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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1921
Page
5
February 8 marks Scouts Night for the Boy Scouts of America with a pledge ceremony at 8 15 p m local time. The event aims to unite communities and emphasize citizenship discipline and service through the oath and law across diverse troop locations.
A report from Ithaca Cornell and Boy Scouts of America notes evolving ties between scouts and universities. A Cowell University meeting discussed assisting students while at college. leaders praised college support and potential national service through local councils and mentors including Shanghai connections and studies at Sorease and Ediestional Direct loy.
A Boy Scouts of America troop recognizes a member who saved a fellow scout during a midnight fire drill incident. The rescuer, amid dangerous flames and a severe electrical hazard, conducted first aid until help arrived, narrowly escaping serious injury himself.
The readable fragments show a guarded health context with names and unclear terms. No clear event or outcome is established.
The article notes demand for dietitians with hospital background to join the Public Health Service training and public health education efforts. It discusses education campaigns, pharmacist roles, and a U.S. film project highlighting mosquito transmission, with references to Washington DC and Louisville.
Fragmentary report discusses Pellagra linked to income levels and poverty in villages, noting diet and market conditions. Mentions United States food standards, death rates, and the luxury of golf towns in Fifeshire, especially St Andrews, with iron golf head exports aiding trade.
The Whit tall carpet mill workers in South Worcester voted to refuse a 25 percent wage reduction proposed by the company. Massachusetts news notes discuss fraud conviction in Boston, a shoemaker aged 83 in Brockton, an estate inventory in Suffolk, and state financial figures for the year ending 1920.
The article discusses salaries for judges and clerks in the judiciary, with figures such as $15,000 a year for a supreme court justice and $12.40 for another position. It mentions attempts to correct salaries, references to Senate clerks, and notes on costs of food, coal, and domestic materials impacting farming and industry, including remarks by Vice President Coolidge and fuel price discussions in Massachusetts.
A Newark suit involved a Mrs Mary F seeking damages after a hotel refused to allow her cat at a stay between May 1 and 15. The court awarded compensation for moving and hotel costs but deducted the cat board, totaling 61 dollars with 20 for moving and 85 for hotel. The incident connected to possession and board charges during tenancy at an apartment.
A Christian Science Monitor writer notes that tapping hollow trees in dense woods reveals flying squirrel families. Curious offspring pop from the hole as eight to nine youngsters emerge, their large eyes and silky fur attracting close inspection.
Prominent note on St Andrews renowned for golf. The quip implies every man recognizes the town for its golf heritage as the sage hints at a timeless link to the sport.
American camphor is now produced synthetically from turpentine to supply the domestic market. Most camphor is imported from Japan and used in medicine and celluloid. The Agriculture Department has set up a camphor farm in Florida yielding a high grade product.
Women in California construct homes using bricks made from sun dried clay mixed with straw as binder. The bricks resemble Biblical era adobe used by Israelites in Egypt and are sun baked, offering durable, weatherproof structures with minimal materials amid high labor costs. The article notes children can assist and cites lasting adobe-like buildings still standing.
The Georgia Methodist Conference Notes show 66.7 percent of preachers come from farmers’ homes and 11.8 percent from preachers’ homes. Southern Presbyterian preachers: 47.7 percent from farmers’ homes and 18 percent from parsonages. United States Presbyterians: 88 percent from farmers’ homes and 15 percent from parsonages. Atlanta Constitution.
Chief Scout Executive James E West marks the eleventh birthday of the Boy Scouts urging every troop from coast to coast to perform better good turns. He asks all scouts to embody the idea so it becomes infectious nationwide.
A lone trailing Juni per tree, the only one left in Pennsylvania, is cared for by Elizabethtown Boy Scouts on a local farm. The tree stands about two and a half feet tall with a 45 foot spread covering over 2,000 square feet. Professor J. B. Mick of the forestry department estimates the age at least 165 years.
liberal supplies and downward trends mark the Boston market for fruits and vegetables. Maine Baldwins and New Hampshire Baldwins quoted, cabbage plentiful and cheaper, Florida lettuce weak, Maine potatoes slide, cucumbers and tomatoes scarce and pricey, dairy prices mixed with butter weakness, eggs and poultry mixed, city politics and state recommendations noted amid market report.
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