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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1922
Page
2
Reuben Gray and Emily, longtime savers from a New England village, upgrade from a cottage to a big hilltop house then rent a hired girl. With newfound wealth from land sale, they visit Boston, encountering high prices, grand hotels, and a long awaited boiled dinner before the city’s charms test their thrift and nerves.
After losing money and a restless spring, Reuben and Emily Gray revisit their past. They blend with a poorer neighbor, Emily restoring the neglected garden while Reuben faces his own infidelity. They swap homes, choose contentment, and reflect that some pleasures are best enjoyed when young enough to savor them.
Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, famed for wiping out three machine gun nests and 19 Germans, receives the freedom of the city in Jersey City. He then visits New York, hosted by Supreme Court Judge McCook, with steadfast credit to the regular army and family esteem from his wife.
George Campbell, a Civil War veteran at the United States Soldiers' Home in Washington, D. C., embodies Uncle Sam with steel blue eyes and a white goatee. He leads the George Washington post No 1 of the American Legion as its official grandfather and relives Civil War battles for younger members. Born in Ireland, he served with the Seventeenth Infantry during the conflict. He enjoys donning red white and blue and marching in parades. Maurice Jimmy Brocco and partner, two-time Madison Square Garden bicycle race winners, announce their French nativity after being identified as Italian. Brocco was born in Fismes on the Vesile river in the Marne department, 88 years ago, and Fismes was recaptured by American troops in July 1918.
Post 12 American Legion Somerville New Jersey received official letters of thanks from Lord Curzon and the British ambassador. The post held a military funeral for a British army captain with no relatives in the United States, as the city prepared to bury him in the potter's field.
Armistice Day casualties in World War I totaled 3,012 for the American Expeditionary Forces on November 11 1918 per the adjutant general. Among them 268 were killed 2 760 severely wounded 466 slightly wounded 177 slightly gassed and 282 wounded and gassed with degree undetermined. The Fifth division bore the brunt of this day’s losses.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch complimented the American Legion during a 16,000 mile tour through 42 states, saying those who organized his journey would be on his staff if another war occurs and praising the American people and the Legion.
General Pershing proposes to keep nine main training centers. The camps listed are Devens Dix Meade McClellan Knox Custer Fort Riley Travis and Lewis, keeping them as essential facilities for ongoing military preparedness.
In Chekhov's Note Book, the tranquil Patriarshi Prady neighborhood is described as quiet on the surface but deadly in truth. The reflection captures how street observation reveals a life of fear and danger behind peaceful facades.
Miss Bertha R. Palmer of the North Dakota federation says the modern flapper stems from art, not cosmetics, noting magazine covers ads and billboards shape a girl’s view. She contrasts glamorous depictions with Madonna and Florence Nightingale images as affecting dress and appearance.
A petrified man from the paleo lithic age was sent to the University of Michigan museum. A professor carving a foot piece found an iron rod inside the leg, likely causing death. The Detroit News notes this as a potentially fatal result.
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