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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1922
Page
4
Charles Calvert confronts his son Edwin over an engagement to Della, a plain young woman. Calvert dismisses Edwin and suspends his allowance, while Della faces emotional strain, and the father contemplates reshaping his house to value steadiness over youthful whimsy.
An army officer who knew he had claimed exemption from military service challenged the right of a man to wear the Croix de Guerre. The defender asserted he had the best right to wear the medal, while the other claimed he had whipped the man who was It, with Byance cited in the defense.
The article extols canning as a world changing discovery on par with the telephone and airplane. It credits Appert for hermetic sealing and heat sterilization, notes benefits of eliminating seasons, saving surplus, and enabling global access to foods from Alaska to California for households everywhere.
A report from Youth's Companion describes three hundred Armenian orphanage children sharing scarce food. Each child received a small bread piece and a few walnuts twice daily. When learning nearby villages had none, the orphans donated their walnuts, filling a sack to help the starving crowd outside.
The London Opinion notes British civil aviation had no passenger deaths or serious injuries in 1921. It attributes safety to pilot skill, aircraft mechanics, and the aeronautical inspection department along with the controller of aerodromes and licenses, ensuring only first class personnel and equipment carried passengers.
A Parisian Easter egg given to the late czar of Russia contained jewels valued at 10000 dollars. A revolutionary had sent another egg stuffed with dynamite timed to explode, but secret police stopped the plot by opening the first egg and uncovering the danger.
A Historical note cites Scientific American explaining that higher building features raise taxes. The piece notes a controversial levy would tax stair carpets and elevators in apartment houses, making users of these features pay more taxes.
Harvey Ackers, president of County Partners Bank, faces a crisis as four runs deplete deposits. Old Joe, the loyal watchman, is caught loading cash into a bag from the vault. Ackers spares Joe, pays back a thousand, and orders secrecy, planning to catch the night train to St Louis after the incident. Meanwhile Iowa votes save nearly $38,320 on license plate contracts for 1923.
The Marine Corps institute run by the federal government provides free correspondence courses to every man enlisting in the marines. Current enrollment exceeds 3,000 marine students.
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