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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
2
Valley City weekly Times Record publishes a subscription rate of 2.00 dollars per year in advance with delivery through the local post office as a second class matter.
The article notes Senator McCumber's two relief bills for crop failure areas, including a five million dollar seed fund loan program and loan repayment subsidies. It also covers North Dakota gasoline quality, War Finance Corporation loans, and state fiscal reforms under Governor Nestos.
The excerpt recalls Henry Watterson known as Old Marse Henry a fiery journalist with Civil War service as aide to Generals Forrest and Polk. He edited the Chattanooga Rebel traveled as a newspaper man and merged the Courier Journal in 1868 later shaping national journalism with bold editorials.
A tense Chicago night ends with two bold kidnappings on State and Madison and a $25 000 hold up. Wealthy inventor Arthur C. Buch was kidnapped from Des Moines, slugged, robbed and left tied to his car before being taken to Deaconist hospital in critical condition. Detroit manufacturer John A. McRae and wife Edith, along with John D. Allen, are other victims. A fifth man linked to the McRae party remains at large.
A Christmas night surge in crime left two dead and two wounded in New York. Nelson Levy died in a Bronx cigar store holdup where customers were held and two detectives were wounded attempting arrests. Saloon keeper Leon Sottile was killed at a Bronx bar as bandits fled. Philip Honeywood, nephew of the Earl of Devon, was kidnapped and bound after a car holdup near Woodcliffe Lake, New Jersey.
Official orders were issued for the release of Eugene V. Debs and twenty-three political prisoners from federal prisons. A White House conference between President Harding and Attorney General Daugherty set the final decision to release the prisoners tomorrow, Christmas Day.
Henry Watterson editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal died in a Jacksonville hotel at 6 50 am He was 81 next February He came south for the winter due to failing health Bronchial trouble caused his death His wife son Henry Watterson Jr and daughter Mrs William Miller were at his bedside Funeral plans not set likely to be buried in Jefferson Kentucky Watterson known as the grand old man of journalism and creator of the phrase too hell with the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns
A compact excerpt discusses faith as a spiritual perception and as a watchword of popular movements. It cites Henan and Augustine Birrell and mentions the seven legions aiding early churches, noting a historical religious context.
Jim Wilder leads two sea scout training camps in Mario s Massachusetts co operated by Tahor academy. Seven boys and a scentmaster traveled from Port Arthur Texas for the sessions which included cruising Buzzards Bay. The second camp enrollment surpassed the first as the group prepared for Plymouth 300th anniversary ceremonies. The sea scouting division has grown over 50 percent as boys over fifteen gain experience and endurance. The article also notes long cultivated crops including eggplant cucumber and asparagus.
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