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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1921
Page
9
Frederick residents receive assurance from Postmaster Williamson that all parcels received by 8 p.m. Saturday will reach recipients before Christmas. He will keep trucks running to empty the local office and urges mailing letters and small packages on Friday to ensure Saturday delivery and avoid Sunday lapse.
Washington reports Commissioner Ky J Haynes told the house appropriations committee that profit enforcement is at a critical stage in Pennsylvania and New York. He seeks 32.5 million more to hire 70 field agents and many clerks, with funds for higher salaries, aiming to “clean up” bootlegging. He cites improved enforcement and urges continued funding, including warehousing stock to reduce illegal withdrawals. In a separate incident, masked men whipped two prisoners after seizing them from a city jail in Doancan, Oklahoma, and warning others to leave Iowa.
Fire swept Langley Field hangars at Newport News Virginia destroying buildings and most of the hangars. The blaze caused extensive damage with limited details on casualties or fire response. Local sources cite widespread destruction and loss of aircraft facilities.
A Basuto girl faces arranged marriage centered on lobola cattle dowry rather than romance. Fathers control unions, dowries determine unions, and even educated youths marry under traditional oversight. Most ceremonies occur at the native church with European dress, ritual feasts, and two days of dancing and music though men and women never dance together.
The report describes how a bottle of smelling salts used after Jack Dempsey was knocked by Georges Carpentier helped revive him. It explains ammonia’s stimulating effect on lungs and heart, its irritant action in strong form, and how fumes trigger rapid bodily responses via nasal and nerve pathways.
A couple fails to rent a furnished house when the landlord fears children will reside. After days of near-matches and several rejections the Browns reveal their children in disguise. The landlord withdraws, then accepts, concluding his stance with a harsh, comic reversal.
National Geographic Magazine notes northern Rhodesia offers suitable farming land with vast grazing tracts and crops such as maize tobacco wheat and citrus. It highlights boom towns Bulawayo and Salisbury with hotels and business houses built for a second Rand era, and mentions existing mines for gold copper zinc and lead.
Mansfield Ohio schools use 37 phonographs across seven schools to teach music. Pupils support the program via a music club, building a library of records with an investment well over a thousand dollars. The project is guided by a special text and overseen by the town music supervisor.
A collage of anecdotes on closed windows in Southern France and a Mercedes-like railway tale from Essen, plus Melba’s retirement remark in Australia. The notes recount a French baron’s chill in May, a director’s hot car that never opened, and a Sudan railway foreman’s grim telegram.
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