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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1920
Page
2
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The article argues home canning is not a necessity for city households with year round access to markets, refrigeration, and transit. It notes canning may be costly and often unnecessary when profiteering is absent, urging those few who must to still do it themselves if prices rise.
The Massachusetts labor department notes a shortage of scrub women in Boston as old workers quit and new ones refuse to take their places. Women say high wages and liquor bills affect family finances, reducing female labor and keeping children in school, while a mechanical cleaning solution is hoped to be devised. The piece ends by asking if Germany is truly repentant, labeling that query as a silly season topic.
A columnist cautions Americans not to let political fervor ignore economic reality. He notes the United States must pay 6 percent interest on borrowing, while critics waste resources, comparing national budgeting to worms convening in a vegetable garden.
The United States trade commissioner announces a new American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines. The group aims to develop and protect American trade, foster relations with Orientals, and promote resources like cocoanut oil, hemp, rubber, sugar, tapioca, gums, and camphor. It stresses cooperation and mutual benefit, not exploitation, and calls for investment to raise sugar output from 300,000 to 1,000,000 tons.
Mrs O H P Belmont, a New York suffrage leader, fires a fiery appeal urging women to husband their new power by not voting and to abstain from aligning with the Democratic and Republican parties. She argues masculine rule failed to solve world problems and insists women must organize to change the political order.
June prices climbed higher than ever as the Supreme Court upheld a law, causing market fears of further drops. Analysts note the decision impacts pricing, with officials signaling cautious steps to stabilize the economy.
Senator Harding denounces persistent misrepresentation by Republicans and Democrats over woman suffrage and hopes ratification occurs before November. He credits Republicans with supporting the reform and notes ratifications by 29 GOP and 7 Democratic states, while some Democratic-led states oppose. He cites 1919 Senate votes and urges fair treatment regardless of party. A separate note mentions formation of The Liberal Party in Chicago led by Arthur Go Wray and Aten Mettupoly.
A garbled line questions who deserves credit for influencing Republicans in North Carolina and Tennessee. It notes the idea of radicalization and voting, with uncertainty about who would push the outcome and take responsibility. The fragment hints at political maneuvering without a clear event or names.
The Society of the Third Division organized today in Chicago with Capt. Harold Beacom elected president. Honorary presidents for life are Maj. Gen. J.T. Dickman and Maj. Gen. Robert L. Howze. The event marks a reunion of unit members.
Chicago, July 14. The platform adopted by the labor-farmer movement, once deemed too radical by the forty-eighters, lists nine planks. It demands Americanization, free speech rights, amnesty for political prisoners, repeal of espionage and criminal syndicalist laws, referendum and recall for federal judges, equal suffrage, withdrawal from the Versailles treaty, and U S participation reexamined.
A section outlines 9 major labor and economic demands including democratic control of industries, public ownership of utilities and resources, repeal of the Esch-Cummins railroad law, favorable farm laws, government economy to curb extravagance, taxation of war wealth, currency stabilization, federal meat packing oversight, justice for World War I soldiers, and guaranteed workers’ rights to strike with an eight to forty hour workweek.
A historical discussion questions whether the paramecium is animal or plant by examining movement respiration and chlorophyll presence. It notes a paramecium’s consumption of dead matter and eye spot light sensitivity, arguing it defies simple plant versus animal labeling.
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