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Newspaper
Wallace Miner
Location
Wallace, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1920
Page
2
The Wallace Miner entered at the Post Office in Wallace Idaho as Second Class Mail Matter. Elks Temple Building Bank Street Wallace Idaho J Dunn Balter. Subscription price per annum two dollars fifty cents for domestic, eight dollars for foreign Canada and all countries in Postal Union.
The author urges Congress to amend immigration rules when it convenes on December 6 to halt what they call an influx of undesirables landing daily in New York. They warn current rates could exceed one and a half million yearly, fueling radicalism and cheap labor pressures that undermine wages.
Reports from Washington say Congressman Addison T. Smith of Twin Falls Idaho is prominently mentioned for Secretary of the Interior in the Harding administration. Smith, a lawyer and longtime public servant in Washington, has led the Speakers Bureau in the West for the Republican Committee and serves on the Public Lands Committee as a well informed insider on interior department needs.
It is no longer necessary to argue the value of tourist travel to Wallace Mullan and Kellogg. The just closed season demonstrated practical benefits and public spirit may extend to attracting more travelers next season. Free camp grounds and accommodations are warranted by the tourists' spending, though advertising value from visitors countrywide remains the key long-term benefit.
The region's tourist traffic has highlighted free accommodations and growing camp capacity in Wallace. Plans call for doubling camp size and enhancing grounds at Mullan and Kellogs. Officials urge promoting mines, mills, smelter tours, trout streams, and mountain drives to attract visitors and showcase district attractions.
An interview with Thomas A Edison in the American magazine outlines a plan to build a scientific apparatus to detect or record communications from personalities in another existence. Edison stresses no claim of survival and says the device would provide a more credible method than ouija boards, tables, or mediums.
The speaker cites Thomas Edison on a universal, indestructible life force. He argues life cannot be created or destroyed, only reassembled, with bodies built from countless life entities that persist beyond death. Entities circulate through generations, ensuring life’s continuity despite physical decay.
The piece notes that despite Harding and a Republican Congress being elected, it will take considerable time for the program to become action. The first major result is public confidence, four months until Harding takes over the executive department, another month for Congress to assemble, and several weeks to craft and enact key laws. Next summer the reconstruction program should be well under way with new welfare laws following.
The article argues that small investors favor mining and oil stocks for quick gains. It warns that with limited funds they seek high returns, trusting in new prospects and wildcat ventures while preferring genuine, square deals and the protection of federal issues for safety.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia outlines six traits for the ideal educated man. He emphasizes precise English, good manners, sound sensibility, reflective power, educability, and efficient, steady work without nerves. The plan frames these factors as essential for a well rounded, educated individual.
The passage argues that a highly educated, well poised individual combines natural endowments with disciplined education. It compares physical training and intellectual cultivation, noting education shapes self-control and the ability to discern truth. It asserts education aims at high ideals, justifying its past and future value.
The article explains how new freight rates raise delivery and smelting costs for copper and other metals, pushing up prices charged by smelters to ore producers. It notes smelters deduct portions from quoted metal prices to offset higher charges, risking mine closures for small producers while suggesting prices may fall in some lines but not for most metals, with lead possibly easing later.
The Shanghai Times reports Heligoland, the German fortress in the North Sea, is rapidly disappearing as the inter allied naval and military mission under the peace treaty dismantles fortifications. Over 28 years Germany built 12 inch guns, harbors, airship sheds, and cliffs by Elbe dredging. now dismantling proceeds under allied supervision with German labor.
A Kansas City Star excerpt observes rapid modern shifts in communication and time, noting weather and fashion patterns out of season, early magazine arrivals, and instant long distance contact across continents. It highlights the accelerating pace of global connectivity and the speed of information flow.
A reflective monologue praises the phrase Good bye God bless you as a sacred, gracious gesture. The speaker recalls Anglo-Saxon directness, the comfort of ritual farewells, and a memory of a mother bidding farewell with blessing. The verse elevates farewell as a binding, hopeful blessing across times and tears.
A Chicago Tribune view cites Lothrop Stoddard on Japanese immigration and birth trends in California. It notes rising Japanese numbers, Births, land ownership, and potential shifts in U.S. demographics, urging firm action to eliminate what it calls a menace and warning of cross border tensions with Japan.
A farmer's wife, ten miles from Independence, dressed in silk stockings and a pretty dress, fed the hands, played bridge in Independence all afternoon, won a prize, had dinner with a friend, met her husband, and then drove to Kansas City for a hotel dance before returning home for a few hours sleep before breakfast.
About 12 percent of Colorado Fuel and Iron employees own cars. Of 5000 workers, 595 can afford automobiles for off work use. The CF I company has built garages in mining towns, with 418 stalls currently filled. Some larger towns also have multiple garages, and demand exceeds supply as many car owners still seek space.
A Kentucky guest at a banquet toasted women with a quip about transforming grape juice into joy. The remark, framed as a playful verse about a carburetor turning melancholy into happiness, captures a local humor moment from the event reported in the Tampa Tribune.
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