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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1921
Page
7
Denver Grazing permits indicate cattle ranges may have surplus while sheep ranges are fully utilized in Colorado and Wyoming. Market conditions late last year forced some livestock sales, with lamb prices higher than old sheep. Fewer lambs expected this spring and more older sheep sold this fall.
Count Minotto, son-in-law of Louis F. Swift, formerly interned as an alien enemy at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia, has become an American citizen. He renounced allegiance to Victor Emmanuel. Since release he and his wife Ida May Swift have lived quietly at Lake Forest Nichols.
Following United States Steel Corporation’s price cut, International Harvester Company will cut expenses by 10 percent next year on products where steel is the main input. The rollback targets harvesting machines including binders reapers mowers rakes treaders loaders corn binders corn huskers and silo fillers.
The heaviest hog ever sold in an open market weighed 1000 pounds at the Denver stock yards. Owned by Jake Thompson of Wray, Colorado, it sold to Keogh Doyle Meat Company for 6 cents a pound. The four year old animal cannot be handled by packing-house machinery and will be butchered by hand.
A Canadian government exhibit in St Paul features a hopeful young man who left Iowa for Western Canada seeking land ownership and financial independence. He notes past city pay and desires a self owned farm with cattle hogs and crops, asking about markets and profitability. Prices for unimproved land run 18 to 25 dollars per acre, improved land 80 dollars up, with strong claims of land value and productive potential. The piece argues land is the true path to wealth and autonomy, and Western Canada will help curb urban unrest among youths.
A nine year old observes his father's labor leadership and the concept of division of labor. He attends a prayer meeting with a neighbor for the first time and notes speakers. He comments that hiring several preachers would divide salaries.
Catarrh is a local disease influenced by constitutional conditions and requires constitutional treatment. BANE ATARAH MEDICINE is advertised as acting through the body surfaces to destroy the disease’s foundation. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine is said to restore general health and strength, with free circulars from Heney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
A fragment from the Birmingham Age Herald recalls a man declaring devotion to a woman who remains unmoved. The exchange centers on whether a brash promise could win her favor, highlighting social wit and the era’s flirtatious banter.
American designers dominate spring 1921 fashion with distinctly American suits and gowns. Gray dominates palettes from hats to shoes, skirts stay short for freedom of movement, circular skirts appear, and cape lines recur in wraps. Paris couturiers set varied skirt lengths but share a trend toward fuller, straighter silhouettes and renewed experimentation in fabrics like canton crepe and taffeta.
Read this advertisement claiming rich wholesome blood prevents pallor thinness and weakness. It touts SSS S.S.S. as a remedy and directs readers to an address for medical advice, mentioning Swift Laboratory and a Georgia contact.
A humorous exchange centers on two matched horses and a casual swap. The man and narrator test the punning idea, each claiming mock reluctance and then laughing at the result as the animals are now swapped yet idle, with simple good humor and a shared joke.
A children’s vignette recalls Little Mary misusing plural forms and misnaming medicines. She asks for a bhee instead of cheese, protests when told to behave, and quips about being have. She later requests a writing pill while Aunt Nell recovers and a lesson on pills versus tablets is shared.
A lighthearted anecdote from a Boston Transcript quote explains how a screen comedy caused a man to go white headed. He reveals the sudden change was not fright but powder sugar blown by two girls behind him during the film.
A dialogue from Proof of Love reveals Miss Gadthwaite breaking off their engagement after fortune telling said she would marry three times. She fears becoming first on the list, while the suitor notes the warning settles his case for now.
In a Boston report, charwomen demand double postwar wages and rations. One worker tells her employer that feeding is satisfactory but because they must eat more to endure anxious times they will not take on night duties after dinner.
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