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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1922
Page
5
Greenland hosts 22 000 Eskimos and 240 Danes with self rule over grievances led by tribal headmen. The Danish government restricts landings to explorers and scientists to curb liquor and disease. Churches, ministers, physicians, and Eskimo newspapers flourish in summer gardens and winter isolation.
At Sironcha where four women missionaries care for 170 girls 100 boys and 45 widows the threats from panthers and leopards have killed six and injured twenty in a month. Villagers and children fear daily attacks as beasts break into village homes.
London explorers report findings of so called abominable snow men in the northern Himalayas. Accounts describe a six foot tall, highly muscular, nearly naked figure at 16 000 feet with a primitive bow and arrow. Several witnesses from Indian service corroborate sightings in Sikhim.
The article notes a 1922 boom in pigeon racing, a modern sport with roots as messenger birds. It recalls early long distance races in Belgium and London, and how England began regular races in 1881. Training has increased speeds from about 1,250 yards per minute to over 60 miles per hour.
Excessive rains ruin oats there but three corn crops a year are possible from one field. To preserve it farmers leave ears in husk and hang bundles on bamboo poles. Weevils threaten if not husked and shelled as needed as corn mills arise in Visayan Islands where cornmeal is favored over rice.
Miss May V. Hazlett, a young English woman, has lived alone on a Saskatchewan farm for four years, working the land and gaining independence. After a three month visit to England to marry, she plans to return to the Canadian west with her husband.
A survey of literary uncles from Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus and Uncle Podger, noting their roles and notoriety. Highlights include Dickens figures Ralph Nickleby and the miserly uncle in David Balfour, plus Sherlock Holmes creator's uncle and other celebrated foils across novels.
A seven year old named Lyman Hunter wrote a tale titled Jim and John for a class assignment. The Kansas City Star notes the child’s story details two burglars, a house, and a gun rising to a dramatic ending after the boys and their mother return home.
Harvard announced that Theodore Richards and Gregory Baxter determined weights for nearly forty of the ninety chemical elements. After 35 years of work, the findings show unity of the universe as meteorite iron and earth iron share weights. Silver and copper remain constant, lead has two weights, and radium yields lighter lead.
The Department of Agriculture uses a twelve thermometer system to monitor temperature at twelve car locations. A cable connects these to a twelve point plug on a recording box, showing the exact temperature and charting each thermometer’s location.
Mary Frith known as Moll Cutpurse a famed thief in Charles I era died of dropsy at seventy four She was noted for strength and cross dressing and once held up Lord Fairfax on Hounslow heath before being captured at Newgate and escaping by bribery.
Among the women of the English aristocracy who have become motion picture actresses are Lady Diana Cooper daughter of the duke of Rutland the Hon Lois Stuart daughter of Lady Alington Miss Poppy Wrexham daughter of Lord Inchcape and Tady Eden.
Barbara B. Hunting argues that assigning small household tasks to children builds responsibility and self reliance. Start with age appropriate duties such as tidying, errands, and helping with chores. Mothers should avoid doing everything and foster independence to shape capable young adults.
Enrollment in fourteen chapters in China Havana London and other foreign division locations surged after a year with 126000 members. Officials expect this year's total to reach or exceed 216000 as the division expands.
Tourists visiting Hawaii’s Kilauea deposit coins knives and gear into the lava stream near the crater edge. The items become encased in molten rock, cool, and are recovered by guides with a long stick. Embedding creates keepsakes of the world’s largest volcano.
A Chicago Journal excerpt discusses whether the cuckoo's behavior in laying eggs in other birds nests is just. It notes nature assigns multiple male offspring to cuckoo hens and questions how they would raise a brood with five or six husbands in the house.
Journalists debate the term receiver and transmitter for telephones noting the device that captures voice is the transmitter not the receiver. A New York columnist sketches women sharing a department store telephone booth and speaking into the wrong end, highlighting public confusion.
In a conversation about the tramp Dick Faulkner, Uncle Bobbie Wicks and his wife discuss human desperation stating there are men who turn to vice because they have nowhere else to go. The remark notes social neglect and dire paths taken by those with no options.
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