Knights of Columbus to hold 38th supreme convention in New York
The Knights of Columbus will convene August 2 to 4 in New York with 300 voting delegates and an anticipated 50,000 Knights and their families. Highlights include presenting a $60,000 La Fayette statue to France and gifting Marshal Foch a jeweled baton. The group will review employment bureaus and night schools expanding to 150 campuses serving 250,000 students, with plans to open schools to civilians and employ 400,000 ex service men in jobs.
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Knigts of Columbus War Fund
Thirty Eighth Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus
New York City
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James A. Flaherty
Philadelphia
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Martin H. Carmody
Grand Rapids
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Connecticut
Marshal Ferdinand Foch
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Kamchatka Peninsula Survey By Swedish Expedition
A Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography expedition from Stockholm has left Yokohama to survey Kamchatka peninsula for at least two years. Led by Even Bergman, 700 scientists from the University of Stockholm will conduct botanical ethnographical geological and geographical work. Collections go to the Swedish Geographical Society and the university. Birds and animals there rival Alaska in diversity. In Berlin the former Emperor William’s town residence hosts Berlin University Psychological Institute as scaffolding and repairs continue after revolutionary damage.
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Yokohama
Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography of
Stockholm
Kamchatka
University of Stockholm
Even Bergman
Swedish Geographical Society
Alaska
Berlin
Berlin Schloss
Wa|lam
Spree
Psychological Institute
The
University of Berlin
Uma
Concord
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White Mountains
Society For the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Lost River Reservation
Kinsman Notch
Beaver Brook
Monday Mill Ends Fashion Notes and Store Hours
A brisk fashion description highlights gingham ensembles with frilled vests and organdy collars, smart new tunic style models, and rich dark allover figures. The piece promotes white voile, braiding, gabardine, fancy pockets, pearl buttons, and second floor Mill End magnets, priced at $4.50. The store closes at 5 daily except Saturdays at 6.
Girls Dresses in Mill End Lot for 2 95
An advertisement highlights a Mill End lot of girls dresses priced at 2.95. Gingham and chambray styles in dark and light plaids or blue tan and pink, with white cuffs on some pieces. Sizes 6 to 14, regular prices 3.50 to 4 dollars.
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Sparkling Mill
cham_ bray
Mill End offers hundreds of women’s shoes at $5.75
The Mill End collection showcases hundreds of shoe pairs in twelve styles all priced at five dollars and seventy five cents. Available options include patent leather pumps, black kid leather and oxfords, tan calf, gunmetal calf, white Nubuck and fabric pumps with varying toe shapes and heels. Main floor rear displays the selection with regular prices ranging from seven fifty to ten dollars.
Fresh house dresses with Billie Burke reinforcements
Readable ad copy showcases new house dresses featuring Billie Burke models in striped gingham chambray with colored or white collars cuffs and pockets. Sizes 38 to 46 offered at regular prices 2.50 2.25 and 3.50 in a compact selling note.
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Billie Burke
Chambray
Traveling cowhide trunk sale with steel frame
Advertisement for cowhide travel bags and trunks in dress and steamer styles. Canvas covered for extra strength, sizes 32 to 38. Regular price $8 to $15, sale at $8 to $12.50. Strong locks and catches, roomy and sturdy, built for durability.
Fine Axminster rug on sale for 59 dollars
The ad promotes an Axminster rug nine by twelve feet on sale for 59 dollars, noting its seamless heavy pattern and rich color. It also advertises linoleum and inlaid designs at 1.75 dollars per square yard, along with a third floor location.
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Axminster
Draperies in Terry Cloth Tapestry Patterns Sale
Draperies in terry cloth with tapestry patterns promote a handsome home upgrade. Sizes from 2 to 10 yards offered with prices ranging from 39 cents to 45 cents per yard, with a sale at 23 to 30 cents per yard on Serim curtains and Mill Ends.
Mill End Sale at Home Mill Ends
Readily available household bargains across the Fourth floor. Dinnersets 100 pieces colonial pattern now 21.50, teacups and saucers 3.36 per dozen, early summer specials on lamps irons brooms and toiletries with prices slashed from regular tags.
Overseas Visitors Bureau aids American tourists in London
The American Chamber of Commerce in London forms an Overseas Visitors Bureau to act as a hotel clearinghouse amid a hotel shortage. Already 350 private homes are registered and inspected to welcome American visitors this summer.
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American Chamber of Commerce
London
Overseas Visitors Bureau
Jap Hosiery Makers in Japan Face Severe Depression
Tokyo July 17 A severe financial slump and cotton yarn drop push Japan hosiery makers into crisis. Production halted or reduced in most centers as money market closes and exchange rates rise, cutting funds. Nagoya figures show 115 of 225 factories closed and 1715 of 2050 knitting machines idle, with thousands unemployed. A Manufacturers Union support group formed.
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Tokio
Japan
Nagoya
Manufacturers Union
Anniversary of Third Republic Celebrated as National Holiday
Paris July 17 The fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Third Republic will be celebrated on September 4 as a national holiday. Officials aim for elaborate celebrations and hope to surpass the fetes of July 14.
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Paris
Bear blocks road in Cavendish Gorge on Maine trip
Mr L Oberg and Mrs L Oberg of Clayton Massachusetts were halted by a large black bear in Cavendish Gorge Rutland Vermont region while driving north on a two mile wooded stretch. The bear, possibly with a cub, stood on hind feet and hissed or “whooted” before slowly retreating into bushes after five tense minutes.
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Rutland
L. Oberg
Clayton
Mass
New England
Cavendish Gorge
Brain
Massachusetts
London teachers push Cockney dialect reform
London teachers in secondary schools campaign against the Cockney dialect calling it language disease caused by wrong breathing and voice. They note elementary teachers also use Cockney pronunciation and say i should have a dot. No plans to reform Cockney adults outside schools. Louise de la Fayette and Louis XIII story notes a genuine friendship and royal reconciliation. She later joins a convent. Pest of grasshoppers devastates crops in Shantung China.
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Louise de la Fayette
Louis XIII
France
Anne of
Austria
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