Wallace Miner enters at Wallace Idaho Post Office
The Wallace Miner is listed as second class mail matter in Wallace Idaho.
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Newspaper
Wallace Miner
Location
Wallace, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1922
Page
2
The Wallace Miner is listed as second class mail matter in Wallace Idaho.
The piece extols Republicans for wartime and postwar care for disabled veterans. It highlights veteran benefits and legislation, noting substantial World War I expenditures and preferences in government employment, tax exemptions, and homestead concessions as acknowledgments of veterans’ service.
The Senate moves to send a soldier bonus measure to President Harding, while the House shows readiness to back any plan promising to pacify veterans. Republicans cite the party platform that pledged justice for World War I soldiers, not cash bonuses, and warn that cash payments would burden taxpayers and degrade military service. The debate touches hospital funding, naval budgets, and historical pension practices.
The piece surveys how despite Volstead and the 18th Amendment courts still try drunks. It notes degrees of drunkenness, lacks clear legal lines to distinguish mere intoxication from public nuisance, and cites a Los Angeles judge: a drunk man is not his normal self under liquor. It recalls a barroom rhyme defining true drunkenness.
Congressman Burton L. French, a subcommittee member who helped draft the naval appropriation bill, delivered a leading defense in the house. He spoke for over an hour amid interruptions, drawing standing applause from members and visitors at the end.
Editorial argues that harsher measures against bootleggers and drug pushers should include expelling non citizens who violate prohibitions. It contends that sending offenders back to their homeland is preferable to prison and criticizes perceived leniency toward aliens profiting from illegal sales.
The piece recounts reporter Clarence Dresser’s audacious clash with William H. Vanderbilt over an interview in a private railcar. Vanderbilt condemned the intrusion with the line The public be damned, a quote that helped derail Dresser’s career yet boosted newspaper notoriety and sensational coverage of the railroad industry. The anecdote, framed as pitiless truth about the famous phrase, questions how one might respond if a careless remark became tomorrow’s hot headline.
Idaho residents face unemployment as $1,424,000 in federal forest funds will finance road and highway work across the state. Commissioner William J. Hall hails the conference with the forest service and US bureau of public roads, noting that over 85 percent of costs are federal and the program will boost mileage and employment without adding local tax burdens.
A fragmentary Idaho forest shingle poem warns about fire risk from discarded matches. It depicts a man lighting a seegar, dropping a match, and a grass fire spreading across a patch, with melted pants buttons noted as evidence of the careless act.
Minneapolis Journal notes that a large majority supports deporting alien bootleggers and dope vendors from Washington. Opponents warn the law would hinder convictions, while supporters argue it should be easier to convict offenders and remove them to their native lands.
Leadville notes provoke debate over annual mining assessment delays amid wartime labor shortages. Senator Stanfield proposes extending the current assessment window to June 30 1924, citing requests from claim owners who cannot afford the costs. Opponents warn idle ground harms districts and warn against pauper’s oath. The British plan to place a school within reach of every child in Palestine.
A reflective poem in which the speaker renounces haste and accepts time governed by destiny. The verses affirm that what is truly theirs will come, as friends, fortune, and rewards align with inner sowing. Nature imagery reinforces the law of equal flow toward the soul’s delights.
Report details extensive shaft sinking at the Amazon Dixie property toward the 1500 level. With a 500 foot planned crosscut to the ore body, officials project completion in about two months and predict June news of the ore body, urging prompt assessment remittance to speed development.
A Syracuse Post Standard column argues against unlimited paper money, citing historical failures in France, Bryan's 1896 policy and current European experiments. It praises sound finance and warns that expanding credit through printing presses harms economies, echoing Ford’s controversial view as misinformed and dangerous.
An Akron wagon maker reports sales rising beyond any two-month period in five years. Wagons have sold across nearly all states with orders growing, and normal production is expected within a month.
The report details the Buckeye claim's machinery issues a 10-horse boiler for a 15-horse engine the Dodge mill replacement by a two-stamp mill and ongoing development across five patented Buckeye Roy claims with nine adits iron overlays and a new Tin Lix aie highway linking mine to Dream gulch revealing mining challenges profits and future prospects.
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