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Newspaper
Jasper News
Location
Jasper, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1922
Page
3
Berlin banks attract despairing Germans and Americans chasing dollars as rumors of the mark's decline spark panic. The piece describes anxious crowds at openings, checks and drafts traded for marks, and the torment of deciding whether to cash in now or wait for a better rate.
A rustic cottage is offered for sale by a woman described as covered with creepers. The notice appears in an English paper and is part of a Boston transcription.
Wilson City in Mississippi County Arkansas operates as a one-man town with no courthouse or police. Land taxes are paid by the owner Robert E. Lee Wilson who also rents all homes and funds schooling for many young people. The town spans 27 by 8 miles with 40 000 acres of land and 18 cotton plantations producing vast timber and agricultural goods.
A Westminster Gazette telegram reports a man in the village of Opladen who, weary of life, ate a shell fuse and caused an explosion that killed him and injured his fiancee, his mother, and friends who tried to intervene.
A snippet notes a Sri Lankan student name to be written for University of London matriculation forms. The name appears difficult to pronounce in Ceylon and is presented as Ir. in Nanay okkarngodokandearachchige Bormanis de Silva Wijesekers.
The census bureau reports more women than men are leaving farms for other fields, based on the 1920 census analysis. Farm population ratio is 100.1 males to 100 females vs 104 to 100 for the whole country. farm dwellers total 81,014,269 males and 15,117,091 females. About 40.5 percent of farm people are 21 or older, 24.7 percent are 10 to 20, and 25.7 percent are under ten. The shift reflects many 21+ leaving farms for other residence.
Captain William Appleby of Britain, blind from Ypres and wounded twenty times, attends the Inter Allied Veterans convention in New Orleans with the American Legion. On a train in Indianapolis he encounters Alfred Ernest Evans, a Lancashire Fusiliers veteran, whom he recognizes by voice after twenty two years apart. His daughter Olga, nineteen, accompanies him as his eyes on the trip.
Granville Gude of Washington DC, a member of the American Legion, stunned critics by winning Junior and Intermediate association events at a Middle States regatta after just six weeks of rowing. He dazzled in sculling and is tipped to capture a national title soon.
A humorous exchange from the American Legion Weekly features a young bride asking about her husband and an older married woman reply, noting the husband works hard and she sees him about an hour a day. The punchline reveals the hour is the only time she shares.
All prisoners in Jacksonville Florida, both white and black, who were serving misdemeanor sentences and who had fought in World War as American soldiers were released with suspended sentences to enable their participation in an Armistice Day parade.
In a terse exchange, Total Blank claims Krige knows little, Krone counters that he cannot even wean. An American toglon note frames the quarrel as a sharp political clash with unclear stakes.
Best informed Legion man Joe Sparke of Columbia has been named chairman of the Legion’s national rehabilitation committee. Owsley praised Sparks for strong cooperation with the United States Veterans Bureau, noting his role as Legion liaison at the Fifth US Veterans Bureau district headquarters. During Sparks’ term the district was rated 92 percent efficient, among the highest of 14 districts, while 2 100 veterans were rated totally temporarily disabled and 490 claims adjudicated. Sparks, born in Laurence County South Carolina thirty seven years ago, later moved to Columbia and worked as a newspaper reporter and city editor of the Columbia State before enlisting in WWI. After service he joined a New York life insurance company, with Legion work in Atlanta and New York.
Veterans in Kansas City government hospital and Leavenworth National Military Home cheer the American Legion Auxiliary Hospital Cookie Jar project as doctors and patients share smiles. Southern states show lead in Legion membership gains, blamed on increased interest after the New Orleans convention and the influence of Victory Day in France. Armistice Day gains legal status as a holiday in several states with Legion backing.
Dedicated New Capitol in Lincoln Nebraska was dedicated by J Oweley national commander of the American Legion.
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