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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1922
Page
19
Hereward Carrington conducts a laboratory test in New York using radiophone equipment to detect mechanical aspects of thought waves. A high tension signal aids transmission to a radio detector and phones, with the subject’s head in a directional aerial.
Boston girl Miss Bessie Melvina Furbush missing a week is found safe after a family Ouija board spell indicated she was restrained by an auto accident with a man named John. Authorities confirm the message led to her safe return.
An old England practice called Key and Bible tested thieves by placing a key over a Bible at Ruth 1 16 and holding fingers to form a cross while repeating the verse. Suspects’ names were read aloud and the key was said to jump when the thief’s name was spoken. A case reached Ludlow magistrates in January 1879.
A Cape Breton man had a nail embedded in his spine for 21 years. Doctors at a Toronto hospital removed the nail and three pieces of vertebrae to free the spine. The patient injured in a railway accident is recovering well.
Lester Jones of Washington DC, founder of the American Legion movement in America, and longtime leader of early World War veterans groups, rose from private to colonel in World War I and led DC posts and the district department. He helped form the John J. Pershing post in 1919 and later commanded George Washington post No. 1 and the DC department.
The American Legion organized final rites for 45 01 A I S dead, handling last honors on eastern ports over two and a half years. Ceremonies varied but included chaplains prayers and rifle salutes, with notable addresses by Harding Pershing and Lodge during ceremonies for arrivals such as the Princess Matoika and the Somme Wheaton. The last cargo arrived in Brooklyn aboard the Cambria in April 1922, honoring Private Charles W Graves with a cavalry escort and closing public demonstrations for America’s returned dead.
Clarence H. DeMar of Melrose, winner of the 25 mile American Marathon, trained by running toward Berlin in 1918 and dodging missiles. He finished fourth in a long race among Allied troops in Pershing stadium, Paris, and now leads a boy scout troop welfare effort.
The ministry of war says it will take about ten years to replace the blue khaki with horizon blue and steel gray cloth for the French army. Existing stock must be used in priority and the complete switch will span a decade despite War Council efforts to speed up uniformization.
Roger Sherman, president elect of the Chicago Bar association, pledges upright lawyers and a strengthened bar to combat organized crime. He notes Chicago, with more police and prosecutors, seeks to elect honest judges and disbar unscrupulous lawyers through primaries and the grievance committee.
Government officials dismiss abroad criticism of Vittorio Rolando Ricci's United States tour. Ambassdor Ricci spoke to Italian communities coast to coast including Chicago urging Italian Americans to become citizens and vote. Critics say the trip aimed to centralize the Italian vote to influence U S elections and favor Italy, a violation of foreign ambassador privileges.
George F. Baker a New York financier and philanthropist donates 1 1 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and 500000 to the Society of the New York Hospital. He also gave 700000 to Columbia University for the Dyckman tract athletic stadium. The hospital society, chartered in 1771, runs the New York Hospital and Bloomingdale Hospital with about 2 018 000 patients treated, 75 percent free. Baker serves as a Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee for thirteen years.
Portrait of Stanislaw Szukalski, Polish sculptor in New York, who married Helen Louisse Walker of Chicago. Sketch by Rudolph Weisenborn, depicting Szukalski as a radical artist and storm center in Chicago and abroad. Background includes his early modeling at Northwestern Settlement and his dispute with the Art Institute.
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