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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1919
Page
2
A magazine piece uses a child’s tears over losing her place in corn as a metaphor for adults fearing unemployment. It argues job insecurity drives mediocrity and that the real work lies elsewhere, beyond the immediate position or salary.
The verse urges public memory of soldiers who died for the nation, lamenting political wrangling that obscures the debt owed to the dead. It asks if, in the eyes of the living, their names and sacrifice are truly honored or if peace remains unfulfilled.
The article argues that egg prices fell as demand dropped across the country and cites a Lincoln Nebraska boycott that pushed fresh eggs from 85 cents to 55 cents in three days. It suggests ordinary shoppers steering purchases to season and budgets acts as a natural price regulator.
The Truthful Advertiser column cites a curious 440 lemon roadster ad inviting buyers to tinker and wait for parts. It argues caveat emptor fading, notes cooperation over exploitation, and imagines a learner or cash buyer turning the lemons into gold. The piece ends with a flippant wish that the lemons become valuable.
A Brockton Massachusetts editorial reflects on Theodore Roosevelt as a great preacher of common life truths. It urges Americans to oppose tyranny by any faction, champion rule of the many with courage, justice, and common sense, and to save money as a New Year restraint.
The Associated Press reports that formal stage reached in peace treaty compromises as Senator McNary of Oregon and Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska discussed reservations with focus on article 10 Shantung and league voting power. Swanson attended part of talks with foreign relations committee. More talks expected as Congress reconvenes after holidays.
A partial note indicates a Senate caucus set for January 1945 to decide the contest between Senators Hitchcock and Underwood of Alabama for the Democratic leadership. The fragment suggests a pivotal party decision in the upper chamber.
Four officers of mining companies were fined in Hartford justice court for refusing to allow state mine inspector Thomas Shaw access to the mines. Five officials of Central Coal and Coke were fined last night in Huntington for the same reason and have appealed. Governor Brough said he will act only after consulting the attorney general amid the closures and the 700 miners idle.
A love letter from San Francisco artist Harry Heine to fiancée Miss Cadogan, written two weeks before he fell in action in France, was admitted to probate as a holograph will. Heine expressed in the letter that a property be left to Miss Cadogan.
An Associated Press report from Oakland California states the coroner’s office believes a headless body found in the hills likely lay undiscovered for over two years. It is not the body of J A Beritzhoff, a mining man, as previously supposed.
A man sold a suit to someone believed connected to a body recovered in the hills as part of efforts to identify the deceased. The case centers on whether the clothing transfer helps establish who the victim is and what it reveals about the investigation.
San Francisco Calif December 30 The war department orders Lieut Gun Hunter Liggett to reorganize the Western department on the basis of an army corps ready for service in the field The new arrangement becomes effective January 15 In the Pacific coast area the commanding staff will be centrally located to move troops guns and equipment quickly and the Western department will be controlled in lines of command akin to American forces in France
New York December 30 The National College Athletic Association convention unanimously recommended the appointment of a boxing committee. Dr. R. T McKenzie of the University of Pennsylvania urged enlarging the committee to add boxing to the physical curriculum and place it among intercollegiate activities.
Dec. 30 United States Senator Hiram Johnson of California filed with the secretary of state his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination He will seek independent endorsement at the South Dakota primary in March.
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