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Newspaper
Wallace Miner
Location
Wallace, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1923
Page
2
Wallace Miner published weekly by Wallace Printing Company at Elks Temple Building Wallace Idaho with editor J Dunn. Subscription prices per year 2.50 for local and 3.00 for foreign Canada and all countries in Postal Union. Second class mail matter.
The hearings by a Senate gold and silver commission explore factors behind declining production. They note silver’s role as a byproduct in several districts, high wages, machinery and timber costs, freight rates, and forest service policies as key handicaps. Officials seek remedies via potential regulatory action, but direct links to production changes remain unclear.
John T. Adams, chairman of the Republican National Committee, issues a review of the party’s fifty year record. The piece frames the election year as a test of performance over promises and contrasts Republican governance with untried ideas abroad.
The text lists major Republican achievements including the homestead law that settled the West, transcontinental road building, sheep and sugar beet industry support, creation of the Bureau of Mines and Mining, reclamation and conservation policies, rural free delivery with parcel post, land grants for schools, the Chinese exclusion act, Panama Canal construction, and continued agricultural experiment stations across the United States.
The imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan claimed in Texas that Theodore Roosevelt would join the Klan if alive. The piece denounces the smear as slander against a man known for Americanism and equal justice under law. It connects Roosevelt’s views on immigration to broader civic creed and condemns religious or racial discrimination.
Governor Moore designates the week starting November 18 as American Education Week in cooperation with the National Bureau of Education and Idaho’s education system. He urges strong focus on law, home, church, character, and loyalty in school curricula to safeguard free institutions.
The speaker emphasizes a strong public school system shaping industries and professions through training and higher learning. Safeguards are essential to ensure schools remain a bulwark of freedom while imparting knowledge and virtues upon which the state's success depends.
A Washington conference of governors echoes Roosevelt’s practice to strengthen nationalism through federal and state collaboration. The focus is enforcing prohibition, with concurrent power between Congress and the states to regulate the liquor traffic. Presidents and governors must coordinate via law enforcement to achieve national policy.
The Chicago Tribune quotes Lloyd George urging US membership in the league and a Britain US alliance to secure world peace. The piece argues America is not ready to assume such impositions or take on warlike duties and warns against overreliance on selfless motives in European power politics.
A fragment notes growing certainty that the described remedy is not in our hands. The writer reflects on shifting attitudes as time reveals the limits of this supposed solution and questions prospects for Europe’s future.
The piece argues radicalism and envy echoing in the past and present. It recalls Daniel Webster’s 1833 senate speech accusing misers and agitators who oppose banks, wealth, and industry. It notes America’s growth despite dire prophecies and warns future disasters may still arise.
The article cites tests along the Santa Fe showing half of drivers fail to look both ways at railroad crossings. It notes railroads report rising crossing accidents and urges drivers to heed signals with the three word slogan cross crossings cautiously.
The Caribou Mining Company at Beauty Bay reports a new ore body of lead sliver ore on the lakefront property near Wolf Lodge. A larger ball mill is being installed to process ore, with 125 tons of rich ore on the dump and a planned Sunday visit by company representatives for stockholders and the public. The text notes platinum associations are unclear.
In hearings, mining executives pressed that forestry bureau obstruction, high costs, and reduced precious metal prices cut profits and hinder new claims. They cited $100,000 in development funds blocked by patent denial, leasers facing layoffs, and demand for scientific prospecting from the U S Geological Survey. The Boise hearing moves to Oregon and California with a final congressional report planned.
The Wall Street Journal notes American Smelting and Refining Company sells Federal Lead properties in the far river mining district of Missouri to St Joseph Lead for 10 million dollars. The 30 year smelting and refining contract shifts two thirds of the combined output to St Joseph Lead, making it the world’s largest individual lead miner with access to major ore bodies and smelting capacity.
The piece contrasts global calamities with American prosperity noting Russia in ruins Germany in crisis France striving for recovery and England burdened by unemployment while praising the United States as a land of vast resources and safety with a hopeful outlook for workers businesses professionals and families.
New York City gains its first zinc letter box at Maiden Lane and Front Street as the Post Office Department rolls out zinc mail boxes along the Atlantic Coast. The idea sprouted from a zinc miner in the Jol in Miami area and gained support through the American Zinc Institute to curb deteriorating painted boxes and improve mail handling.
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