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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1926
Page
4
The Tribune calls Mayor Ross to share details on proposed water system improvements and the drilling of a well south of town. It questions a possible $44,000 spend without public disclosure and urges transparency to avoid a summer water shortage.
A historic Pocatello initiative to bring a central Idaho smelter returns as two rich Livington and Red Bird mines in Custer county boost local ore output. Proponents argue shipping ore through Pocatello saves freight and spurs industrial growth, urging immediate action to keep the city atop state industry.
The article argues for constructive legislation to stabilize agriculture amid advancing measures like the McNary bill. Factional lines and mutual stalemate threaten farm relief, with many bills pending and members eager to adjourn.
A comic strip captioned The Dot Cartoonist features a dialogue where a character criticizes loafing and questions his home life. The exchange hints at domestic life with a wife who humorously critiques the husband’s work habits while a prompt to draw straight lines between the dots suggests a playful art instruction.
Today marks anniversaries for Mme. Johanna Gadski born Prussia 64 years ago Lieut. Gen. Sir Charles Carmichael Monro born 66 years ago and Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus born Belleville Illinois 76 years ago. Also notes that tarantulas in Australia yield filament used for balloon thread with eight strands forming a strong light cord.
Today marks Pioneer day in Idaho and the Magna Carta anniversary while anniversaries include Arkansas admission to the Union and the British recapture of Montreal 150 years past. Other items mention a federal income tax due date, air mail link Cleveland to Pittsburgh, and primary elections in New Jersey.
Rt Rev Henry St George Tucker, former bishop of Kioto Japan, helped famine relief during northern Japan crop failures. He later became ecoadjutor bishop of Virginia and was part of a father son bishops pair in the American house of bishops. The text ends with a long numeral sequence about alphabet letters.
The fertile valleys of Oregon help supply American tables via the tin can industry. Julia Schmidt, a weak canning worker in Salem, Oregon, credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with restoring her health and strength after years of fatigue and illness.
Iowa Republicans backed Brookhart in a local Iowa contest with Democrats assisting. Observers called the race largely local and not a referendum on the president. The piece notes farm wealth and political indifference to a single election and mentions unrelated items about powder limits and an earthquake annunciator in California.
Dotty meets Billy Shrike a butcher-bird with a hooked bill who explains he kills only for food and saves extra prey for bad weather. He shows his thorn-tree home filled with insects and small prey, insisting he is a helpful farmer’s friend, not wicked. Dotty hurries home to tell her mother.
The piece advises men and women to choose modest, flattering summer outfits and avoid extreme white one piece dresses for thin figures or bright two tone styles for the fuller figure. It promotes beige frocks with quiet shades and two tone two piece outfits.
A sequence of anniversaries notes events from 1843 Houston proclamation ending hostilities with Mexico to 1916 Democratic nomination of Wilson and Marshall. Other items mark Deseret News ending 1850, Harrow’s tercentenary, Grand Army encampment in 1881, Grant at Army of the Potomac reunion, William II becoming emperor, and the 1904 Gen eral Slocum disaster in New York.
One year has passed since Julius Kruttchnitt former executive head of the Southern Pacific company died in New York City.
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