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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1921
Page
14
U S Bureau of Mines reports July gasoline stock at 684,236,695 gallons versus 750,644,450 at July start. July production 419,641,815 gallons by 209 refineries, daily 13,536,833, down 807,980 from June. Exports 27,882,798 and domestic use 457,758,078 gallons.
An agreement signed here by French minister Louis Locheur and German minister Walter Rathenau commits Germany to supply France within three years with building materials valued at 7 billion gold marks. The pact finalizes a plan drafted in September for postwar reconstruction.
Walter Loveless of Marysville was found guilty of second degree murder in the slaying of John D. Koplos formerly of Anderson Indiana. Jack McGill was recently convicted of first degree murder. two others remain to be tried. Koplos was slain for jewelry valued at $12 000.
Federal officials say the September 10 post office substation robbery in Los Angeles yielded more than 100000 in loot. A reward of 20000 is offered for the arrest and conviction of the four bandits. In Carson City Nevada an assignment of errors was filed challenging Judge Langan’s reopening of Mary Pickford divorce proceedings.
Two young children aged 4 and 8, children of Mr and Mrs Oliver Gardiner, living fifteen miles south across the Kansas line, burned to death when a barn they played in caught fire. Parents discovered the blaze too late for rescue.
Francis Kluxen a 14 year old boy is held for the grand jury on charges of murdering 12 year old Janet Lawrence whose body was found strangled with knife wounds in the Kluxen woods near her home.
The Senate Interstate Commerce committee will reopen its investigation of the railroad situation. Oct 15, announced by Senator Cummins of Iowa, with Frank J. Warre as statistician for the Brotherhoods of engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen, will be the first witness. The inquiry began May 10 but no hearings have been held in two months.
Mrs Mauve E Taylor of Roxbury Massachusetts credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with easing years of back pain dizziness and fatigue from a displaced female system She says the remedy helped her sleep and perform household duties despite caring for five children and a demanding routine The letter urges other women to try the product and shares Taylor’s positive experience with the remedy.
The article argues farm homes now rival city houses with running water and electric lights, praising the emancipation of women and the added comfort of a modern living room, sun parlor, and ample bedrooms. It promotes a compact one story plus attic plan with practical layouts and durable frame construction.
The article asserts English is highly composite with about three-fourths of common life vocabulary from Anglo Saxon roots, while literature and commerce draw mainly from Latin Greek and Romance languages via French. It lists Scandinavian Dutch Celtic Hebrew Persian Arabic Hindustani Turkish Malay Chinese American Indian as smaller influences, noting many remote-language terms are product or custom names that rarely enter everyday use.
In a Boston Transcript snippet a clerk offers to register a letter for 10 cents with a receipt. Old SI dismisses importance, saying the letter merely proves he sent it, preferring to forego the fee and endure being called adiur as usual.
The saying fast and loose arose from a cheating game once common with gypsies. The game tested deceit and tricky betting in the lime of Shakespeare, giving the phrase its meaning of saying one thing while doing another.
Senator Sorghum compares public opinion to guessing a horse, underscoring politics as a difficult game. He notes that human opinion is similarly unpredictable, highlighting the challenge of forecasting outcomes.
On a summer night at a shore hotel Florence danced with many men. A blond haired stranger swapped a fraternity pin, and when he did not reclaim it Florence ran an urgent soul paper ad seeking the pin’s owner. A humorous note ends with a reflective proverb.
The New York Herald notes that volcanoes are most densely situated in Guatemala and Java, highlighting regions with high volcanic activity. The remark suggests a geologic pattern without detailing specific eruptions or dates.
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