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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1925
Page
4
The piece argues eight hours work sleep and play as a balanced program while warning that excessive holidays diminish productivity. Senator Smoot calls the trend holiday mad as national and state observances multiply and idle days erode industry morale, yet occasional breaks and Sundays might sustain vitality.
Senator Borah of Idaho denounces joining the world court as a back door into the league of nations. He argues the court is bound by sections of the league and subservient to it, lacking independence. He warns American voters favoring nonentry and cites Republican pledges and anti pro league sentiment.
A 1776 style defense resists moving toward a united Europe via a league or world court. The author argues for maintaining national sovereignty, likening foreign courts to lesser jurisdictions and citing constitutional spirit as justification.
Young La Follette widens critique of President Coolidge and party managers over what he calls a frameup in Longworths speaker selection. The piece mocks his boldness and lack of proven ability, describing his arguments as crude and schoolboyish.
United States generates and uses over half of global electricity. This vast output shapes foreign views of Americans as energetic and dynamic, including wealthy individuals nicknamed sparkers. The text notes this energy also underpins strong connections with the old world.
The remark notes a trend where colleges function as training grounds for professional football organizations, suggesting a shift in the college game toward supplying ready players and systems for the pros.
Fragmentary exclamation about enthusiasm for a 100 percent idea, urging immediate operation and bold personal reactions upon returning home. Contains playful slang and garbled phrasing with no clear local events or names.
A message argues that Indian welfare has improved under federal oversight but proposes removing the federal Indian bureau from its centralized role. It calls for placing Indians under state control, aligning schooling property rights and taxation with state laws, while suggesting federal government act as a cooperative partner.
An opinion piece questions the ethics of large endowments from tobacco and other magnates to universities, noting past tobacco gifts to North Carolina schools and suggesting future gifts from brewing firms. It argues such philanthropy supports education despite critics and unfamiliar concerns.
The text notes that one dollar bills constitute half of all paper currency, with two dollar bills unpopular and higher denominations common. It adds gold is largely unused while silver remains used for small change, and the public trusts paper money backed by gold, though loose gold can always be disposed of without trouble.
In Congress many silver-tongued speakers may adopt a policy of golden silence for a period, signaling a strategic pause amid developing situations.
A rhetorical note compares the value of wives to a hypothetical salary of seventeen billion dollars yearly and more if considering true partnership in life. It emphasizes that the quality of relation outweighs any financial estimate and advises mindful shopping.
In the Feb 23 1895 Tribune item the Idaho senatorial contest remained unresolved with Sweet 19 Shoup 20 and Claggett 15. Other notes include a clerical death in Missouri, a Baker-Scott election ruling in Bannock county, a grip epidemic in Pocatello, and city business updates.
Pocatello public schools will close one week from next Friday due to lack of funds, with a plan to raise money by subscription for one more month. A teachers’ fund may cut salaries. principal from 140 to 100 a month, others from 75 to 60 and 65 to 50 respectively, as a motion to keep schools open continues.
Reports from Idaho towns describe a lunar rainbow seen from a vessel on the Isthmus to San Francisco, a 23 degree below zero reading at Salubria, a 27 inch ice drift on the Little Weiser, and various social notes.
The list recalls events and births from 1820 to 1992 including John Floyd proposing the Oregon question, Gettysburg commander Romeyn Aurrea, Otto Dressel the composer, Otto Young of the Chicago store, Archbishop Seghers, Senator Alcorn, and Marconi’s wireless message from Cape Breton to Cornwall.
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