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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1920
Page
9
Mr Davis of Gordon-Davis Auto Co urges extra care on slick streets to prevent accidents. Pedestrians also warned to cross only at intersections and to watch for moving cars. Emphasis on gradual braking, not sudden stops, and to avoid clutch use while braking in slippery conditions.
The user asks about a statement claiming the car will inevitably skid on a wet pavement. No event or source is provided. The fragment seems evidence of a general caution rather than a specific report. Further context is needed to produce a news card.
Two family members died and three others were hospitalized after eating olives triggering a strange illness. Marie Daldene and her 1 year old son Dominique lost sight and suffocated as breathing weakened. A medical examiner reported six recent Detroit deaths from the same poisoning pattern.
Houston January 15 Republicans of Texas worry about stronger state and national election effort. The state executive committee meeting expressed plans to raise a campaign fund of 500000, with most money to be spent in Texas.
Washington reports treasury receipts rose nearly 5000000 over 1918 with ordinary receipts at 464,608,852.46 and disbursements at 15,365,741. The total money stock ended at 7,518,789,000, an increase of 77,716,706. Currency in circulation climbed by 386,602,549 to 5,760,029,973.
Washington report notes War Risk Insurance Bureau earnings from premiums paid by soldiers sailors and Marines. The release states premiums equaled more than 64 in the cited units, reflecting wartime policy activity and financial impact on service members.
A scrambled excerpt references soldiers families and an appropriations line with amounts such as 126,183 and 43,798,000. The text is incomplete but indicates government insurance or support allocations tied to military families and appropriations. No clear names, dates, or organizations are fully readable.
A historical notice reports surplus war stocks sold at eighty percent of value. The document lists totals and categories, noting wool stock valued at about 201 million and other items totaling 44.54 million, with larger transfers to other departments and receipts of larger items.
Figures from the war show American air losses in Europe include 208 killed in combat 145 wounded in action 18 injured in accident and 25 missing or interned.
Danville reader Martin Schledorn recently returned from overseas shot a big bird he mistook for a pheasant. The 42 inch wingspan, brown mottled back, cream breast and curved beak perplex local hunters who call it an unusually large hen hawk found in a swale on Ossiam hills.
The United States Lighthouse Service now maintains aids to navigation along all U S coastlines under federal jurisdiction except Panama and the Philippines. The agency oversees about 4 700 statute miles of coastline including interior river channels, with the Army managing those latter coasts.
Washington reports that by the last week of December the army had shifted to the United States Shipping Board and navy vessels totaling 3,964,260 tons. Most of the shipping was used by the War Department for overseas service and then returned to the Shipping Board for commercial use.
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