Mystery Turmoil Near Port Termed Flighty Tale
A garbled report from Durham describes a bizarre scene at an airport where a house cat and a dog are mentioned amid noisy confusion. Officials investigate a prank or accident action with unclear motives.
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Newspaper
Jacksons Hole Courier
Location
Jackson, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1920
Page
2
A garbled report from Durham describes a bizarre scene at an airport where a house cat and a dog are mentioned amid noisy confusion. Officials investigate a prank or accident action with unclear motives.
Alec Adair once a bandit and ally of Jesse James, now a gray haired Denver worker, recounts a life across frontier camps from Leavenworth to Denver. Born in Zanesville Ohio, he joined the James gang after meeting James in 1874, helped at the Munsey train robbery, later found spiritual birth with the Salvation Army in Wichita and settled into missionary marriage.
Guetay Stoney of Montgomeryville was awakened when a goat butted him over the rail of a pigsty. Porkers swarmed him causing cuts and bruises before his son drove off the animals and rescue him.
A distressed woman accompanied by two men and a baby traveled from Columbus in a car after soliciting aid from stores in Calvary, claiming her party was stranded and planning to visit relatives near Indianapolis. Local authorities note the group appeared headed toward Kentucky.
An unreadable OCR fragment mentions a jail guard incident and subsequent events. No clear names, places, dates, or outcomes are discernible from the provided text.
A sweeping waterfront program aims to remove 32 old piers and replace them with 14 larger piers plus wide slips and marginal streets. The project, costing about 50 million dollars and to take ten years, includes warehouses and rear tracks and may be funded by city land ownership and a vehicular tunnel to New Jersey.
The Dock Commission outlines a modernization plan for New York’s waterfront. Fifteen piers from 950 to 1,026 feet long will replace dilapidated structures. Each pier will be spaced 275 to 300 feet apart with widths of 100, 125, or 160 feet as freight handling capabilities expand.
The piece compares Rome under Diocletian in 300 A D with contemporary price spikes. It notes a decree fixing prices and wages, condemns profiteers, and urges boycott as a remedy. It lists projected price hikes on aluminum goods nickel copper iron ware and tableware.
Edna Burlingame barred her husband from a checker game with his brother Shirley in a San Francisco home, claiming neglect. The husband presented a scar from eight years earlier and asked for divorce before Superior Judge John J. Van Nostrand who quipped about penny ante violence.
Will J. Back of Red Wing Minnesota returned to Boonville Missouri for a family reunion at his birthplace. The gathering revisited the old home now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. B A Buck who reside there since 1884. Local relatives from Alissquii joined the event.
New York reports First Sergeant Dan Daly, famed as a two medal of honor recipient, has been placed on the inactive list of the Marine Corps reserve. Daly earned honors in the Boxer Rebellion and Fort Riviere Haiti and received France’s Croix de Guerre and Pershing’s Distinguished Service Cross for World War I bravery.
In Rochester, workers removing bodies from the Pultney street cemetery in Geneva unearthed a large stone jug shaped container. After cleaning years of grime a mark read New Bedford Rum 170 and about two gallons of liquid remained, suggesting the jug once held ten gallons.
A visitor to the Blue Filia reservation in Poncopog Mass found a large rattlesnake den that included a mother and 13 young. The mother defended her offspring to the end, and the young were disposed of after her death, an unusually large family for the area.
Amid Paris turmoil two thousand former American soldiers drift in the city’sApache quarters. Many are destitute, some subsist on charity, and health and safety deteriorate as hope fades. The report portrays a grim postwar odyssey of an army’s leftover, reduced to wandering and poverty.
A fragmented page item outlines a daily contribution schedule for a venue or column titled The Kitchin Cabinet. It mentions bars, wine, and a varied crowd, with unclear dates but an emphasis on regular daily activity and offerings.
The page offers varied recipes and homemaking tips including potato salad dressings with minced onion and almonds, tomato salad with mayonnaise, veal salad with celery, and a mint extract method. It also gives food prep notes on cabbage, beets, cucumbers, and potatoes, plus grooming and household hacks like eyebrow care and fabric care. The mix includes poems, quotes, and quirky lines about safeties, furs, and fashion goods.
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