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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1923
Page
6
Radio broadcasts describe an heiress who disappeared, with her mother fearing she wanders in a memory fade or amnesia. The piece reflects on memory episodes and anecdotes about forgetting debts, benefactors, and the oddity of such conditions.
Seventy one year old widow Mrs H A Barnett, a clergyman's widow from Bogilah, has had her first oil painting accepted by the Royal Academy after six weeks as a painter.
Assistant District Attorney Frank 3. Kelly leads efforts to push drastic injunctions sealing cafes hotels and saloons that persist in serving liquor. District Supreme Court injunctions aim to close entire venues for one year with bootlegging suspects indicted after first offenses. Government seeks to curb Shrine week liquor sales and prevent ongoing illegal activity.
National Geographic and the American Museum of Natural History plan a study in Arizona and New Mexico using cross sections of buried tree trunks to establish year by year climate history. Dr A B Douglas leads the method, which could date ruins by matching ring patterns to timber from past structures.
United States announces the Barling bomber the largest airplane yet built will be tested at Wilbur Wright field Dayton Ohio Lieut Leigh Wade and Harald R Harris named pilots for the flight the 120 foot wingspan six Liberty motors 40000 pounds speed not less than 90 mph gasoline capacity 2000 gallons crew of four minimum bombs 5000 pounds to be carried.
The heirs of Princess Amelia zu Lynar, Georg Felix von Lynar and Jane Lynar, are notified that Colonel Thomas Miller will handle their mother’s American estate in a decree by Chief Justice McCoy. The $750,000 estate, seized after the war declaration, centers on real estate near Columbus and stocks and bonds from George Parsons. The suit was dismissed. no heir has yet filed a claim.
Sir Henry Thornton, a Canadian national railway leader born in Indiana, spoke at an American Legion tribute in Canada. He supported organizing US veterans in Canada into Legion posts, with involvement from allied representatives and his leadership in cross nation wartime transport roles and honors from multiple countries.
West Virginia legislature passes three American Legion backed bills to require oath of allegiance for teachers, mandate flag display over schoolhouses, and boost instruction in U S history civics and state constitutions to promote Americanism and knowledge of government.
Theodore Marty aged about fifty five after slashing his wife’s throat and being forced to donate blood for her transfusion, sits repentant in West Chicago police custody. His wife Mrs. Marthe Marty remains in St Mary’s hospital recovering. doctors credit the transfusion with saving her life pending infection checks. Andrew Marty, her son, had rushed her to hospital after the attack. Marty is held on assault with intent to kill as police pursue charges.
A fire swept through the Greenwood poultry farm near Chicago destroying coops housing about 250000 chicks. The blaze caused estimated losses of 85000 dollars in structures and 1500 dollars in cash hidden in one coop.
Dr Arthur W Fox is held on $10000 bond in Chicago after being accused of manslaughter for causing the death of an eleven year old boy by breaking his jaw during a dental operation.
J H Keeler of Baltimore County regained health with Tanlac after fourteen years of illness. He gained forty pounds, returned to daily work, and credited Tanlac with restoring his digestion and strength. Advertisements tout Tanlac and its wide sales. A travel notice reports national park motorist registration and average passengers per car.
An advertisement argues against laxatives for constipation and promotes Nujol as a safe, non medicine lubricant that aids regularity through natural lubrication. It claims Nujol is harmless, non gripping, and used in leading hospitals, urging readers to buy from their druggist today.
In Gelnhausen a burned high wattage bulb factory site became a treasure trove as platinum specks, melted from ore, were unearthed in road rubble. Diggers earned up to 880,000 marks daily selling the metal while factory owners mined ruins to recoup profits.
A reader recalls a Sunday evening in our buue city when a visiting singer performed a beautiful solo in the opera house during a church service. In the moment, the audience clapped vigorously, revealing how context can shape appreciation and embarrassment for the writer.
A compact note from the Boston Transcript contemplates money, anger, and speech as competing means of influence with a curious line about ten holors and a speech by a wife in a domestic context.
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