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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1921
Page
7
Adventure romance by Randall Parrish unfolds as an American diplomat torn between love and a vast revolutionary plot. A famous crook label and a conspirator dead from a stab with a silver dagger hatpin drive the hero to unravel the conspiracy and win the mysterious woman.
I wander through a curious shop and buy a lacquered jewel box. A hidden modern note in Spanish hints at a revolutionary plot tied to a ship named Watonia and a cryptic agent numbered 108. The discovery chills me and I resolve to investigate, blended with a hunger for adventure.
The narrator pieces together a suspected South American conspiracy tied to Krantz and Kulb Krantz & Co on Wall Street. He links an agitator named Waldron to the case, notes hotel guests P S Horner and Gustavo Alva who left a mysterious box, and recalls bank cashier Clement Breckenridge confirming the firm’s influence in South American finance and its hidden sympathies. Waldron’s whereabouts vanish as investigators search for Gans Street and the box’s rightful owner.
An American Legion Weekly editorial says Germany failed to sway American opinion with the horror on the Rhine stunt. It mocks the Von Mach approach as clumsy and insincere, noting that 100,000 Americans died fighting a German foe and that suspicions about a hyphenated peace are unfounded.
The American Legion post of Fredericksburg Virginia transformed a two headed juvenile cow into a working capital rise from 100 to 1500 dollars. The calf toured at the Virginia state fair in Richmond drawing fees. A circus offered 150 dollars for the animal, which was accepted. The post plans to reinvest the proceeds once a similar security is found.
The American Legion’s activity in mining districts of southeast Kansas helps ease labor and ex-service tensions. In Scammon District 14 miners capped an eight hour day with a Legion ball hosted by Francis Ellison Tost. Clarence Smith Post No 272 at Weir has grown from 21 members in 1920 to 112 enrolled in 1921 so far.
F. W. Galbraith Jr led American Legion members nationwide in opposing pro German and hyphenated efforts to split from allies in World War I. Twenty five thousand New York citizens attended an All American Meeting for God and Country at Madison Square Garden. Legion actions blocked Von Mach meetings in Philadelphia and Indianapolis. The Indiana and Kentucky posts urged lawful measures to stop Boche propagandists, with posts in Chicago Cleveland Omaha Cincinnati and Milwaukee joining in opposition.
Joe Kaufman, a former Army sergeant and American Legion member from Minneapolis, sings the first male trio simultaneously using overtones. His teacher at the MacPhail School notes he can separate tenor, bass, and baritone parts within one voice. Experts are puzzled by the skill and its rarity beyond a lone female case with a single distinguishable overtone.
A Akron American Legion member spins a playful tale about Burt resisting a bonus bill debate. The narrator derides critics as bigoted birds and buccaneers, while Burt and his bride Beulah hold to belief that a benevolent group will win support and bring bacon back to Burt.
Mrs. J A Burrington of Los Angeles says Tanlac cured her lifelong indigestion and stomach trouble. She recounts childhood hardship, influenza illness, and four bottles that rebuilt her strength, appetite, and weight, thanking Tanlac as a dependable medicine from leading druggists.
A fragment reflects a Louisville Courier-Journal quote about jazz and a Perry deanery remark. It notes Callao near Lima Peru as one of the safest roadsteads globally and adds a curious line about baboons throwing stones at enemies.
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