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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1922
Page
8
The article surveys summer dresses and hats highlighting taffeta, organite, fingham, and foutard among fabrics. It notes crepe remains versatile with color, while bold black and navy hats with wide brims, pokes, and feather trims anchor the season.
A California senator proposes a constitutional amendment to empower Congress to regulate nationwide child labor and override state and Supreme Court rulings. The measure targets under eighteen employment and would require two thirds in Congress and ratification by three quarters of state legislatures to take effect.
Senator Culberson and family officials deny the affair between Miss Mary Culberson and British veteran Alexander Robertson. Robertson accused of kidnapping plots. the pair had planned marriage but public and legal entanglements led to a break. Robertson, 24, and Miss Culberson, 21, last involved five months ago in Austin and Washington.
Uncle Sam and William T. Lopp drive 2 500 reindeer from Good News bay toward Riley creek on the Alaskan railway to feed the mossy plains along the route. Slaughter planned in fall. 12 000 square miles opened for feeding and transport. Eskimos gain wealth from herds worth over 4 million dollars. Lopp credited for teaching reindeer husbandry and aiding Point Barrow relief in 1897.
The Senate ridiculed the tariff bill in a lively exchange. Senator McCumber of North Dakota was dubbed the funny man by Senator Harrison of Mississippi before Senator Williams of Mississippi defended his colleague, invoking Samuel Johnson and Scottish wit to contrast humor with sense.
Federal Judge Neterer of Seattle rules the last wishes of a soldier killed in France outrank departmental regulations, a stance echoed by the American Legion. The decision upheld Agnes Olafty as the residual beneficiary of Clarence Swank’s $9,000 estate, despite Swank’s death in battle and prior beneficiaries.
The steamship American Legion sailing between New York and Buenos Aires with an American Legion crew now bears a bronze tablet in its main dining saloon.
A dedication tablet was engraved and presented by the national commander of the Legion. The formal ceremony occurred in the presence of New York and New Jersey Legion officials and about two hundred guests.
French biologists report diseased poultry from Germany destined for France under reparations agreements briefly died after arrival. Inquiries into the dead fowls revealed cholera germs. Paris Matin calls for a government investigation into the matter.
A grouchy millionaire snaps at a timid suitor asking to marry his daughter. He eyes the youth and jokes about past relations, pressing the matter with sharp, dry humor as the scene unfolds in a wartime era column.
Al ton T Roberts of Marquette Michigan, head of the American Legion reception committee, shadowed pastry cooks in North and South Carolina for two months to obtain a recipe for an angel food cake said to have delighted Marshal Foch on the train. After Marshal Joffre’s tour, Roberts claims the recipe is found and prepares for Legion guests at the New Orleans convention in October.
In St Augustine Florida a hotel owner saluted and apologized to the local American Legion after flying the flag upside down to protest a carnival tent near his hotel. In Littleton Colorado two Legion steeplejacks climbed a courthouse tower to recover a tattered national flag as a protest continued. County officials dismissed the request to replace the flag.
David Gardiner of the One Hundred Fifteenth Infantry, wounded and gassed at Chateau Thierry St Mihiel and the Argonne, returns to civilian life after 18 months in hospital. On his release he signs for American Legion membership and a New York theatrical engagement.
After President Harding’s May 20 1921 order more than 00 ex soldiers have become United States postmasters. Montana education board votes to build war memorials costing 15000 each. Service flags remain, with thistle merchants noting ex servicemen employed locally. Commander Hanford MacNider receives 700 Memorial Day invitations and accepts one from St Paul Minnesota.
Mrs T J Archer of 1147 Shepard St Peters burg Va extols Taniac for cure of indigestion headaches dizziness and rheumatism after months of misery and poor health. A sister recounts a noisy dog disturbing a sleeping grandmother and a nephew asking to sleep with the dog in bed.
Two college women in a dorm scene joke about academia, fashion, and looks as Norah notes the faculty, clothes, and maida in a playful line sourced from Youth's Companion.
A humorous exchange where a wife asks if a man could truly say his wife is the only woman he ever loved and the husband jokes that only Adam could have claimed that, delivering a light punchline about biblical origins.
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