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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1919
Page
6
Report exposes oil well wildcatting scams in Texas where swindlers profit from land leases and fake drilling. Describes tactics from land leasing to staged shows of oil and gas, leaving communities struck with losses while fakers escape with money.
A stark image portrays a starving Armenian mother and her sick child, driven by hunger through a desolate region. The piece notes these people suffer from aftereffects of the great war and state that U S aid has partially saved them.
A dying motorman named Alexander Rabb applied the brakes to his car to avert a plunge over the Hudson Palisades in Edgewater New Jersey. The sudden stop threw 30 passengers from their seats, and Rabb was found dead from heart disease.
An action by a German agent seeking 64 000 damages is being heard before the Zurich tribunal. The case involves accusations of defamation by French military authorities and hints at misleading actions by German agents. The proceedings shed light on wartime methods and activities.
Reports from foreign missionaries at the Interchurch World Movement headquarters say war veterans in the Orient and Africa seek educated wives. One account notes a young Moslem sheik offering to trade four native wives for an educated American girl, reflecting demand beyond available supply.
Landlords in Kansas City bar newlyweds from rentals placing them with children dogs and birds. One landlord claims brides need five years to learn housework including opening grocery packages and handling papers roaches and other messes.
The federal Department of Agriculture asks farmers to study census questions and schedules ahead of the January 1 1920 enumeration. The census will cover farm tenure acreage values debts and expenses plus new items on drainage equipment marketing and timber for 7 000 000 farms housing one third of the U S population.
In Backusberg Calloway County Kentucky F H Guler and son Dennis recount a dog alarm that led to a copperhead brood discovery. The dog attacked a four foot chicken snake that had swallowed a two and a half foot copperhead containing seven newly hatched young snakes, with possible more hidden in the area.
Mr and Mrs Leon Rathbun of Grover Pennsylvania took an automobile ride with a neighbor. On returning home they learned they had twins born in the car then delivered at a farmhouse. The first twin, a boy, and the second, a girl, survived with the mother.
Louis Michaels, who drove a Milwaukee candy wagon 24 years ago, receives a letter with a dollar to repay a stolen cookie. Accompanying pamphlets on theology and a repentant note quote Jesus on repentance and entering heaven, signaling the thief seeks forgiveness.
In Vienna two German officers chose garbage wagon work over stores or offices paying 400 marks a month. With tips from households they earn over 1900 marks monthly. The job is kept secret from their old associates and the high pay helps them mingle in aristocratic circles.
Adrien Thumerel and his fiancée detonated thirty five pounds of melanite at Chateau Thierry Exrance. The blast killed both and was heard for miles. Thumerel faced charges of stealing dams from stores bound for war prisoners.
Langs Shoe Store moves opposite Winthrop Theatre and local notices highlight visitors, school kindness, studio photos, millinery displays, church charity, piano tuning, James Lurie’s Leon Quartette, Metcalf family winters in Winthrop, Daughters of Maine December meeting, and upcoming town dances with Bay Rubbers at Lang's.
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