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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1921
Page
3
A satirical column riffs on money, misfortune, and newspapers. It jokes about a Dallas News divorce suit, a morning paper stereotype, and dance inspectors blaming jazz for bad behavior. It also ridicules a Chicago police case involving a wife sale and a lawyer who legendarily orchestrated it.
A historical analysis links a string of bank failures in North Dakota to political battles between the Townley led league and the Independent Voters Association. It describes the Bank of North Dakota, public funds, bond issues, and a nationwide bank run as part of a larger struggle over state control and financial policy. The piece frames the turmoil as a cautionary tale with Michigan as a contrasting reference.
Fragments describe sea lore from Friday departures to the Flying Dutchman and a prophecy haunting two American tugs bound for New York. The tale notes fear among old salts, a priest on board, and a predicted doom that led crews to desert in Quebec, though the prophecy itself is treated as frostwater superstition.
The article argues aluminum will replace wood for packing and shipping due to vast supply and cost advantages. It notes 6,000,000 cards last year and envisions aluminum dominating goods boxes, trains, and even housing, as a strategic resource for future generations.
The Empress of Japan recently carried the first Hindoo woman and her twelve year old son to Vancouver as the province’s pioneer Hindoo family. The husband had earlier gone to India, but with the lifting of the ban on Hindoo women they returned to seek opportunity. The father plans to send the boy to Vancouver public schools.
A gilt Napoleon dessert service with bee cipher, including two sugar sifters, four spoons, tongs, 24 small spoons, 24 forks and knives with porcelain handles, formerly Emperor Napoleon’s property, was sold in a London auction house. The nobleman owner’s name is not disclosed.
United States forest products laboratory tests show preservatives must be water soluble to produce a toxic solution, with some cases as low as one millionth. Sodium fluoride and titanium carbide are freely soluble, while certain oxides are sparingly soluble, appearing in metal reservoirs to feed slowly into the wood.
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