Orations by Graduating and Senior Class Members
Five representatives from two classes presented orations on topics such as Educational Adjustment and The Drawn Well. Speakers included Mesera Farrier and Blevins from the graduating class and Fisher Brown Neff from the upcoming senior class, with titles like Bolshevism Its Remedy and Woodrow Wilson.
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Mesera
Farrier
Blevins
Neff
Messrs. Brown and Fisher
P. H. Farrier
Giles County
L. ¢. Blevins
Konnorock
Bolsheviem
CC. M Fisher
Kreedon Caesar Lesson Through Seventh Grade Textbook Joke
A Birmingham Age Herald quote features a student asking who Jaiine Caesar was and a teacher’s reply about Julius Caesar’s notoriety for writing a textbook used in the seventh grade. The exchange highlights classroom humor about historical figures and curricula.
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Birmingham Age Herald
Thrift Stamp Prompt Promises Small Savings Turn Big
A quotation from James A. Garfield extols saving nickels and dimes as the basis of fortune. The note adds a thrift stamp example with 16 stamps plus a few cents exchangeable for a value at W. 6. 8.
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James A. Garfield
Sioux Trick Beats Wire Tappers In Meuse Argonne
Two Sioux Indian soldiers served as forward and rear telephone operators to confuse German wiretaps during the Meuse Argonne offensive. The ruse, carried out with an artillery commander and colonel, lasted three days and nights and left the Germans amused but unable to decipher the chatter.
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Meuse Argonne
Argonne
Old London Bell Foundries and Their Silent Echoes
Before clocks def, London bell foundries held social and economic sway in the city. Prentices faced early hours under bell foundries, and many street names recall these works. Whitechapel Bell Foundry, active since 1570, remains noted for Westminster Abbey bells and long standing trade.
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Hells
London
Prentices
Bilitter Street
Landsear Lucas
Belsize
Hampstead Hill
Whitechapel
Westminster Abbey
Washington City Crowned World’s Most Beautiful Capital
A National Geographic Society bulletin contrasts Washington with European capitals, praising its natural charms. Viscount James Pryce notes Washington’s Great Falls and Rock Creek Park as superior nearby scenery and argues the Potomac region offers more varied relief than Berlin, Petrograd, Paris, Madrid, or London.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Sherman
Ilinois
Congress
Viscount James Pryce
United States
Great Falls of the
Potomac
Vienna
London
Europe
Constantinople
Rock Creek Park
Janeiro
Santiago de Chile
San Francisco
Berlin
Petrograd
Neva
Vetrograd
Paris
Madrid
Manzanares
Alexander Dumas
Surrey
Sussex
Bucks
Thames
Emory and Henry Holds 81st Commencement Events
Emory and Henry College opened its eighty first commence ment with the Williams medal declamation contest among freshmen and sophomores. Six finalists presented speeches on topics from Women of the Old South to The League of Nations. Bishop A V W Darling ton gave the baccalaureate sermon on Christianity and modern society in the college chapel. Memorial services followed for late college figures and the Wyndham Rederison oratory medal contest was scheduled for Monday.
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Emory and Healy College
A.D. Hutton
Glade Spring
J. W. Fopeano
Konnerock
College Chapel
A. V. W. Darlington
Huntington
Germany
Jesus Christ
Jesus
Hoss
Calvin
Wesley
Bishop Waterhouse
Emory and Henry
Emory
T. W. Jordan
Olahoma
D.P. Hull
College
Marion
J. W. Roeder
Heville
Wyndham Rederison
Colorful stocks and worthless securities warn investors
A Thrift Magazine satire notes a Brooklyn woman bought high risk stock as a get rich quick scheme. Shares vary in red yellow and green and were even used to wallpaper a kitchen. The piece cautions color blind investors to beware wild cat investments and the company president’s disappearance.
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Brooklyn
Prophetic musings on Europe and war
The piece recalls Napoleon at St Helena foretelling no kings in Germany long after his death. Lord Roberts warned that Ferdinand Foch would rise to fame in a future great European war. Henri Rochfort, 1896, foretold Alsace Lorraine’s return via an Anglo French alliance against a prideful German eagle.
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Napoleon
St. Helena
Germany
Lord Roberts
Ferdinand Foch
Henri Rochfort
Alsace-Lorraine
London
Good Pipes From Paper Material Pertinax Substitutes for Metal
A British war trade report describes Pertinax as a compressed paper pipe material for gas and oil that can endure three to four times the pressure of lead while being one ninth the weight. It remains water tight and insoluble up to about 200 degrees Celsius, with a tensile strength of 14 000 psi, approaching that of well finished metal. It also serves as an effective electrical insulator approaching porcelain.
Money Circulates Far Regions as Public Menace
In New York on June 24 authorities warn that currency circulating in parts of the country distant from Washington and from sub treasuries is dirty and dangerous to the public, labeling it a menace.
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New York
Washington
Printers Union Delegates Back Monetary Reform Measure
Delegates at the Steel and Copper Plate Printers' Union of North America convention adopted a resolution urging Congress to enact legislation to ensure freer and easier monetary circulation.
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Steel and Copper Plate Printers’ Union of North America
Congress
West Virginia Spearheads League to Enforce Peace Campaign
J. F. Marsh of the state board of regents in Charles Town has been named director of the West Virginia State Speakers' Bureau for the League to Enforce Peace. State bureaus coordinate nationwide efforts to secure ratification of the league covenant, with tours tied to Chautauqua circuits and teachers institutes across the state to mold future citizens.
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J. F. Marsh
State Board of Regents
Charles Town
W. Va
West Virginia
League
Senate
National Buttermilk Day Promotes Health and Dairy Support
The U S Department of Agriculture proclaims July 1 as National Buttermilk Day to encourage consumption and aid the dairy industry. It touts buttermilk as nutritious and palatable and suggests combinations like buttermilk lemonade and frozen desserts with lemon, orange, or eggs and sugar.
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United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Air Fleet to Escort Zeppelin into Port
New York reports a large air fleet will escort the Zeppelin upon arrival Thursday under Commander Towers and Lieutenant Commander Read. Washington confirms navy support for honors and dinners by the mayor’s welcome committee and Aero Club of America arrangements. A uniformed air escort will meet the returning fliers, surpassing European tributes. Paris drought ends as rain begins across France.
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New York
Zeppelin
Towers
Read
Navy
Washington
Navy Department
Aero Club of America
Europe
What He Asked For Reveals His True Desires
A passerby overhears a man asked what he wanted and his surprising reply hints at deeper personal motives and priorities. The exchange underscores themes of longing and self insight, with a hint of humor in the candid request.
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