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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1921
Page
6
The period piece reports on a world grappling with cholera in the Volga region and wartime disarray. It notes U.S. relief efforts, French and British diplomacy, and prep for disarmament talks amid Russian famine, disease, and political tension.
A sweeping list of Ohio incidents and updates appears, noting Dover city employee salary cuts, multiple accidental deaths, crimes, and local government changes. Names include Helen Veach, Angeline Keer, Edward Thompson, and Jacob Karch among others, with regional references to Oberlin Cadiz Cleveland Findlay Columbus and Dayton.
A NY news item describes a double Japanese wedding and features a British air force officer in full dress with a comic opera style uniform. The piece also juggles human interest notes on a baby and wandering anecdotes about home care and gun cleaning, all in a detached sensational tone.
Ned Gourdin of Harvard, hailed as a premier track field figure, reportedly shattered the world broad jump record with a leap of 27 feet and an unknown inches during the Harvard meet with Yale Harvard and Oxford Cambridge teams at Harvard Stadium.
The Knights of Columbus announced a broad drive to raise one million dollars for welfare work in Italy, urged by Pope Benedict. Supreme Advocate Joseph Pelletier said funds would come from popular subscriptions in the United States and support Italian youth development. The effort aims to establish an American service center in Rome and expand the order’s work in Italy.
The Russian trade commission announces a new plan to resume trade with Germany on a gold pay basis. Russia seeks direct German manufacturing deals, cutting out intermediaries, to obtain needed manufactured goods for postwar rehabilitation. Exports and imports data are cited, with England and America as top suppliers and lumber and flax as major exports. Russia also notes large timber stock ready for shipment from Latvian ports.
A collection of brief notes covers varied topics from porcelain deposits in Austria reviving its industry to a toy wagon phonograph, a Paris station for 100000 words per hour, interest in ready built houses in Europe, new bread text, and safety signs in Seattle. Also noted are an English pontoon design, bark as timing material, barking life boat wicker covering, tiny dogs in muffs, Japan’s 14 cities over 100000, Tokyo largest, 1920 production of pig iron and steel, and changes since 1919.
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