length is measured with a wave meter. It notes the natural wave length of an aerial is four times its length, analogous to organ pipe and tuning fork notes, and that practical measurement by rule is difficult.
A light dialogue quickens with a joke about histrionic aspirations as one man aims to be an actor. The other notes a break in conversation caused by someone dropping the subject, while a remark on strikes hints at work and endurance.
A war revenue bill approved by the House Ways and Means Committee aims to raise $1.9 billion next year. It imposes a 10 percent tariff increase on all duties and adds 10 percent to items now on the free list, retroactive income tax increases, higher postal rates, and new taxes on amusements, liquor, tobacco, and inheritance. The plan doubles the normal income tax and introduces surtaxes up to 83 percent for incomes above $300,000.
A table explains exemptions for income tax, setting $2,000 for heads of families and $1,000 for unmarried individuals not head of family. The figures reflect standard deduction levels guiding taxable income computations.
The house bill outlines new taxes totaling 1.8 billion dollars with hearings to follow in the senate finance committee. Provisions cover tariff duties postal rates stock exchanges, corporate issues and bonds, deeds, life and casualty policies, spirits, tobacco, moving films, automobiles, telegraphs, and assorted consumer goods. The measure anticipates amendments and revisions as it moves through Senate consideration.
The bill details progressive normal tax rates from 100000 to 500000 and beyond, with a 0.33 percent rate on amounts over 500000. It replaces withholding rules after January 1, 1915 for incomes over 3090, imposes inheritance taxes with phased percentages, lowers exemptions, and expands rates up to 15 percent for vast estates. It doubles taxes on excess profits, raises taxes on spirits, intensifies tobacco levies, and imposes new newspaper advertising, second class postage, and theater admission taxes with specified exemptions and enforcement dates.
A wide array of Idaho items from Parma to Nampa discuss the Idaho State Sunday School convention, agricultural agent advocacy, new prohibitions on circulating certain periodicals, and a push for child labor productive work. Other notes cover grain cooperative plans, squirrel eradication campaigns, climate of fuel price checks, and local heroism in Pittsburgh.
Store prompts celebrate graduates and brides with keepsake gifts including dainty pendants necklaces rings bracelets wrist watches and wedding silver. Modest prices emphasized to ease purchasing.
A report notes how oysters were educated to produce pearls in a 50 square mile Alaskan farm, using larvae, rocks, and beds. It traces Fortymile’s placer mining start in 1888, its link to Klondike discoveries, and over 200 million dollars in gold from Klondike and Alaska Yukon camps, highlighting the Fortymile district’s 6.5 million in gold.
A Tam many leader addressed a mass meeting of Italian born voters praising Columbus and Italian heritage. The speaker, a self made man not yet fully complete, urged support for his party’s ticket with fervent admiration for the discoverer of America and a nod to immigrant roots. The scene sparked loud applause at the event noted in the Saturday Evening Post excerpt.
A clay tablet with a map of ancient Babylon found near a claim by Dr. Stephon B. Langdon of the University of Pennsylvania museum. He notes it sheds light on a Babylonian law code reference from Estuma XV about blowing a horn at village gates to alert shepherds after the grazing season. The rural villages were arranged so village diglers could spread the horn sound to all of Babylonia. The tablet likely dates to In B.C.
A pupil returns home asking how many carrots are in a bushel, prompting the mother to ask the music school about the class. The teacher clarifies the child was asked how many beats are in a measure, revealing a humorous mishearing.
A fragmented quotation emphasizes duty as an omnipresent force pursuing us. It contrasts duty done with duty violated, linking the idea to happiness and existential reflection in a poetic, archaic tone.
A brief note from Charlestin News and Courter reflects on public views of exercise and its relation to lawn care, suggesting attitudes shift when exercise is linked to outdoor, everyday routines.
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