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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1919
Page
2
The document identifies D Harold McGrath as News Editor and Arthur Alworth as Business Manager. It notes the Twin Falls Idaho Post Office as second class mail matter and that Associated Press dispatches are exclusively allowed for republication with local news, and all rights of republication of special dispatches are reserved.
A geological survey report shows Idaho yielded 36 552 158 dollars in metals in 1918, with vast county participation and broad mineral potential. The notice extols mining and agriculture, notes declining production since 1917, and urges constructive effort free from political disruption.
A quirky reflection contrasts a philosophical earthworm and a robin. The worm rises at sunset to savor nature while awaiting the robin, who lacks refined perception yet shares a moment of nature’s beauty. The piece playful contrasts artful longing with simple avian view.
The fragment portrays Cock Robin pecking at a worm in the earth as a metaphor for virtue and modern greed. It urges staying at home as safest, yet notes robins of all degrees threaten with the worm’s lure and moral compromise attributed to Mr. Denton.
A columnist recalls passing a vacant lot at dusk where youths discuss resilience. They claim it is not disgraceful to get beat up. fleeing is the real sin. The piece argues that physical or mental beatings build character and strength for future challenges.
The Rural Engineering Division of the Department of Agriculture offers free house plans tailored to climate and family needs. Farmers can request designs by writing the division, reducing concerns about distant or costly architects.
A woman writer for a budget magazine divides every budget into two parts the necessities and the higher life. She notes that experts do not classify the higher life as a necessity, offering reassurance to readers concerned with frugal living.
London editor credits American inspiration from ice water and college health lore while doctors warn cooling drinks with alcohol don t truly cool. Headlines flag German delegates giving up hope of persuading allies to meet counter proposals as new ocean cable opens to South America and prompts learning Spanish.
AP dispatches from Tokio report growing anti-Japanese sentiment in Shanghai Hankow Nanking and Canton with fears of a broader foreign backlash. Several Japanese warships are rushed to Shanghai as Shanghai port shipping stalls amid a boycott causing heavy losses for steamship firms and exporters.
S M Boone of The Chronicle job printing received from his son Private C M Boone a unique souvenir stein mailed from Germany before ships sailed for France. The memento lists battles including Chateau Thierry St Mihiel Verdun and Argonne with the S S Koupland voyage and dates in 1918.
Lincoln Neb June 12 A crop report from the US Bureau of Crop Estimates and the state board of agriculture forecasts a record Wheat yield this year barring lodging or rust damage. Combined spring and winter wheat production is put at 81 761 000 bushels, up 10 743 000 from the prior high. Winter wheat 69 825 000 bushels and spring 11 936 000.
Belva Bradshaw petitions in district court for divorce from James W. Bradshaw alleging years of cruelty. She claims lack of funds for a necessary operation and improper use of her money that she spent on hospital needs and food. The couple has two children aged seven and five.
R. Achenbach arrested yesterday on a charge of failing to pay a board bill pleaded not guilty at arraignment in probate court. He was released on a $50 bond.
Word reached Twin Falls yesterday of the Boise arrest of Roland Lane sought here for the alleged theft of $10 from Mrs. C. W. Frederickson. Other details were not provided by the dispatch.
PD B Moorman and others filed an answer in district court yesterday to a suit brought by Jerry Bonard and others, outlining defenses and responding to claims in the civil action.
Following a stipulation by all parties the case of L A Wire against Thomas Clinton ends in a settlement. The plaintiff received seven hundred fifty dollars.
New York June 12. Ralph Waserberg, an army lieutenant from a Pittsburgh suburb, forged blank treasury warrants at Fort Leaver prison printing shop. He escaped in a major's uniform and cashed the forgeries nationwide. Secret service men reported arraignment before United States Commissioner Hitchcock. he faces forging and passing government securities charges and a hearing next week.
A plot to circulate fraudulent government war warrants printed on the Leavenworth penitentiary prison press was uncovered by authorities in Kansas City on June 12. Details indicate a scheme involving forged documents circulated to mislead officials. The discovery prompts further investigation and potential charges against those involved.
Kansas City bureau reports twelve men arrested and questioned in a New York move as counterfeiting charges are filed. Officials say another dozen arrests may come in the next days. The counterfeit operation produced about $60,000,000 in faked checks, mostly $100 notes, according to U S district attorney Fred Robertson.
Associated Press reports Lieut. Commander A C Reid flew over Paris today with Lieutenant Roget, the French aviator who previously attempted a Paris to Brazil flight.
June 12, Washington The Bulgarian minister Stephan Panaretoff issued an official denial of charges that 16 tons of medicinal opium landed in New York were looted from Serbian poppy fields. He said the opium is owned by Bulgarian merchants, bought from producers, and exported to America as part of grain payment arrangements with the United States food administration. The accusation originated from the official information bureau of the kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes.
Fifty five track and field athletes have arrived from America for the interallied games to be staged at Pershing stadium Joinville le Pont near Paris June 22 to July 6. The enlarged squad requires elimination trials to pick three men per event, likely in Colombes around June 19. The Romanian football team plans a practice match with the American Rugby squad on Sunday.
Mr and Mrs McCormick motored to Burley yesterday for a short business trip. Mrs McCormick is leaving next week for Evanston Illinois where she will spend the remainder of the summer.
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