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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
3
Aberdeen D D Aug 16 three bandits were shot down in a running fight with citizens over a robbery of $100 near the railroad tracks. A posse pursued the robbers exchanging shots. the bandits were killed one by one while no pursuers were harmed.
In Dublin on August 16 a battle at Ranturk left one soldier and four Sinn Feiners dead after a three hour attack by Sinn Feiners attempting to seize a guarded airplane. The incident occurred as troops repelled the assault.
Aberdeen August 16 Robert Erdman a farmer near Randolph was scalded to death when his threshing engine exploded in a wheat field due to boiler trouble.
A report by Hal B. Fullerton on postwar French agriculture finds trenches and shell holes deepened soils, exposing minerals and organic matter. He notes lush vegetation in shell holes and stresses farmer cooperation, tractor loans, and model farms to restore fertility, with resilient rural families adapting despite hardship.
Washington The government s ordinary expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30 totaled 3 408 343 481 with payments on the public debt at 17 038 089 723 making a grand total of 23 441 385 204 The War Department led with 1 610 587 380 and the Navy 736 021 456 while the Shipping Board stood at 530 565 649 Ordinary outlays peaked in July 1919 at 976 273 570 and were lowest in February with 205 457 433 for the period cited.
The Visual Educational association opened headquarters in Washington and seeks congressional funds to back a national movie program for public schools. The plan would share costs equally between federal and state governments, with an estimated total of 19.5 million dollars, to be funded in installments. In Tacoma, a hen at the Western Washington Experiment Station in Puyallup set an egg laying record by laying daily for 78 days and producing a double egg on day 79.
Writ issued while dealer Sam Page from Bucyros, O Sam Page left wagon outside a butcher shop. He returned to find the harness missing and the horse standing calmly between the shafts. Constable Adolph Rinker delivered the replevin while the owner was inside buying meat.
Miss Blate Goddard describes army rules forbidding flowers on grave markers in American cemeteries in France. Flowers may be placed nearby or cut flowers, but not on plots, ensuring uniform, impressive rows of crosses at Romagne, Bony, Belleau Woods, and Fere-en-Tardenois.
In 1909 Kermit Roosevelt stepped up as official photographer after the professional quit, and he excelled in big game and wildlife shots. William Hornaday praises his elephant herd image taken from a tree perch, noting lighting was challenging but workable. Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Scribner’s editors celebrated the achievement.
Several American commissions report the United States leads in civilian aircraft orders and purchases, aerial transport lines, daily mail flights, and mail volume. They note military planes can be converted for mail service, enabling use of service aircraft to meet immediate demand manufacturers cannot yet satisfy.
In a Hudson restaurant a strikingly polished woman entered with royal bearing, dressed brown from head to toe and refined in manner. She sat, eliciting whispers as she spoke in a high pitched East Side voice and ordered an onion omelette, which arrived as she joked while eating.
In Grant county seven year old Edwin assists his farmer father by telling a neighbor a bull calf will be ready next day. The child announced with importance that our bull has a new calf and you can have it tomorrow, according to a note from Indianapells News.
Elinor Dawes Isham and Darrel Isham married after hardship and illness. Isham’s risky investment collapses while Elinor pursues singing. Wade, a friend, reveals a copartnership profit later returned by Elinor, who thanks him as their shared past blooms into renewed affection.
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