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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1920
Page
11
Dutch colonial houses blend colonial exterior with Dutch roof lines and shingle walls. The Radford column explains a 26 by 84 foot wooden home with seven rooms and bath, plus porch and sleeping porch, built on concrete foundation and financed by installments.
The article describes a colonial interior with a wide reception hall flanked by a 13 by 22 foot living room and a dining room featuring a window bay and triple windows. A central fireplace with book cases, double French doors to a porch, and a sleeping porch option through canvas covered balcony are highlighted along with ample closets.
The article warns that Bulgaria plans to convert Thracian rose gardens near Kasanik into tobacco plantations. Rose cultivation, begun under Turkish influence, produced a pure perfume resource with vast estates across 150 villages and valued at about 6,290,000 per year before the war.
China leverages cheap labor and abundant materials to develop matches as a major industry. The War Western Review notes match production as a high potential sector with quick returns, counting 14 factories nationwide producing about 150 000 units annually.
The Wilson administration faced unified opposition as Democratic delegates rejected every proposed platform amendment on Prohibition and the League of Nations. Bryan led pro prohibition drives, while anti saloon forces and Irish republicans failed to sway the convention amid noisy demonstrations.
Samuel Alport, proprietor of the Northwestern International Bank in Chicago, was taken into custody by police after neighbors claimed about $6,000 entrusted to him for friends and relatives in Russia and Poland was not received by the consignees. Alport said letters to Russia reached port but thereafter vanished, blaming unsettled conditions and disjointed governments in each city.
Sam Cardinella described as the alleged head of a gang charged with the murder of Arthur P. Bowne, a saloon keeper, has been sentenced to death. Three other gang members already sentenced and a fourth awaiting sentence, Cardinella the thirteenth to be hanged in recent weeks.
Governor Clemente Vermont, after a conference with Senator Harding the Republican presidential nominee, indicated he would immediately call the Vermont Legislature in special session to act on the federal suffrage amendment.
Miss Catherine Var Ness, a social leader and member of the Hutton Park Millionaire colony in West Orange, died at the steering wheel of her car while driving with her parents Mr and Mrs Frederick L Van News through Newark New Jersey authorities investigated the fatal crash in the city streets.
The commerce commission announced 27 700 empty grain cars ordered for delivery to western states by eastern railroads. Initial shipments include 1800 to Santa Fe, 1200 to Soo Line, 400 to Wabash, 60 to Chicago Great Western, 100 to Chicago Northwestern, and 1200 to Rock Island. Additional grain car deliveries will go to Northern Pacific Great Northern and Union Pacific.
In a review of current events, leaders push canned speeches to replace special trains for campaigns. The steel industry faces campaign pressure and railway labor unrest worsens. Quiet suffragist hopes linger in southern states amid Turkish war reports and Greek successes.
By E. F. Clipson, William J. Bryan came near the spotlight but failed to secure a party platform. He blocked the Versailles treaty line while opposing the administration, yet could not dominate the delegates or name nominees. His paradoxical influence over party mobs and his stubborn Nebraska hopes define a singular political anomaly.
The article notes that the phonograph will largely replace special trains for campaigning before November. It claims candidates avoid long country trips and late hours, preferring voice messaging to spread speeches at stations and on rear platforms, reducing wear on leaders. Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan are cited as proof against the rigors.
The piece cites President Wilson’s fading vitality, Harding and Coolidge speeches on phonographs, and plans to spread campaign messages widely. It notes the GOP push for party government, and a Democratic counterplay. Warning signs loom with rail, steel, coal shortages and plant layoffs in the Calumet region.
The fate of a federal amendment for women voting rests on Tennessee and, if needed, North Carolina actions. Govs. Roberts and Bickett plan or consider special sessions to ratify. Vermont’s P. W. Clements has not committed. The piece also surveys Gallipoli era entanglements and Polish front developments with Wrangel gains and Soviet setbacks.
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