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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1924
Page
7
The article notes thieves prefer cash for portability and jewelery for value, with a shift to targeting pay rolls, apartments, and careless victims. It describes new schemes such as following well dressed victims to their homes and a recent street scam where a youth shorted a store and another person stole from the cash register.
Stockholm reports Karl Tiren’s collection of 500 scores and 700 phonograph records revealing Lapp music as personal, non entertainment, with leitmotifs for each entity. Many pieces resemble Wagner, including a bear attack motif linked to Rheingold, and some tunes induce fainting among Lapp women. The archive also includes incantations, laments, paeans, and majestic descriptive pieces.
A statue honoring Commodore John Barry of the U S Navy stands in Franklin Park Washington attracting attention. Designed by John J Boyle it was unveiled May 16 1914 Barry was the first captain to command the first ship bought by the Continental Congress In 1781 Washington placed supreme command of the navy in Barry.
The Tusculum estate near Princeton Pennsylvania, the original home of John Witherspoon signer of the Declaration and sixth College of New Jersey president, was bought at auction by Ariel Pardee for 26000 dollars. The 140 acre manor sits two miles north of Princeton on a knoll amid pines, with Washington once visiting during Congress sessions at Nassau Hall.
Marcel Moreau of San Francisco announced a method to harness the sun’s heat. He credits Archimedes and Buffon for early ideas and describes a four foot diameter bowl of small mirrors with lenses to concentrate sunlight. He claims to regulate the heat to the exact degree desired.
New York. Sailors on small coastal boats from Freeport to Asbury Park fish for scallops by dredging on the ten fathom curve. The practice shares profits among crew, with the skipper taking the boat’s share. Early spring prices reached five dollars a gallon, with typical daily catches around twenty to sixty gallons, averaging three dollars a gallon yearly.
The 900th anniversary of Christianity in Norway will be celebrated in June. Beginning in 1024 with the acceptance of Christian doctrine at Moster church, near Haugesund and Bergen, the event will include festivities and ceremonies of historical note and is expected to be attended by the king of Norway.
In Sir Henry Lucy's will the late "Toby M. P." of Punch is remembered through an annual cigars box passed among guests at Punch staff dinners. Five hundred dollars is set aside to invest for this memory act. The estate exceeds one million dollars with multiple hospital and charity bequests.
Washington report notes Amalfi’s dramatic landslides and its historic decline from a great medieval maritime power. The bulletin details cliff cities like Atrani and Amalfi, sea erosion, paper mills, macaroni plants, and how tourism still frames the landscape.
The newly formed pallbearers association in San Francisco aims to relieve mourners from arranging pallbearers. Members charge $2.50 each, with four to eight pallbearers used per service, all in regulation black attire with self-supplied black ties and white gloves.
A new type of naval cruising plane the PN-S is under construction at the Philadelphia navy yard. It features an all metal hull and a 72 foot wing span with two 525 horsepower Wright engines. Officials say the PN-S will be faster with greater carrying capacity and seaworthiness, improving on the PN-7 and designed for long cruises.
The American Chemical Society division of chemistry of medical products notes a worldwide revival in vitamin chemistry. Three of four recognized vitamins have been isolated, with claims from Japan Washington Toronto and New York signaling near confirmation of the vitamins' nature.
The Bible Society of Maine under Edmund T. Garland directs a 1500 page hand written Bible weighing 80 pounds. Over 1500 contributors aged six and a half to ninety years participate, including Garland’s grandson and pages from every Protestant college and many Sunday schools. The volume will be shown for exhibition once completed.
William Willis of Ardwick near Manchester, described by his wife as the kindest man alive, is to succeed John Ellis as public executioner. Willis, a Manchester native, has twenty years as assistant hangman and works as an engraver when not dispatching criminals.
In Cantwell Alaska a herd of big reindeer under U S biological survey supervision sheltered Eskimo boys from a mother bear and cub. The elk like antlers formed a barrier as the bears retreated, and the boys resumed their vigil.
Flapper motorists on Lexington Avenue and Forty second Street admired a hand some officer who turned out to be Miss Mary Allen. She heads London's 20 policewomen and arrived to study American traffic methods. She wore high boots riding breeches and a knee length blue uniform coat with gold braids. She does not own a skirt and says London forbids bobbed hair.
A hungry sandhill crane near Hanford devoured about 200 goldfish valued at five dollars each from pools at the J. H. Heidorn residence. The bird returned the next day, but the pool was fenced, and the crane left without further meals.
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