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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1922
Page
4
A reflective verse portrays a dreamer seeking ease and calm, yet finding that dreams do not provide daily bread. The speaker laments idle wealth and a table spread with visions, contrasting aspiration with harsh everyday need.
A satirical report notes bees in Clatsop County producing moonshine honey from discarded mash. It imagines enforcement responses, labeling, and potential legal action while joking about bees resisting Prohibition with tipsy behavior and possible honey products.
President Harding has sent to Congress an estimate for a deficiency appropriation exceeding 28 million dollars to refund income taxes illegally collected. The issue stems from a Wilson era decision, forcing Republicans to pay back funds despite budget tightening.
The loan contract provides 100 million dollars to Jugo Slavia with 30 million available immediately and the rest as needed by the government. The piece argues foreign credits flow from American funds and notes banking is a profit driven business like any other industry.
Dr. John M. Coulter, chosen to head a foundation to advance plant science, has become a leading figure in American botany. Born in China to American parents, he studied in Indiana and taught at Hanover and Nhash Colleges before serving as president of Lake Forest University and later leading the botany department at the University of Chicago. His writings on plant life are widely used as standard texts.
The day features Corpus Christi rites in many places plus national remembrance of the General Slocum disaster anniversary. Other items include the centenary birth of Edward Bissell Hunt and international court deliberations at The Hague. Local labor and civic meetings also appear in Louisville and Montreal amid civic tensions in Sacramento.
Willy Bluebottle Fly moves into bushes by the road and tells neighbors grand tales of travel, sparking envy and discontent among meadow folk. Mrs Treetoad, Caterpillar, and Spider weigh in as Robin Redbreast watches a growing ache for wings and change.
In a winter hotel Helen and Warren hurry to dinner from a high society room. She loses an underskirt, borrows a lace skirt from a stranger, and endures exposure as Warren scorns delays. They seat near Thompson's sister under scrutiny from a rude onlooker as tensions rise.
A collection of quirky notes hints at speed of speech 296 words per minute. Tanners suffer little lung trouble and many British towns have U S. namesakes. Violin lessons cost eight cents in a London school. Dome painting needs thousand gallons of paint in Washington. Australia leads in public worship per capita. Cossacks hatch eggs in even numbers. Waterspouts spin at six miles per minute. Elephants collect in Hindu temples. Derby winner induces tail-hair souvenirs. Columbus names number in U S with Columbias and Columbianas. Elastic volcanic grass used as furniture springs. Petroleum workers face few sore throats and diphtheria.
The Pocatello Tribune will carry political announcements for all candidates under appropriate headings with fees of $8 for county candidates and $15 for state or district candidates. The paper offers candidate cards and materials for placards and posters and solicits campaign business.
Justice of the Peach E G Houde runs for re election as justice of the peace in the Pocatello precinct on the Republican ticket. He faces voters at the August 1 primary.
In a brisk political note, A T Marshall is described as a peace candidate on the ticket for the upcoming Pocatello primary inviting voter support. The fragment hints at a hopeful bid with unspecified opponents and agendas.
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