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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1921
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR note mentions New York police, patrol, and individuals John Licweara and others in ambiguous context. No clear event or outcome established.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Beattle Washington and a city leader in an unclear context. Readable terms include Beattle, Washington, and references to a leader or official, but no coherent events, dates, or names emerge to define a clear story or outcome.
The speaker laments alleged bias against married women in employment, claiming wives with employed husbands face restricted opportunities. He argues women will work for less, harming homes, and asserts a pushback will occur in Oregon.
Fragmentary OCR not enough to identify a full event. The readable bits show stray phrases and garbled names suggesting a local item or inconsistency rather than a clear news event. No clear persons, organizations, places, dates, or outcomes to summarize.
A fragment notes a Western chief with military honors in the men’s section mentioning the Medal of Honor, a Croix de Guerre, and a Victorin cross, indicating recognition of valor and merit in wartime service.
In September 1918 Montreuil Wood and Lt. Col. OConnor of the Winfield Kansas Courier earned the Distinguished Service Cross for valor. He rallied a brigade near Montreuil Wood, repelled two enemy attacks, and helped form the American Legion in Paris in 1919, contributing to its naming.
A national American Legion study finds thousands of World War I veterans who turned to farming largely recovered from shell shock. City settlers lag in health recovery. Canada and government loans noted.
Fragmented report lists items from Piapan store thefts to dynamite found in a barn near Pleasant, with references to county indictments against M G Ma Duffie and bank embezzlement case. Mentions floods, farm wages, cave county updates, and Helen McCarthy leading academy efforts amid weather.
Port Chester police court fined Joseph Figan twenty six year old assistant chef ten dollars for stealing a yellow and white kitten from Charles A Thompson. The court valued the cat at ten dollars for prosecution. Thompson testified he saw Figan with the kitten and demanded its return. Figan claimed innocence and said he acted to protect the cat from a neighbor’s cruelty. The judge said he would teach respect for others property.
Hong Wing aged twenty one was sentenced by Judge Mulqueen to two and a half to five years in Sing Sing for felonious assault. He attempted extortion by writing a note in Chinese to importer Kong Chong Wing demanding 300 dollars then 400 in person. Kong Chong Wing struck him, Hong Wing drew a knife and attacked until police intervened. One man jailed others hospitalized.
Mrs Mila Levy swallowed a seven inch hatpin and lived. Surgeons removed the pin after it penetrated the stomach wall in three places injuring her, and a physician said she would have died within 24 hours.
A cryptic early text asks for three necers tieas of harmonie. It lists Weat Coin, cash and money and hints at alterations to England’s Brat feet in 878. The fragment preserves scattered names and numbers without clear narrative.
A fragment notes the gulten of Zanzibar and his wives landing at Durban. It suggests the captain urged calm conduct, warning that errors could not be corrected after leaving the ship. The tone resembles a London Punch reflection on voyage conduct and decorum.
The excerpt tracks Chestea Boehbe and Hughes as young teachers, noting Boehbe’s early bachelor degree and teaching intent. It recounts Hughes’s job struggles, a beard joke, and a lifelong whisker. It shifts to quirks about dog sunshades, a heat tale of a dog fleeing heat into a tunnel, and a contrast to wartime horse stamina.
A fragmentary quirky line suggests heat survival as a theme with a playful Darwinian tone. It mentions bath suits and a katydid call heard up to a quarter mile, hinting at heat and nature observations.
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