Proposed statue for Senator W. B. Heyburn in Idaho
The Heyburn statue plan moves from Shoshone County to a statewide effort with a public subscription. Supporters cite Heyburn’s Idaho contributions from 1884 as a miner lawyer and senator, urging a prominent placement in the capitol grounds and a rostrum of national pride.
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Senator W. B. Heyburn
W. B. Heyburn
Capitol
Boise
Shoshone County
Senator Heyburn
Idaho
Prichard Creek
Leadville
Heyburn
Washington
Disloyalty in Public School Text Books
Education week in Boise sparked a heated clash over Hesse public school instruction, with the superintendent and principal defending the system and critics prevailing in reports. Albert H. Conner called attention to dangerous textbooks, urging truthful and patriotic content in Idaho schools.
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Boise
Hesse
Albert H. Conner
Conner
Progressives oppose Butler Supreme Court confirmation
Progressive groups challenge the nomination of Pierce Butler to the supreme bench. Senate judiciary committee hearings follow formal charges raised by Senator-elect Shipstead of Minnesota. Critics label Butler a corporation lawyer and question his fitness for the court.
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Corporation
Butler
LaFollette
Congress
Supreme Court
Gomper
Supreme Bench
Minnesota
Httle
Pierce Butler
Harding
Duluth News-Tribune
Progressive Blue
Judiciary Committee of the
Senate
Shipstead
United States and Armenian Mandate Debate
The United States wisely declined to join the league of nations or accept Armenia’s mandate. Proponents warned of costly wars and distant commitments, with opponents urging restraint to protect American interests and avoid entangling alliances.
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United States
League of Nations
Armenia
America
Kansas City Times
Europe
Asia Minor
Greece
Questioning Entanglements and Sacrifice in Wartime Debate
The speaker argues the nation should have avoided a Fourth Crusade style war and another bond issue. He questions whether Americans would have supported sending sons and tax funding to a quarrel they did not create or have real interest in, praising senators who kept America from entanglements.
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Britain
League
Anatolia
America
Jones’ Lorner Grocery
Bill Smith
Ford
United States
Anaconda Company
Cavilier
Nazarene
My Son, Americanism Never Needs to Mask
A political cartoon this week criticizes the Ku Klux Klan by showing a masked Klan member with a banner reading 100 per cent Americanism. Uncle Sam tells him Americanism never needs a mask, arguing the Klan’s secrecy and terror undermine liberty and rights in a free nation.
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The
Daily Press
Uncle Sam
Ku Klux Klan
Intelligent Road Building Urges Costly Caution on Pacific Coasts Highways
A report by the Industrial News Bureau warns Western states may spend ten million annually for 19 years totaling a billion in principal plus interest. It calls for test sections, shock absorbing road design, and maintenance cost scrutiny to avoid public liability and political influence, urging governors to keep road programs businesslike and focused on value.
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Industrial News Bureau
Pacific Coast
Gossip Dies If Words Stay Inside Doors at Chelsea Residence
An AP report notes an inscription over Lloyd George's Chelsea home urging secrecy on all spoken confidences. If observed, neighborly quarrels and rumors would fade, reducing gossip's spread and the power of whispered defamation.
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New York Herald
Associated
Compensation
The excerpt recalls a speaker enduring long nights of grief and torment, comparing pain to rain and a tremor of fear in a bleak storm. Morning light brings a shift to a broader sense of meaning as life’s sorrow is reframed to discover beauty in field and forest and in the heritage of experience.
Tendencies in Modern Journalism Extracts by R R Kilroy
Kilroy surveys two decades of journalism shifts from heroic editors to modern tastes. He contrasts historic voices with today’s buyers, notes the rise of sensationalism, public taste, and the public’s distrust, and urges a renewal of humane values and faith through journalism and culture.
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R. R .Kilroy
Anaconda Standard
University Club of
Butte
Dana
New York Sun
Watterson
Louisville Courier Journal
Peter Finley Dunn
Chicago Journal
Judge Goodwin
Salt Lake Tribune
Harvey Scott
Portland Oregonian
America
Delphi
Sidney Smith
George McManus
Bud Wisher
Nicholas Romanoff
Germany
White House
Butte Society
Andy Gump
Matt and
Jeff
Jigs
Supreme Court
Carpentier
Axe
Jie
Little Jeff
Sylvester Skink
Chicago Tribune
United States
Dickens
Joseph Hergesheimer
Thackeray
Octavius Cohen
George Eliot
Mademoinelle
Mary Roberts Rhinehart
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Wallace
Wallace Printing Company
Elks Temple Building
Bank Street
Wallace, Idaho
A. J. Dunn
Canada
Willis Mason West
University of Minnesota
Boise Public Schools
Republc
Mr. Conner
Boston
Great Britain
Bunker Hill
Lexington and Concord
Ponl Revere
Long Island
New Jersey
Trenton
Princeton
Saratoma
Burgoyne
Monmouth
Cowpens
King Mountain
Cornwallis
Yorktown
Jefferson
Madison
South
Robert E. Lee
Grant
Eugene V. Debs
la Follette
Hiram Johnson
William Uren
Oregon
Jre
Ja Tong
Taftland
Northwest
St. Paul
Board of Regents
John A. Johnson
Sam
Charlotte Becker
N. Y. Herald
Concord
Pony Express
Grandpa
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Ward
James
Frank Daniels
Billy Crane
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