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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1921
Page
3
Birmingham Junior Chamber launches I Know Birmingham with 100 questions across city facets. Scouts earn bronze bars for passing exams and rededicate hours of civic service to progress to silver and gold medals. Sixteen top scouts win a pretrip meet with JCC members and a battlefield truck journey.
The Hills of Minneapolis purchased an 18 acre Lake Minnetonka farm as a permanent Boy Scouts camp. Scout Executive Dale calls it the finest camp site in America and Benjamin A Faust the former owner assisted with a favorable sale and financing. The boys cheer for a farm with woods a hayloft and a lake to swim in saying the Elks are regular guys.
Rev James Burns president of the University of Notre Dame endorses the Boy Scout Movement within the university noting its virtue shaping boys nationwide. He pledges to support the initiative practically to advance scouting here.
One hundred Lawrence Kansas scouts used gasoline to remove dandelions in a city park while Worcester Massachusetts scouts joined a missing man search. Brockton scouts aided police along a river for a young woman feared to have harmed herself. Uniontown scouts engaged in a nine swat fly campaign with a stilling effect.
AFFETA dominates the season along with Foulard georgette crepe and crepe de chine in silk frocks. Simple taffeta designs honor versatility with straight skirts tunics square necks three quarter sleeves and lace chemisettes. White borders and ribbon edgings contrast blue or green color options in two featured frocks.
A fashion feature highlights new fall hats as summer millinery fades with the first frost. Hand made elegance in fabrics like duvetyn moire and velvet, plus inventive ornaments and playful accessories, define four immediate wear styles. From bell crowned fabric hats to embroidered details and dragonette cellophane accents, the pieces promise to brighten wardrobes with bold, stylish shapes.
A 14 year old buys tickets for himself and his sister at a Boston Transcrit circus in a small town. Admission is 50 cents with half price for under tens. he pays 75 cents, claiming his sister’s tenth birthday today but was born at 5 PM.
A humorous Harper's piece recalls a trip in an English train where an elderly woman knitting and reading watches scenery. A young soldier enters with a rifle, sits opposite her, and she bluntly asks him to point the gun away from the window.
An old advertisement emphasizes using Bayer Aspirin only as directed by physicians, noting the Bayer Cross guarantees authenticity for colds, headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism, earache, toothache, lumbago, and other pains. It highlights affordable 12-tablet tins and larger packages from druggists.
A quirky joke item notes a witty exchange about a sister who keeps inspecting under furniture and a gag about a man reading his own biography. It ends with a playful line on a "summer girl" needing many summers to mature.
Hollywood talk and wit as Rex Beach explains the quick pay of scenario writing while noting its challenges. An English poet debuts in film with nine rejections after sending four scripts to Star Film Corp. A separate query questions the idea of women on juries, and a wry line asserts a gas meter has more feet than any inanimate object.
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