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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1920
Page
3
Rail activity reports clear weather and mixed traffic across districts. Personnel movements include engineers, clerks, and a string of inspectors. shifts announce a rumored wage rise denied by Short Line officials. Notices list new appointments and temporary vacancies in the Utah and Idaho divisions with filing deadlines.
Louis T. Brandt a conductor on a ccal lies seriously injured at Short Line emergency hospital after falling from a train, striking his back on a rail. Few details are known as he is in no condition to speak. Weather reports show clear skies with light west winds and temperatures from 40 to 84 in the region. Two special trains passed through Pocatello toward Yellowstone Park, Kiwanis Club from Portland and Mrs. Elliott's party from the east. The first regular park passenger train of the season ran in three sections yesterday. Conductor W. A. Houser has resumed his run at Shoshone after a Lava Hot Springs vacation. A J Nelson left for Minidoka to take a brakeman assignment. Superintendent Manson of the Idaho division.
George W. Goodhart recounts aiding the burial of a seven person emigrant family killed by Indians on Sublet road east of Spring Creek. The grave near Soda Mound is marked by four soda rocks and may be the first white graves in Fairview cemetery. He urges a town monument and subscription.
The Grand Army of the Republic selects Indianapolis Indiana as the site for its annual encampment this year replacing Atlantic City. The change stems from state funding shortfalls in New Jersey and calendar adjustments shift the event to the week of September 19.
In the Yaqui river district of Sonora farmers are diversifying from garbanzo to crops like wheat rice and corn. Wheat cultivation is still experimental but aims to provide a profitable yield and enable crop rotation.Export growth already favors rice and corn in the Yaqui region.
George Randolph Chester and Mrs. Chester are mid novel writing for The Son of Wallingford to be filmed by Vitagraph while the story runs in a leading magazine. The work is not a sequel to Chester’s earlier Wallingford stories.
W. O. McGeehan argues in The American Legion Weekly that the army navy and civilian board seeks new heavyweight material as Dempsey’s successor. He critiques modern boxing for short bouts and no decisions, predicts reform and return to real champions when states lift restrictive rules.
Wausau Wisconsin June 21 AP socialist party state convention adopts fourteen points platform calling for impeachment of President Wilson and also Attorney General Palmer and Postmaster General Burleson. Victor Berger reads platform backing international Socialism and blaming big business for the war. Wm Coleman of Milwaukee named governor candidate and Frank J Webster to run for US senator.
Salt Lake City hosts the National Tax Association annual meeting September 6 to 11 with focus on mine taxation and itinerant livestock taxation. Herbert Hoover may speak for the American Mining Congress and Harvard’s Julius J Bullock will present. William Duncan, star of Vitagraph serials, fulfilled a boyhood pledge by moving his Ohio-born parents to California and gifting them a home and autos.
The article notes total motor vehicles around seven million with 660 thousand commercial units. Passenger cars greatly outnumber motor trucks by more than ten to one. It highlights about 75 thousand trucks with pneumatic tires and 275 thousand on solid tires, indicating evolving tire choices.
More than 8 000 pipe organs and theatre orchestras in as many motion picture theatres across the United States and Canada will play the Mendelssohn wedding march at 4 PM Friday June 18 to celebrate the marriage of Richard Barthelmess prominent film star and his bride Miss Mary Hay formerly of the Zeigfeld Nine Oclock Revue.
J C Hanson ticket agent in Pocatello Idaho with Spencer General Passenger and Ticket at Salt Lake City Utah listed in the record.
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