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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1920
Page
9
Railroad dispatchers distribute bronze World War I service medals to Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen members across Idaho. Dispatchers and staff, including Supt. Brooks and Manson, coordinate travel of short and long distance trains for Shrine convention and Yellowstone specials.
The report surveys worker earnings and conditions from Vienna to Sheffield, noting silk and cutlery trades, railway jobs, and textile mills. It cites rising wages, shifts, strikes, and new factories, including a Chicago hotel plan, U S pace of rail work, and Austria Hungary to Czech shifts, with data on productivity and hours.
The Travellers' Protective Association assigns J C Shelmer as Yellowstone agent and W O Shelton as Trade agent, both for the summer season. A new Short Line timetable takes effect June 20 with No 30 arriving earlier to Pocatello and No 34 arriving later to connect with No 4. Also: Mrs Warren Baxter underwent surgery. General Superintendent Knickerbocker left on No 5 for an inspection trip. The Lima Local Safety Committee met June 2, reporting May safety talks and 77 people addressed on inflammable materials handling. next meeting is July 2 at the Lima club house with listed attendees.
London reports the Bank of England will be rebuilt replacing the old one-story “Old Lady of Threadneedle Street” with a modern, larger structure. For 25 years governors and directors debated this, driven by wartime needs and the growth of clerks and new departments across six outside branches in London. Established in 1691, it stands as Europe’s oldest national bank.
The Bank of England, central to Britain’s finances for over 200 years, with parts dating from 1732 to 1788, occupies four acres of prime London real estate. It withstood the 1780 Lord George Gordon riots with soldiers and clerks on the walls, and guarded nightly since then. A 1826 near-bankruptcy avoidance is noted, while damaged windows were solidified with granite blocks to preserve the façade.
In Cleveland June 11 Prof William H Hulme of Western Reserve University traces the word booze from its early form bowse through evolving spellings. He argues the term carries a lengthy linguistic lineage longer than many royal lineages and has long been treated as an etymological outlaw.
Professor Hulwe explains the evolution of beouse bowse and booze from middle English roots. He notes bowse meaning to drink to excess in 1300, and by 1600 it became slang. beusing appears in 1529 and beuser in 1611.
Dr Maud Muller of Portland Oregon renowned for pediatric dentistry was chosen as a national honor delegate to New York City to represent her profession and community.
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