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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1921
Page
2
Samson and Sarah aid Henry Brimstead and his children after meeting near a road in Vermont. Brimstead trades for water and food, then plans to join the Traylors toward the Sangamon as Henry finds new hope with transportation, clothing, and money.
The group travels along the river valley stopping at a tavern and processing a deer. They salvage jerky, treat a sore throat with a hemlock sweat, and care for Joe as they climb toward the Mohawk valley. They glimpse Utica’s spires and the growing settlement.
The travelers trek from Utica toward Boston and the Midland seas, tracing the old Mohawk Hudson route and viewing the Erie Canal in progress. They meet emigrants, camp beside the Genesee and Niagara rivers, share a camp with Flanagan Irish families, and face fatigue, humor, and warnings of a harsh Ohio Indiana swamp journey ahead.
Arthur Lueder, a 45 year old Elmhurst native and Chicago real estate man, has been appointed postmaster of Chicago by President Harding. A Spanish American War veteran, Lueder topped the civil service list from over 60 applicants after passing the eligibility exam, despite being little known in politics.
Dr. Ma Soo, Sun Yat Sen’s Washington representative, says 200 million southerners in Canton demand delegates at the disarmament and Far Eastern conference. He protests U S policy for excluding Canton and warns the southern republic will reject conference decisions if not represented. Canton controls six wealthy provinces with populations nearly double the United States.
Samson and Sarah Traylor and their two children travel by wagon in the summer of 1831 from their home to Vergennes Vermont and then to the Country of the Sangamon in Illinois. They aim to take up a government land grant, guided by a title book and stories of vast fertility. They travel through New York state, staying with welcoming farmers along the way.
The passage argues that despite many new books, good literature remains created by devoted writers who work in their own way. It recalls Thackeray, Dickens, Carlyle, Ruskin, Tennyson, Browning, Irving, Hawthorne, Lowell, and Emerson as examples of timeless literary craft.
Bryn Mawr college president Dr. M Carey Thomas will resign at term end in June after reaching the mandated retirement age of six years past which directors must step down. A committee chaired by ASA Wing seeks a successor capable of advancing the college’s aims and carrying forward Thomas’s notable achievements. Thomas’s legacy includes opening Bryn Mawr to poor girls and women workers, making campus resources available free to working students during the summer.
The appointment of William J. Burns as chief of the Justice Department’s Bureau of Investigation signals a consolidation plan to create a single vast secret service. The merger would include Secret Service Treasury, post office inspectors, internal revenue agents, Justice Department agents, customs and immigration inspectors with congress approval needed for full unification.
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