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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1921
Page
3
In an attempt to save his 9 year old daughter Laura Thomas Toohey age 53 and three other family members drowned in Otter Lake near Ottawa Ontario. Laura waded too far from shore while Kathleen and Dorothy also sank. Mr Toohey and his son Bernard jumped in to help but all perished.
London reports eighteen million Russians face death from famine in a 500 mile famine belt along the middle and lower Volga. Riga estimates the crisis worsens as 1,500,000 Poles held in Russia are returned, complicating any frontier closure politically.
Washington reports more active buying by retail dealers in some regions, suggesting a slight improvement in the business situation. Archer Wall Douglas, head of the statistics and standards committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, comments in the monthly review.
Washington reports a broad drop in crop prospects due to July conditions. Wheat production is forecast at 2 million bushels lower than last month, corn 1 million bushels lower, oats 192 million bushels lower, and potatoes 61 million bushels lower.
The liner Olympic completed the crossing from Southampton to Cherbourg in five days eight and a half hours. Commander Sir Bertram Hayes noted the ship could have been faster if not for longer than usual delays at Cherbourg.
Monroe Mich Dr George T Harding father of President Warren C Harding came to Monroe and married Miss Alice Severns a longtime nurse in his Marion Ohio office. He is 76 and she 52 as the city learned his identity only after the ceremony with few recognizing the famed physician.
Washington officials plan to curb illegal midnight racing of immigrant laden steamers into U S harbors to land monthly quotas. A new agreement could end the practice on the first minutes of the new month, with differences noted among smaller lines.
Croydon England-Porty dollars per hour to learn flying at a newly opened airplane school. Quick trainees can operate in three hours. Further funds unlock a post graduate course including loop the loop and other stunts.
In Curfield Washington four year old Betty Joan Sander was in a lifebelt for seven hours after the Alaska sank. Her grandmother tied the life belt on the child and boarded a lifeboat with her. The boat overturned during launch and the child was thrown into the sea before rescuers recovered her.
A practical farmhouse plan by William A. Radford presents a 30 by 40 foot house with nine rooms, six bedrooms, and a central second-floor hall. The design emphasizes space saving closets, attic expansion, and a full basement for heating and storage, aimed at large farm families and hires, using standard lumber and simple clapboard siding.
A Northside resident watched a colony of ants hauling a green grasshopper to their underground nest. The lead ant struggled with the heavy burden, then a second ant arrived, cut off the grasshopper’s legs to free the path, and the meal was stored below ground.
A playful exchange about fashion and style centers on a friend praising a new look and the ship of a dreammaker designer. The dialog hints at elegance and wit as they critique an outfit and its potential transformation into grace. The tone is light and expressive.
A London Tit-Bits feature reveals the London clearing house near Lombard and King William streets as the hidden heart of banking romance. It notes daily flows around £127.5 million, with bills and checks moving by bank messengers, and tracks growth from 3,000 million to over 16,000 million by 1913, prompting expansion into Standard Life’s King William Street offices at £300,000.
Dr Robert I Griggs reported at the American Society for the Advancement of Science on a fiery flood in Alaska's Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Fissures venting live steam gas and smoke swept molten sand for over fifteen miles destroying fuel and heating tents. Explorers found refrigeration in a glacier cave and a crystal lake fed by glacier steam.
The article notes asphalt’s long role in waterproofing from ancient Egypt to modern times. It highlights asphalt’s central use in roofing, sheathing, insulation, and underground waterproofing, crediting petroleum refining for large scale production and expansion.
Russian inventor Hippolyte W Romano residing in New York has been granted a patent for a sixteen wheel vehicle. He asserts greater riding comfort and tire economy than conventional four wheel designs. The plan includes four four wheeled trucks at the car corners with independent spindles and linked parallelograms to keep all wheels vertical over obstacles.
A facetious junior reporter collapses into a hammock and muses on a tip, likening his situation to a typewriter keyboard as he jokes about closeness of U and I, in a Birmingham Age-Herald quote.
A quirky dialogue piece features Bil the Burg debating fashion and legal enforcement. The speakers express hopes for a future with less strict rules and more fashionable liberty, using playful wordplay and invented phrases.
A whimsical poem depicts rain children scampering on roofs and umbrellas while Old Mother Ocean jokes about wet faces. She says she never minds rain, loves a wet face, and enjoys the playful pranks, likening the rain to a friendly, cleansing touch that keeps her face washed. The ocean praises rain for the good it brings to flowers, grass, and birches.
The text describes a game where players form a large circle about three feet apart and run around on a signal. Each player tags the person ahead. when tagged, a player must drop out. The process continues until all players have been eliminated, following a cycle of tagging.
A soloist with an ego riled the choir as he drew all the best parts. The group arranged publicity to spite him and the newspaper note praised his renditions. The publicity writer defended himself saying readers clamored for more of him, not the rest.
New British Columbia game regulations limit bear trapping to prohibition and a maximum of three bears per season. Bounties rise on panthers to 40 dollars, timber wolves to 25, crows and magpies to 20 cents each, and both bighorn sheep and snow owls to one dollar each.
A brief exchange notes a cook is gone but a splendid recommendation remains. The remark blends courtesy with practical optimism about alternatives and service recovery.
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