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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1921
Page
7
In Huntsville Alabama a man named Joseph Jones claimed a mule kicked him in the head causing injury. Investigators found his story partly true as the mule resisted stamping and kicked Jones in the brow, breaking the animal's leg before it was shot as a helpless cripple. Jones is expected to recover.
Robert Momens, 22, was sentenced to life in prison by Judge Florence Allen in Cleveland. The case marked Judge Allen's first murder trial with a jury of three women. Momens was tried for second degree murder for the shooting of Henry Thompson, who claimed self defense.
President Obregon told reporters he would “see what the gentlemen will have” after being asked about Mexico going dry, adding the only vice he recognizes is excess. Henry Doble of Norwood, a Philips Exeter Academy student, was named first alternate for Annapolis by Senator Charles A. Thomas.
General Chien Chuing Ming declares a manifesto to make gambling a death offense. South China agitation has grown after a massive demonstration of 80,000 against the vice last month. Gambling houses and fun tan joints have long drawn tourists to Canton. If enacted, many deaths are anticipated.
William A Radford describes a colonial style farm home with nine large rooms including six bedrooms and a nursery. The design emphasizes labor saving features like a dumbwaiter and service passage from cellar to kitchen, electric light, running water, and central heating to entice families to stay on the farm.
A compact study traces the fascination with revered animals from Marys little lamb to Siamese white elephants and sacred snakes. It notes beliefs of reincarnation power in the elephants and snake cults in ancient temples, including Cleopatra's asp, reflecting enduring mythic roles in civilizations.
Senator Hiram Johnson quips that radical movements shaped ambitions beyond wealth. A traveler asks Corn Husk the distance to Quag. Corn exaggerates five miles to outdo Jinks Hobson, then reveals the joke to prove Jinks overestimates his own reach.
A Wall Street Journal anecdote contrasts a skilled painter and a college‑educated office worker on a train. The painter earns about ten dollars daily, works year round in New York brick buildings, supports two sons through college, and notes educated peers get higher pay. The office man admits two years in service held him back, unsure he earns as much.
Exports of American table cutlery reached 2.8 million dollars in the past year. Europe shows Norway at 225 thousand and Denmark at 140 thousand, while the two American continents lead demand with Brazil at 524 thousand and Argentina at 289 thousand. Chile, Cuba exceed 100 thousand, Mexico near 100 thousand, signaling U S progress in high end cutlery manufacturing and shifting world markets away from European dominance.
United States Agricultural Department chemists uncover a clever saffron substitute in a consignment of dyestuffs. The yellow dye from crocus stigmas is costly, needing over 4,000 flowers per ounce, and samples showed a common plant’s flowers dyed and treated with red and blue hues, saltpeter, borax, and glycerine to mimic saffron.
Two Persian carpets once presented to Cann Alexander I by the ehipir of Perala and later to the prince of Oldenburg are offered in London at 2500 dollars. They were reportedly renewed from the Bolsheviks and brought to England by a British cruiser. The age is about 120 years.
A zoo scene features the Eared Vulture and Wedge Tailed Eagle debating self-importance and differences among species. The eagle boasts of being one of the finest birds, while the vulture laments its ugliness and isolation, reflecting on solitary life and distant origins in Africa.
A London 1682 edition of Saducismus Triumphatus sold for 510 dollars at a New York book sale. Former owner Dr. Jank P. O'Brien, new owner Lathrop C. Harper, and the volume once belonged to Cotton Mather who annotated it. Mather cited in Wonders of the Invisible World. The work was thought last of its kind until found among attic junk two years ago.
A Culver City night watchman advertising to trade his big pup for a small dog recalls a tale from a recent film shoot. Comic Lloyd Hamilton jokes about the dog’s fighting habit and a risk of losing his job if the watchman’s dog bests Mr Lehrman’s canine.
Exchange from the Boston Transcript notes a humorous dialogue where one speaker asks if the other knows how to swim and the reply affirms knowledge with a request for instruction. The caption frames it as a light, post graduate course in aquatic skills.
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