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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1909
Page
2
The Pocatello Tribune lists subscription rates for month and year in advance and promotes sending the Christmas edition to friends. It notes delivery every evening and instructs readers to leave 25 cents and the address at the Tribune office for the service.
A speculative article explains Venus as barren and uninhabited due to tidal friction halting its rotation. It cites Percival Lowell's authority from Flagstaff Arizona and notes perpetual darkness on one hemisphere and extreme cold, dashing romantic notions of planetary life.
An emerging union led crusade by conductors and porters against wedding rice throwing on trains in New York City. The practice lacks union backing and fears of a rice market drop accompany talk of banning old shoes and related festivities.
Dr. Carlos Mont EZuma argues that white demand for primitive Native crafts keeps Indigenous people in servile, undeveloped states. He claims government policy mislabels Natives as Yankees and fails to teach farming, while trade schools like Carlisle only arm youths to exploit elders and maintain semiservitude.
The piece argues trains should stop rice tossing by passengers as it increases porter workload and harms ears. It cites 100000 pounds wasted yearly in New York and a doctor warning after a bridegroom nearly died from rice grains lodging in an ear. The indictment of the custom is strong.
Prof. B. C. Buffum unveils a beardless behemoth bearded wheat hybrid and an ultra-fast growing alfalfa at Worland Wyoming. The grain yields 80 to 150 bushels per acre and boosts cattle nutrition while slashing corn imports across the arid west. The alfalfa promises 1 to 2.5 tons per acre with four harvests yearly, potentially multiplying farm earnings manyfold across millions of acres.
A New York prisoner accused of drankenness pleaded his case by rhyme before a magistrate and received six months on the island. The judge called the jag bad but the poetry worse. A London inmate offered a rustic verse about wine drawn from the wood, but the attempt drew costs of 10 shillings.
Ametia Robbins portraits a wayside flower as a metaphor for Geoffrey Chaucer. The verse links the flower to Chaucer's virtues and immortal rhythm, praising serenity, constancy, and simple cheer that endure beyond time.
A prose poem shows a ghastly fae in a window transforming to a beautiful flower of purity. It teaches that the ugliest shape may hold a soul of the purest mold and that blossom time comes to those who wait and work with patience. The piece quotes Emma C. Dowd.
A poetic fragment by A. C. Swinburne expresses a drowning longing to merge with the sea. The speaker pleads to be united with Mother Sea and to find a grave among its endless graves. The lines evoke waves, foam and underwater union as a form of escape and transformation.
Fifty pattern hats were priced originally from five to twelve dollars and are now available for three dollars each. Shoppers are urged to come early to choose. Address listed as Mrs. A H Joe at 211 North Main.
Standley’s plumbing show rooms on North Main Street host a Wednesday afternoon and night bazaar with a supper menu including hot chicken pie mashed potatoes corn apple and pumpkin pie coffee and Mia. Joyce of Claremont New Hampshire praises Foley’s Kidney Remedy after a yearlong kidney trouble cure. The 4 Pharmacy Ferguson poseph Pocatello and McCammon are named.
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