The Hawley Prize Oration Honors Thelma Maukert
The annual Hawley Prize Oration contest honored Thelma Maukert with first prize for Twilight of the War. Frances Hut cherson won second for The Pilgrim Fathers and What We Owe Them as judges praised several speakers for merit. Senator Hawley could not attend. Principal C W Jackson delivered the medal.
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Thelma Maukert
Frances Hutcherson
Alex A. Steinbach
C. V. Poland
W. C. Given
W. P. Hawley
Prize Names and Medals Across Years Highlighted by Principal
From the first year through the fourth, prize distribution shows others from each year. To supplement the prize, a gold medal, Principal Jackson offered a second prize.
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Jackson
Demand Wiping Out Entire Wage Increase
Chicago June 6 more than 150 railroads urged the railroad labor board to wipe out the July 1920 wage award granted to all railroad employees. Some sought a flat twenty percent cut, others argued the 1920 increase should be rolled back to the April 30 1920 schedules. John G Walker for eastern carriers asked overtime pay abolition and challenged a nationwide wage timetable as discriminatory.
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Chicago
Railroad Labor Board
John G. Walker
Drowned Bluefield Youth in Falls Mills Dam Tragedy
Lewis Wirt twenty, of Bluefield, employed by Theonomy House and Material Co., drowned at Norfolk and Western dam in Falls Mills Sunday's swim. The body recovered after hours of search when the dam was drained. Wirt, who could not swim, vanished after stepping off a ledge. He will be buried in Christiansburg Va., where his adoptive parents resided.
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Lewis Wirt
Theonomy House and Material Company
Bluefield
Norfolk and Western Railway
Falls Mills
Wirt
Hawkins Undertaking
Little girl prays as flood traps mother in overturned train
Mrs Ruby Ellis of Wichita recounts being trapped with her nine year old daughter Mildred Mary in an overturned Pullman as Missouri Pacific trains flooded near Pueblo. They clung to the upper birth rods with water rising to the chin and the girl prayed Jesus I trust you until the water receded. Rescue crews reached the cars as passengers searched for baggage amid amid yard chaos.
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Associated Press
Pueblo Cole
Missouri Pacific
Denver
Rio Grande
Ruby Ellis
Wichita
Kansas
Germany objects to inter allied decision in Upper Silesia
German ambassador to Britain delivered a note to Foreign Secretary Marcus Curzon arguing that the inter allied commission's threat to withdraw troops from Upper Silesia unless Germany begins a defense force pullback is a grave breach of the peace treaty. The note says the threat endangers German residents and could unleash civil war by placing Silesian Germans at risk from Polish insurgents.
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Associated Press
London
R. Sthamer
Tof
Great Britain
Marcus Curzon
Inter-Allied Commission
Upper Silesia
German pressure to expose population to insurgents in Silesia
Paris reports Silesia sees continual German defense organizations arriving as the situation grows more serious. Beubhen proclamation by the allied command threatens destruction of houses found with machine guns.
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Paris
Silesia
Upper Silesia
Beubhen
Clara to be named co respondent in Stilman divorce suit
Mrs. Anne A. Stilman will name a woman known as Clara as an additional co respondent in the divorce action brought by James A. Stilman, millionaire banker. Brennan, the respondent's counsel, said Clara's full name and address are unknown for the moment.
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New York
Clara
Anne A. Stilman
James A. Stillman
John F. Brennan
New federal Mines Department proposed in Nicholson bill
Washington June 6 Senator Nicholson Republican Colorado introduced a bill to create a new federal department of mines. The measure seeks to reorganize mineral policy and federal oversight of mining activities.
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Washington
Federal
Department of Mines
Nicholson
Colorado
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Trelia Macert
Beaver High
Franses Hutcherson
Callus
Mia
Lawrence & Co
Goodykoontz Drug Co
Central Pharmacy
White Pharmacy
Labor Board
Telegraph
Hawley’s Dept. Store
Red Star
Gingham
Jesus
Germany
New Department of Mines
Children’s Gingham
Voss
eWonen
Migsea
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