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Newspaper
Lander Evening Post
Location
Lander, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1921
Page
4
Local paper notes photographers available for Christmas portraits and promotes gift items from Lander Furniture and Hardware Co and M. N. Baldin Co. Sproul urged readers to act quickly. Highlights include a 20 percent cash discount on Kuppenheimer suits for men and young men.
Listing of property for sale in Lander including two Main street lots, a cemetery, a lime quarry with machinery, a dwelling, and Hudson lots with a boiler. Also notices of toys from Sutherland Gift Shop, watches from Brawley, and a $18 to $25 overcoat sale by M N Baldwin Co. Lost items include a white collie and a brown leather pocket-book. Sproul Studio advertises Christmas photo services.
Wee A. J. Brawley advertises a selection of home goods including heaters, carpet, sweeper, oil stones, hoe and rake. The notice urges customers to order now to ensure delivery before Christmas.
The project claims to whiten fabrics safely for users, stating it will not injure the hands of the falsha. Details on method or origin are not provided in the readable text.
New York reports a highly controlled aerial torpedo developed for the United States army and navy air services. In secret tests over New York and two eastern states the craft flew thousands of miles in multiple flights. Officials say it could devastate cities with incendiaries and gases, while flying unmanned.
Sixteen year old Paulina Henkel of New York is described as the most decorated young woman in the United States for wartime service. She reportedly raised 4 800 000 during five war loan drives and has many medals cups and trophies from admirers.
A South Dakota warden in the Bad Lands district patrols in a motor truck with a rear cage containing hounds. He uses released trapdoors to unleash the dogs, pursuing coyotes for a bounty system in a scientifically guided hunt.
The article reports that Westen, Ia mother Mrs McComba has a fifth set of twins in eight years, with all ten children healthy. It also notes Mrs Annie Forbes of Bronx City as mother of triplets, and another Mrs McCombs resident of Sacramento Cal with two twin sets. It mentions Edward Myler wounded in a shooting incident and a misprinted line about an eye injury.
A Tropical Diseases Prevention Association expedition will study vaccination based control for sleeping sickness. Four physicians and two veterinary specialists will operate over two and a half years in Uganda and later the Belgian Congo with aims to extend to Rhodesia and the Sudan.
In a New York court record a 1874 marriage settlement reveals a $250,000 mortgage gift from Jennie Jerome to George Charles Spencer Churchill and Thomas M. Foote for Lady Churchill and her husband. Trustees held the mortgage and paid $10,000 yearly, with the principal to be divided between Winston Churchill and John Strange Spencer Churchill after her death last June.
80 000 saved from death as tuberculosis death rate falls to 114 per 100 000 and saves 60 000 lives this year, per National Tuberculosis Association. Calgary reports the largest wild duck shot by Capt Alexander Martin near Morrin Alta, measuring 81 2 inches bill to feet and 41 inches wing to wing. Cheyenne prohibits permits to kill 100 antelope over two years, allowing 60 bull moose killings instead.
In Roanoke the seven year old Wan Russell Brith was arrested as a horse thief and turned over to a probation officer. The case is noted as the youngest ever brought before the court in this jurisdiction.
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