The Crandalls and the Stendhals
Adeline Crandall Johnson, raised in the Crandall house on Wittegar Street, elopes with music teacher Jacques Stendhal after a path of marriage, divorce, and social pressure. The couple returns to the family mansion life, creating a new, restless branch of the Stendhals amid the Crandall traditions.
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Grandalls
Wittegar Street
Crandall
Martha Crandall
Deeping Johnson
Martha Crandall Johnson
Adeline
Crandalls
Adeline Crandall Johnson
Martha
Deaping Johnson
Crandall-Johnson
Crandall-Johnsons
Wittegard Street
Johnson
Donald Dugan
Dugan
Patty
Nps
Adeline Ans
Jacques Stendhal
Jacques
Crandall House
Plana
Erdo
Ufe
Johnsons
Crandal-Johnson
Stendhals
Stendhala
Humane System Aims to Soften Prisons Under Reform
President Hoover received a report from Sanford Bates outlining humane and scientific prison reforms. New buildings better diets trained guards and expanded parole and education aim to curb overcrowding and improve deterrence while maintaining discipline. Prison camps relieve jail congestion and parole figures show steady growth in supervised offenders.
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Washington
Hoover
Sanford Bates
Bureau of Prisons
Bates
War Department
Northeast Penitentiary
Pennsylvania
el Reno
Ohlo
Camp Lee Reservation
Petersburg
Chillcothe
Ohio
Ozarks
Springfield
New Orleans
Billings
Mont
el Paso
Texas
Detroit
Georgia Leads States in War on Illiteracy
Georgia reports the largest gain in teaching reading and writing to 118 102 adults over ten years as census data show 828 853 illiterates in 1920 representing 15.8 percent of ages ten and up. State Superintendent M I Druggan leads the effort to reduce illiteracy.
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Georgia
Washington
National Advisory Committee On
M. I. Druggan
Bos
Hit Run Autoist Strikes Six at Roadside Camp
A hit and run driver plowed into a roadside camp wounding six people near Los Angeles. One man died and two women were fatally injured, authorities said while a search for the vehicle and suspect continued.
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Los Angeles
Literacy progress noted among Blackfeet Todians and states
The report shows the Blackfeet Todians in Montana making literacy gains with 286 adults aged 22 to 84 gaining reading and writing ability within two weeks of instruction. Mississippi ranks second to Georgia in progress, with a 4.3 percent literacy reduction.
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Montana
Mississippi
Georgis
Scientist Describes Ancient South American Isles
Dr William M McGovern Northwestern University Chicago outlined a theory that South America once consisted of three islands separated by a sea akin to the Mediterranean He said the sea has become the Amazon River and noted virgin jungle near Manaos within ten miles with distant Indians unseen by whites forty miles away He spoke after an exploration tying geography to experience in the Amazon region
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St Louis
South America
Cone
William M. McGovern
Northwestern University
Chicago
Amazon Jungle
Washington Universlty Association
Amazon River
Man Returns 400 Stamps For Box Car Ride
El Paso report: Harry Bransen admitted riding a box car then sent railroad officials a letter with 400 stamps as penance. He asks them to accept the stamps, valued at about 40 cents, as restitution.
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el Paso
Texas
Harry Bransen
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Roush
King of Waves
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