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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1922
Page
4
Reports list prices for dark northern wheat and durum and oats, with multiple local notes on residents’ illnesses travel and social visits. Community updates include several name mentions and hospital news,fections and church announcements.
Hamilton Fish Jr a New York congressman and writer of the Legion Preamble pushes a bill to raise pay from twenty to fifty dollars monthly for nurses aiding blind legless armless and totally disabled ex soldiers He champions land reclamation irrigation and farming for veterans His Harvard captaincy and Croix de Guerre service in France are noted.
Myrtle Wilson, Spokane Legion post historian, secured $8,000 in pledges to fund a new clubhouse. She also writes the post newspaper, serves as advertising manager, and was a delegate to the Legion national convention. During the war she served in the navy at a San Diego government hospital.
Guests at a formal New York dinner hosted by Mrs. Andrew Carnegie received pencils from the butler after the last course as the hostess requested responses.
Mrs. Carnegie displays autograph tablecloths with famous names embroidered around plates and a locally signed cloth honoring town builders. An examination for a rural carrier is set for May 13 in Linton. Visitors from Kintyre, Zeeland and nearby towns arrived for the hay leasing near Bradock.
Delegates from ten states at the League of the Southwest session in Riverside, California, endorse using water for hydroelectric power first, then irrigation, to unlock vast power and housing growth. The plan faces complex legal, interstate, and international water rights as officials like Secretary Fall and Engineer Davis weigh federal aid and Impounded water projects amid the Salton Sea, Imperial Valley, and Colorado River developments.
Edgar Lucien Larkin warns in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that dates over the plains of Idaho and Coachella to from eighty to 100 feet. The raised banks of silt dissolve like powdered sugar and cannot withstand another big flood. United States government aid is needed immediately.
Nine hundred frogs decorate a Wedgwood creamware service made for Catherine II at La Grenouillere. A landscape-centered design with acorn borders marked the pieces, twelve hundred in the set, of which nine hundred were found in St. Petersburg early in the last century. Likely dispersed by the Russian revolution, some pieces surfaced in European shops and possibly the United States.
An antiques article notes a green frog motif on a field set with no clear indicators of noble origins or imperial affiliation, leaving its provenance and significance uncertain.
Roald Amundsen will leave Seattle next May with Lieut Omdal and Sgt Odd Dahl to attempt a North Pole transit by airplane. The party will carry a moving picture unit, 30 000 feet of film, and 60 horsepower planes with skis and wheels. Two extra men join from Norway and the Maud will rendezvous with wireless support from Etavanger. A shed on the ice will house the planes as space is limited aboard the Maud. Norwegian army and navy provide arms and munition, plus 60 rations tested by Professor Torup for Seattle.
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