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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1921
Page
7
The county announces a plan to hire a woman adviser for teachers to work with the superintendent. The position offers $120 a month, with the superintendent earning $150 for supervising. It proposes frequent school visits, occasional teachers’ meetings, and a field deputy to assist. State and county apportionment was set at 33.25 per child with weekly weather figures included.
Forecast suggests possible snow on Wednesday with changes by Thursday and a generally fair period for the rest of the week. Early next week may start unsettled and colder with likely rain or sleet by Wednesday.
Mrs. Margaret Munns national treasurer explains reports of a national WCTU membership drive are erroneous. The organization plans only its usual work to promote Sabbath observance and is not conducting a special campaign for blue laws. Henry Ford tours new gasoline propelled coach with Detroit Toledo & Ironton line officials.
Toronto man John Doughty was found guilty of stealing one hundred five thousand dollars in bonds from his former employer, theatrical magnate Ambrose Small, who has been missing for over a year.
Treasury monthly statement shows January ordinary government expenditures at 388,179,272 compared with 404,575,091 in December. Public debt payments dropped to 590,100,657 from 1,600,418,856 in December, while overall January outlays fell by over 16 million.
Washington announced federal river and harbor expenditures totaling 15 million dollars with the Mississippi and Ohio rivers receiving the largest shares. Major General Beach, chief of engineers, said 12,785,000 is allotted to the Ohio and 1,100,000 to the Mississippi from approved war department appropriations.
The three year old daughter of William Dietrich of Bowdoin is killed when a small building he was moving toppled and crushed her. In Washington, the Agriculture Department reports Americans drink more milk than earlier generations, with per capita consumption at about 44 gallons last year.
Holdredge Nebraska report states C A Henline a local farmer set fire to all buildings on his farm and died by his own hand while alone on the property.
Cardinal James Gibbons, head of the American Catholic Church and archbishop of Baltimore, died at his residence after a prolonged illness chiefly affecting his heart. He was 86 or 87, with Monsignor Bonzano, Bishop Corrigan, and many clergymen present. Rome sent telegrams and the pope had just bestowed his benediction.
Delbert Smith of St. Paul was captured after visiting a post office to learn about friends actions. Postal inspectors say he confessed to single-handedly holding three mail clerks at bay on the Northern Pacific North Coast limited between St. Cloud and Minneapolis on February 18, rifling $60,000 in registered mail and killing Z. EB. Strong of Minneapolis when he refused a command.
Chicago authorities banned the Dearborn Independent from streets after a conference between acting corporation counsel James W. Breen and Captain Patrick Lavin of the central police station. Breen said the anti-Semitic stance fueled a fist fight that could have sparked a riot, and city action aimed to maintain peace. In Harrisburg, four Bethlehem Steel workers died and several were injured in an explosion at a Steelton furnace.
Famed naturalist John Burroughs died on a New York Central train near Kingsville Ohio while returning from California. He had suffered six weeks of illness from an abscess on the chest and heart with kidney complications. Burroughs hoped to reach Floral Park to celebrate his 84th birthday with friends including Henry Ford Edison Firestone. He was a revered nature writer known for intimate observations of birds bees flowers and the outdoors.
A warehouse at 701 Barber St two miles southwest of downtown Chicago exploded killing eight, with estimates up to sixteen dead and many wounded. Officials blamed illegal fireworks manufacture and storage, leading to two men jailed and two others possibly killed. The blast caused timbers and bricks to fly hundreds of feet and shattered windows in a department store.
A method explains that the day length equals twice the sunset time and the night equals twice the sunrise time, applicable to any time of year. The note emphasizes simple calculation to determine daylight duration.
Insects produce buzzing from rapid wing vibrations, often over a hundred strikes per second, and some species have a quivering organ near the wing base. Chirping or trilling results from a stridulating mechanism where a part scrapes against another, similar to a fiddle bow, potentially leg against wing.
A historical note explains preparing drills for hard steel without drilling. Heat the drill evenly, remove scale, touch the tip to quicksilver, then quench in water to enable cutting hardest steel. For small tools tempering, heat red hot and plunge into a potato, then draw to correct temper to reduce brittleness.
The judiciary committee voted 9 to 4 to recommend unseating Assemblyman Henry Jager socialist of Kings County on charges he was not a resident of New York when elected. Russia shipping gold to Sweden reports tons of Soviet gold entering Stockholm to be melted stamped and sent to America.
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