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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1920
Page
9
Buhl city council selected Jack C. Hutchinson of San Diego to lead the fire department at a salary of 150 dollars a month with quarters. Four firefighters will be on duty at all times and four punch clocks to protect merchants from fire and theft. The night marshal must punch clocks hourly.
Berlin April 10 The Freiheit says Major General Baron von Luettwitz a key figure in the recent Berlin revolt is near Franzburg in Stralsund district Pomerania He is alleged by papers to be ready for a new revolution while a colleague is said to be moving through the country organizing another coup.
Chicago police searched for the meanest thieves who stole 123000 bibles valued at 37500 dollars from the Prison Bible Society. The bibles were loaded into a moving van and disappeared.
Reports from Aix la Chapelle relay rumors of Soviet republics proclaimed in Bitterfeld and Magdeburg, about 75 and 80 miles southwest of Berlin, stirring cautious intrigue amid war news.
Compiegne April 10 A P German cattle shipments into France commenced under the Versailles treaty terms. The article notes this early stage of post war exchanges as authorities implement provisions allowing livestock movement between states.
Lincoln, Neb. voters may approve a constitutional provision at a special election on September 21 creating an industrial court to settle employer employee disputes in businesses of public interest. The measure also gives the industrial commission power to enforce laws against unfair practices and unconscionable gains, with appeals to the state supreme court.
Chicago reports that the term Yankee arose from the Chinese phrase Yang-jung via East India, gradually corrupted to Yang-Gee, according to Teh Yi Haleh, a labor leader who arrived to establish relations with the American Federation of Labor. He claims Yang-Gee means You are a young foreigner and that New Englanders were first labeled by English or Dutch sailors who learned the phrase abroad.
Lewiston Idaho merchant AO Bauman plans a 650 mile canoe trip this summer. He will travel from Lewiston to Pasco Washington on the Snake River then down the Columbia to Portland Oregon, as stated in a letter received by the chamber of commerce.
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