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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1908
Page
2
Entry at the Pocatello post office indicates mail transmission priority and second class status for a notice or publication. The fragment confirms the mailing classification and local postal handling details.
An unsigned anonymous broadside titled Knock, Dam You, Knock asserts many knockers in Pocatello and predicts sewer bonds will fail. It links water questions to the Citizens party, implying council members and possibly the mayor are responsible, though authorship remains unknown.
Spokane’s chief of police seized a large batch of obscene postcard cards and arrested the dealer. The piece urges similar action in Pocatello and cites Spokane’s ordinance banning obscene prints with fines from ten to one hundred dollars. It urges destruction of offending cards and targets nickle-in-the-slot machines in saloons as well.
Governor Hughes vetoes a bill making October 12 a legal Columbus day. Readers and newspapers split on whether creating a holiday honors or insults the great explorer, with many papers defending the governor’s action and arguing memorial observances reflect national memory.
The Express argues against creating a new holiday to honor a man citing crowded holiday dates and potential harm to business. It contends a holiday should honor the person and be observed with memory, not as a generic or frivolous observance.
The Republican national convention in Chicago opened at noon with strong expectations that Taft will secure the nomination on the first ballot, echoing eight previous first ballot or acclamation successes in the party’s history. The record shows thirteen conventions, five contested races, and notable leads by Blaine Garfield Sherman Hayes and Lincoln in earlier years.
The Deseret News warns young people to consult parents on marriage. It says inexperienced youths often misjudge partners and honor for parents benefits children. It criticizes officiants who marry under unusual or suspicious circumstances and urges careful scrutiny of age and other factors.
The passage urges that marriages be treated as sacred covenants made after careful thought and prayer. It cites the Wise man on he who refuseth instruction despises his own soul as an enduring truth guiding personal conduct and remedy for divorce issues.
Consul George Nicolas Ifft of Annaberg reports Berlin 1906 income tax figures. Of 1,125,000 assessable persons, 542,288 earned under 714 dollars yearly, only 58,611 above that. Nearly half earned less than 214 dollars, with many taxed through deductions and allowances.
An English inventor claims to have created an iceless refrigerator car that could revolutionize cold storage shipping. He argues that eliminating ice avoids delays from icing stations and reduces losses from improper icing, addressing a long standing problem in rail freight refrigeration.
An English inventor claims a novel ammonia based system for railway cars that cools interiors automatically. A compressor, condenser on top, and evaporators at intervals keep perishable freight at set temperatures, driven by the car axle gear. If successful, shipping perishables becomes vastly easier.
Delinquent stock for assessment No. 23 on February 1908 will be sold at public auction on July 1 1908 at 8 p.m. in the office of the company in Pocatello Idaho. Amounts due per shareholder and certificate numbers listed. sale to pay delinquent assessments and costs. Secretary W M Odell signs.
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