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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1901
Page
2
Publication details for the Pocatello Tribune show it is issued three times weekly on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. The paper is printed by PFT & WALLIN, publishers and proprietors, and is mailed as second class matter.
A Thursday meeting to plan due observance of Independence Day in Pocatello failed to attract many participants. A subsequent attempt is planned. Local wool producers report selling wool at offered prices with no consignments, signaling solid business confidence and clear, prudent expectations for profits.
The article lauds Mayor Turner and the city council as they work to raise municipal standing, improve public morality, and advance public enterprise. It emphasizes earnest efforts to elevate city leadership and community progress.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for new mothers and healthy babies. It claims strong, happy infants result from the remedy, citing a Kansas mother's experience and a physician's endorsement, describing easier labor and nourishing feeding for the nursing child.
The article notes Pocatello's position as Idaho's gateway and crossroads city, facing difficult solvable issues that must not hinder its progress. Citizens support the administration's efforts to improve conditions and strengthen the municipality's standing as one of the state's best governed and most progressive.
The supreme court rules unanimously that the legislature's act creating Clearwater County is void for omitting key words. The decision centers on a six word omission in the boundary description, with additional questions raised about a million-dollar valuation and constitutional vote requirements.
Mr. A T Ogren of R L Polk Co is in Pocatello conducting a preliminary canvass for a forthcoming Bannock county and city directory. The work will include business firms and citizens lists, officers, societies, churches, a classified directory and street index. The firm already publishes numerous city state directories from Salt Lake City and other offices and seeks local support.
An advertisement urges treatment for hemorrhoids with Tavlen's Bucksys Pie Ott claiming immediate relief. It markets bottles for 50 cents and tubes, attributed to Mrs. A. L. Cook.
A heavy frost hit Custer County with a June snowstorm and cold snap. Challis reports significant damage to vegetation, including alfalfa and wild grasses, and the fruit crop was totally destroyed, marking the coldest June frost in memory. A separate note mentions a dead junk dealer found with a hatchet in one hand and copper wire in the other at Era quartz mill. cause unclear as the mill has been idle for years. Trapp and Pierce of Pocatello reportedly expanding saloon operations to three in Pocatello and two to Blackfoot with a tent saloon at Arco along the Salmon River railroad line.
Crickets flood furrows marching in a mass that looks like a serpent and burying themselves in holes. Wagon loads are killed by covering holes with dirt. Mothers urged to watch for worm symptoms and use Whites Cream Vermifuge. Mrs. A L Cook endorses DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for a facial sore.
County Superintendent Anna Harmer announces office hours begin June 1 with details. notices warn of danger from neglecting bowels and promote DeWitt's Little Early Risers. Local drugstores carry Gallard's Horehound Syrup to prevent coughs and colds, with prices 25 and 50 cents.
Boise Statesman reports Thomas G. Lowe arrives from Ogden and finds sheep in good condition. Fifty two men under arrest for violating state sheep inspection law. Malad Bancroft and Montpelier locations cited for noncompliance shipping and inspection faults. An altercation at Blackfoot injures Thomas Foley amid hoboes versus locals. Two groups dispute blame with no clear assailant. Hailey News Miner notes crickets damaging Silver Creek and Bellevue Glena Bridge areas. farmers plan eradication. Gooding wheat crop outlook poor with pest control efforts including furrow plowing to block crickets.
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