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Newspaper
Remington Press
Location
Remington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1922
Page
7
In Mobile a colored teacher Miss Violet Robinson joined Mrs Clarver and family for dinner. Mr Clarver devoured food in a race against time while Mrs Clarver and her children ate vigorously. Mrs Clarver scolded the guest but then struck the table with a fork handle declaring manners are nothing and eating is everything.
A passage discusses artificial languages Volapuk and Esperanto, noting Esperanto’s growth with international congresses, thousands of periodicals, and supporters in commerce and science. It contrasts English’s global rise, supported by trade, diplomacy, and American public schooling, predicting English may become the world language within this century.
The essay surveys how men of different nationalities conceal wealth. It notes the English carry coins in pockets, the American uses a long wallet, the French prefer a leather purse, the German favors silk embroidery, and others hide funds in garments or under clothing. It mentions South American and Russian habits as well.
An Englishman William Rutherford proposed the time lock in 1857, with later U S inventors Hlobrook and Kish proposing another design. The first successful time lock devices used on markers were the Sergeant and Yale locks, released in 1875.
A bronze tablet embedded in a large boulder honors Commander Frederick W. Galbraith Jr of the American Legion. It notes his death in an automobile accident near Indianapolis on June 9, 1921 during active Legion service and records a recent dedication by Legion headquarters officials led by National Commander Hanford MacNider with Auxiliary president Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart present.
John Shoemaker a Phoenix area recruit nicknamed the Kid Corporal has secured a presidential appointment to West Point. Enlisting at fourteen, he served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France and later in the Fiji infantry, with Major Claude Decatur Jones supporting his bid through the American Legion after his evacuation from Phoenix Union High School.
The American Legion outlines its employment program used to aid unemployed veterans. Poland seeks a peace-time version of the plan after receiving thanks from T Heinke of the consulate general. The drive has placed over 400000 veterans in work in its first week, with about 500000 in permanent positions now, amid economic hardship and veteran displacement.
Otto Kahn the New York financier objects to the era’s bathing fashions describing maillots as inappropriate. He points to a Coronado beach scene where a young woman in a black silk maillot runs along the shore.
A brief item notes she makes a good showing as a winner, with a playful quip that she falters when she leaves the water.
Mrs Dingle frets in a southern railway car as the couple races toward a potentially weak bridge. Mr Dingle explains the urgency and urges sleep while the moonlit landscape passes by. The excerpt ends with anticlimactic social notes on taxes and a grim joke about plagues and axes.
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