Life in the Mountains of Wild New Mexico
Dwight Echler writes from Rudioso New Mexico about mountain living 4000 feet above Roswell. He describes cool dry cold, a 14x16 pine cabin with stove and porch, plans to move to a warmer 10x24 cabin near a post office, and daily life including food prices and local sights. Lorraine and Dwight express relative contentment and longing for home.
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New Mexico
Rudioso
Mama and Papa
Lola
Carl's
Roswell
Dwight
Clifton’s
White Mountain Inn
Fremont
Montpelier
Lorraine
A. R. Woodard
Cleburne
Texas
EAGLE
Bess
Value of a single toad rises with pest control gains
The department of agriculture estimates the economic value of one toad at 19.44 dollars for May, June, and July. This figure reflects the toad’s role in destroying cutworms and other injurious insects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Telephone from moving trolley car demonstrated
A New York electric railway line reported a call made from a moving trolley car using the trolley wire as a carrier for a second current. The distance exceeded three miles, marking a notable early achievement in wireless-like trolley communication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Electric Railway Company
Well Known Resident Isehower Dies After Illness
Mrs. Bert Isenhower died Friday at Lutheran hospital Fort Wayne after a short illness. Surrounded by family, her husband Mr Isenhower and daughters were present, with her brother William Rouden of Springfield Indiana also at the bedside. Funeral services were held at home and Evangelical church with Rev. O N Braun and his wife singing, interment in the old cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Isenhower
Lutheran Hospital
Fort Wayne
Isenhower
William Rouden
Springfield
Inl
L. N. Klink
Evangelical Church
O. N. Braun
Dynamiters use asbestos gear to blast oil well blaze
In Long Beach, California, a crew of oil well fire fighters wearing asbestos clothing set off a 100 pound dynamite charge wrapped in asbestos paper on an asbestos chair near a burning well. The blast cut the flame column and blew out the fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
Calif
Sunday church services and famine relief offering
On Sunday January 22 the church held Sunday School at 9 30 a m public worship at 10 45 a m class meeting at 11 45 a m Epworth League at 6 15 p m and a second worship service at 7 15 p m Pastor L W Kemper announces a $104 00 famine relief offering from last Sunday has been sent to aid starving children
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Epworth League
Christ
L. W. Kemper
Two New Granddaughters for Deller Family
Two granddaughters welcomed by William Deller and wife of Scott township born last Thursday to their daughters Mrs. Chas Swager and Mrs. Lewis Mounts.
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William Deller
Scott Township
Chas. Swager
Lewis Mounts
Office Cat Says: Economy and Warnings in a Moral Note
A Columbus Indiana jury satire links a sheriff's restaurant choice to pay. the piece urges economizing by action not talk. It muses on time, losses from spending, and warns against fads while urging focus on work over worry and avoiding propaganda about drink dangers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ind
Barrel Post Office Serves Men of Sea
A water tight oak barrel chained to a cliff at Cape Virgin in the Strait of Magellan acts as a mail drop for ships passing the strait. Sailors check for letters and send mail on to the Horn while money and valuables have also moved through this post office without any reported breach of trust.
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Mother Carey
Cape Virgin
Strait of Magellan
Farmers Institutes Planned for Orland and Fremont
Information from Purdue confirms dates will be set soon for farmers institutes to be held in Fremont and Orland. The events were postponed due to fears of smallpox in Orland and scarlet fever in Fremont. State speakers will be arranged and announced once plans are finalized.
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Farmers’ Institute Department
Purdue
Fremont
Orland
Miss Alice Jenkins Buried At South Butler
Funeral services for Miss Alice Jenkins aged 24 were conducted Sunday at 1 p.m. by Rev. L W Kemper at South Butler near the Jenkins home six miles north of Quincy Michigan. Interment followed in Camden cemetery. Miss Jenkins died of tuberculosis and was known in Fremont. The family formerly lived in York and Ray before moving to the Quincy area two years ago. She spent one year at Fremont High School.
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L. W. Kemper
Alice Jenkins
Bert Jenkins
South Butler
Jenkins
Quincy
Mich
Camden
Miss Jenkins
Fremont
York
Ray
Dress Form Demonstrations At Three Indiana Communities
Purdue University specialist Mrs. L. W. McKinley will lead three home made dress form demonstrations in Pleasant Lake Orland and Jamestown township January 24 25 open to the public under Women’s Study Club Child’s Welfare Society and local hosts. The sessions aim to answer dress form questions and invite all interested ladies to attend.
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L. W. McKinley
Purdue University
Pleasant Lake
Women’s Study Club
B. P. Sprague
Child’s Welfare Society of
Orland
Waterproofed paper used for purses and gas meter diaphragms
A new waterproofing method enables paper to be used for small articles such as purses and as a substitute for leather or rubber in making diaphragms for gas meters and similar items.
Thrift Plan Aims To Help Denver Newsies Save
Denver oil magnate Sidney Keoughan proposes saving accounts for about 800 newsboys under sixteen with a Christmas prize structure. Top savers in 1921 receive $20 each, with cascading prizes down to $1 for 100 boys. Christmas 1922 prizes to be doubled. Knoxville police uncover whisky well in residential area. Ellensburg man taps railroad signals to run a still. he is discovered.
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Denver
Colo
Sidney Keoughan
Mr. Keoughan
Knoxville
Tenn
Robs
Ellensburg
Wash
Sam Harris
Sam
Butler residents wintering in Florida and local civic notes
Twenty Butler Indiana residents are spending winter in Florida while Indiana enjoys mild weather. Hillsdale's Lincoln Club plans a banquet the first since before the war. Garrett Indiana will host an artificial ice factory next summer. Philadelphia minted seventy five thousand silver dollars the first in eighteen years. Michigan bakers fined for selling short weight bread. Fire damaged F L Burdick home in Sturgis Michigan the loss about three thousand dollars. G H Reese Land Co formed by Gid Reese in real estate. Charlie S Smith former district prosecutor named deputy for DeKalb county. Rev B D Beck Grace M E church South Bend to speak at Coldwater banquet February 8. Bert Campbell new DeKalb county road superintendent.
One Lone Trout Stops Coal Mine in Lanarkshire
About 600 workers lost a day’s work at a Lanarkshire colliery when a single trout blocked the water supply for the boilers. The lift cage couldn’t reach the pithead because the boilers failed. The trout weighed one pound six ounces. Production resumed the next day.
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London
Lanarkshire
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Dwight Echlers
Pine Cabin
Hills
Geo. W. Grim
Dwight Echler
Fort Wayne Hospital
Methodist Church
Yankee Heroes
Samuel Woodfill
Cieneral Pershing
Woodfill
Legion of Honor
Wnse
Avoir Dupois
Barrel Post Office
MEN OF Sea
Farmers’ Institutes For
Fremont High School
Jamestown, Pleasant Lake, and
North
Queensland
Newsies
Butler
Florida
Indiana
Hillsdale
Lincoln Club
Garrett, Ind
Philadelphia
Michigan
F. L. Burdick
Sturgis, Mich
Gid Reese
G. H. Reese Land Co
Chas. S. Smith
DeKalb County
B. D. Beck
Grace M. E. Church
South Bend
Coldwater
Bert Campbell
Missouri
Ela
Fremont Co-Operative Association
Lone Trout
Mickie
Charles Sugh
First State Bank
Ness
Fremont, Indiana
LUCUS
Mertz
Fremont Lumber & Coal Co
Fremont Lumber
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