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Newspaper
Encampment Echo
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1921
Page
7
The U S Bureau of Mines reports July gasoline stocks at 684 236 695 gallons, down from July start 750 644 450. July production averaged 13 536 833 gallons daily across 209 refineries, down from June’s rate, with exports 27 882 798 gallons and domestic consumption 457 758 078 gallons.
An agreement signed by Louis Locheur and Walter Rathenau commits Germany to supply France within three years with building materials valued at 7,000,000,000 gold marks. The deal follows a September tentative framework and covers liberated regions.
Walter Loveless of Marysville was found guilty of murder in the second degree for the slaying of John D Koplos formerly of Anderson Ind Koplos jewelry valued at 12000 was motive It follows Jack McGill previously convicted of first degree murder with two others awaiting trial
Federal officials issued the first loss estimate of more than 100000 from the September 10 post office robbery here and offered a 20000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the four bandits. In Carson City Nevada an assignment of errors was filed in the Mary Pickford divorce case appeal after Judge Langan denied reopening the case.
In Franklin district, 4 and 8 year old children of Mr and Mrs Oliver Gardiner perished when a barn they played in caught fire. The parents, living fifteen miles south across the Kansas line, did not learn of the blaze in time to save them.
Francis Kluxen, 14, arrested and held for the grand jury on charges of murdering 12 year old Janet Lawrence. The girl was found strangled with knife wounds in the Kluxen woods near her Madison home.
The Senate Interstate Commerce committee will reopen its railroad investigation. On Oct. 15, Senator Cummins of Iowa announced Frank J. Warre, statistician for the Brotherhoods of Engineers, Firemen, Conductors and Trainmen, as the first witness. The inquiry began May 10 and had not held hearings in two months.
Mrs Mauve E Taylor of Roxbury Mass describes long backache and fatigue from childbirth post 66 years ago. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief, enabling her to care for five children and sleep better while working at home. She urges others to try the remedy and shares her experience.
A farm home article argues farms now rival city houses with running water electric lights and modern bathrooms. It describes a 14 by 17 area living room a sun parlor 8 by 18 and five upper bedrooms, plus an attic, with emphasis on female emancipation and the home as a practical modern residence adaptable to city streets. It notes costs and plans and praises the farm wife’s improved life and durable, space efficient design.
English is highly composite, with three quarters of its basic vocabulary from Anglo Saxon origins while literature and commerce draw most terms from foreign tongues chiefly Latin, Greek, and French via Romance languages. Other notable sources include Scandinavian, Low German, Celtic, Hebrew, Persian, Arabic, Hindustani, Turkish, Malay, Chinese, and American Indian.
A Boston Transcript excerpt shows a clerk offering receipt registration for 10 cents and guidance on registering important letters. An elderly man dismisses the item as not of real importance, preferring to avoid the fee and endure the ordinary treatment.
The phrase plays on a cheating game also termed prickling at the belt used by gypsies in early lime. The saying to play fast and loose has entered language to describe those whose ethics allow saying one thing while doing another.
Senator Sorghum quips that public opinion is as unpredictable as a horse race, noting the difficulty of forecasting political outcomes and the quirks of human judgment.
Florence at the summer shore hotel dances every weekend and after a moonlit encounter a blond haired boy took her fraternity pin. She advertised in the soul paper asking the owner to call for the pin, revealing the social mishap at the resort. This item mixes a social anecdote with a note on non metallic minerals used in rubber goods.
A terse catalog style line from the New York Herald notes playful wordplay on definitions and a geographic remark that volcanoes cluster in Guatemala and Java. The snippet blends a riddle feel with a geographic observation, reflecting the era’s newspaper texture.
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