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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1921
Page
3
A fragmentary report highlights Carthage and Burnside football figures including Hazelwood and Hazel s as standout team members. The text references coaching staff and practice trends with limited readable details on timing or venue.
Blandinsville hosts a football clash as a number of local players such as Glenn Houtchens Earnie Anderson John Kipling Wendell Stickle Boyd Stronghurst Maurice White Glenn Bunch and others step forward to deliver a robust performance. Large crowds support the matchup promising an exciting game on the field.
Col. B. M. Chipperfield of Illinois, a former at large congressman, was urged by supporters to seek the vacancy caused by Senator Mason's death. In Washington, he acknowledged the push but said he would weigh the decision and not announce yet. He cited party faction troubles in Illinois and hoped for a unified GOP.
Dr. Leo H. Baekeland warns that sun driven photochemistry under chlorophyll enables synthesis of sugars and plastics, linking life to light. He predicts a new era of chemistry and notes coal, oil, and natural gas are ancient light energy stored by past life. He asks who will harness sun energy for storage batteries and plant like synthesis.
Official figures from the ministry of labor show in 1920 France recorded 628,860 marriages and 159,700 more births than deaths, with births rising and deaths falling since 1918 as the population remains reduced by the war.
Paul Gross of Cincinnati is under arrest for bigamy after confessing four marriages. He said booze led him to marry multiple women including Indianapolis and Cincinnati wives, with Miss Ferris his current spouse he hopes remains with him despite past drunken weddings. A separate report notes 12-year-old John Hawyle of Flint died from shock and burns when his kite wire touched a high tension line.
Kansas State researchers report vitamin levels in milk and eggs hinge on animals’ diet. Dry feed low in vitamins yields poor quality milk and weak chicks, risking substantial losses in poultry and calves. Water soluble and fat soluble vitamins were lacking in milk, while anti-scorbutic content remained sufficient.
George oanirseh, a French aviator, photographed after a record landing from a flight of 84 776 feet, claiming a world height. Maj Rudolph Schroeder, US Army, previously set 86 202 feet over Dayton last year. Thermometer reportedly read 100 degrees below zero during the Bourget field flight.
An expedition to Wicki in the Paumotu group near Papoose, Tahiti, returned empty handed after weeks seeking stolen gold plate ingots and jewels said to be buried there. Reports say another expedition with living apparatus may go back, but experts doubt results. The tale links to a Peruvian church heist and a dying sailor in Sydney, N S W.
Constable finds several thousand quarts of moonshine in a haystack on the burned premises of John Organnischick in Washington Parish. Bursting bottles covered the ground around the blaze as investigators searched the site.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a gentle laxative that works overnight without stomach upset or cramps. It claims a 10 cent price per box and suggests even children will like it.
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