Prize Painting Contest Winners Listed With Addresses
Nationwide junior art contest honors Nancy Hegner and Ruth Osburn for top and 50 cent prizes. Numerous young contestants from Ohio Kentucky and Tennessee are named with ages and street addresses. special mention recipients listed in full. The Robinson Crusoe theme inspired vibrant color work across dozens of entries, with praise for overall quality.
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Nancy Hegner
Wyoming
Ruth Osburn
University Street
Nashville
Tenn
Julia Feely
East Third Street
City
Robinson Crusoe
Laysan Island Birds Create A World Of Nesting Life
An island of birds in the Pacific Laysan also known as Moller is home to vast albatross rookeries and diverse seabirds. The land supports no fresh water yet hosts dense nesting, while explorers including William Palmer and Rothschilds emissary catalogued its remarkable feathered world amid guano operations and fearless albatrosses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aysan Island
Mid- Pacific
Pearson’s
Laysan
Creation
Moller
Sandwich Group
Necker
French Frigate Shoals
Mare Reef
Lisiansky
Walter Rothschild
William Palmer
Herr von Kittlits
Mr. Rothschild
Palmer
Honolulu
Bird Island
Nilhau
Vail
Freeth
Artificial silk industry growth sparks European talks
Reports from Continental Europe note three major artificial silk factories in operation in England Besancon France and Spreitenbach Germany with yields of 6600 12000 and 3500 pounds weekly and plans for Belgium and Germany plants. Dr Freund says artificial silk can rival natural but is less valuable and often mixed with natural silk and cotton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Wolston
England
Besancon
France
Spreitenbach
Germany
Belgium
Frankfort Society of Natural Philosophy
Freund
Odd Lamp Fueled by Shining Insects In Lab Invention
Professor Raphael Dubois has built a lamp in his laboratory that glows using a liquid culture of luminous marine microbes. The device rests on a metal base with a large glass component and has illuminated the lab for weeks. Observers praise the achievement and its unusual bioluminescent light source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raphael Dubois
Siemwa
Prize Baseball Drawing Contest for Our Boys and Girls
The contest invites readers not over 14 to draw a scene from a thrilling baseball moment. Finish in pencil, sign name age and full address, and submit to Our Boys and Girls in Cincinnati by noon Wednesday June 19. Prize is $1.
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Pickuure
OUR
Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati
Globe lamp with adjustable air circulation and reflector
A globe with a flat bottom and two tubes to regulate air flow into luminous liquid. The base is lined with tinfoil as a reflector. Injecting air through the tubes adjusts brightness, enabling continuous light for several weeks from a single fill.
Shod with American Shoes
The flying cavalry horses used by Lord Kitchener to pursue General DeWet in the South African veldt are shod with Pennsylvania made shoes. The contract was arranged via Philadelphia commercial museums.
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Lord Kitchener
Flying
DeWet
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
A Matter of Choice in Edward VII’s Regency
The passage argues there was no necessity for the new King Edward VII to choose the name Edward. It states it was a matter of personal choice and suggests Albert I as an alternative if it had seemed proper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Edward VII
Albert 1
An Evening in Noah's Ark Cardboard Drawing Game
An evening event uses black on white cardboard to draw outlines of real animals. Players guess which animal each silhouette represents, earn points for correct names, and vote for the best drawing. Prizes include animal stories and framed animal photos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noah’s Ark
Misnomer Origins in English Language History
A list explaining historical meanings of misnomers such as size misused from farmhouse roots and libel once meant a small pamphlet, imp signifying a child, polite denoting smooth surface, starve as die, blackguard tied to kitchen staff, meat as any food, vagabond as a wanderer, and CRE once signifying a field.
Worker completes job in 2⅔ hours after lengthy ruling paper
A historical ruling notes a worker used to take seventy years to finish a task that a modern machine completes in about 2.67 hours, highlighting a dramatic efficiency gain from automation.
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Usi
Sechine
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Robert Bodemer
Clifton
Mercedes G. Geyer
Dayton
Minnie McNees
Covington
Robert Donagh
Sycamore St
Gustav A. Stifel, Jr
Northside
Dickie Farrin
O. Joe Williams
Paul R. Ford
Middletown
O. Mary P. Everett
Newark
O. Archibald Macbrair
Clinton St
Nouise Crouse
Ninth St
Elsie T. Kelly
New Lexington
Olga Juergens
Springfield
Mary Shearer
Marysville
O. Howard Brooks
College Hill
Lillie K. West
Leigh Barber
Hyde Park
Thompson
Georgetown
Frank B. Lyons
Rushville
Ind
Bessie Marcuson
Lancaster
O. McKee Rud
Harrodsburg
Ruby C. Fees
Arthur Mindermann
John St
Lebanon
Olivia Avery
Jessie Rea
London
O. Brooks
J. Gordon
Delhi
O. Alma Barkley
Carpenter Street
Elsie M. Parker
California
O. Frederick BE. Wittick
Circleville
Edna Hockberger
Hamilton
Kenneth Henry
Hamilton Avenue
Frederick V. Geier
Eloise Conrad
Williamstown
Are King
Leesburg
Elsie Lange
Indianapolis
Bert Lange
Hazel Wood
Ky Colston
Mt. Auburn
Fred Wagner
Newport
Howard Endebro
Price Hill
Charles Hammell
Hilmwood
Helen Pohlman
Walnut Hills
Rosalind Ach
Gertrude Clark
Yton
Reuben Walker
Vine St
Samuel Davies
Piqua
Genevieve Barrett
E. Sixth St
Louise French
Greenville
George S. Prugh
Eastern Av
Gratz E. Bailey
Lexington
Warren M. Miller
Elmer Davidson
Columbus
Helen Abbott
Clifford Hall
Jamet Cormany
Hartwell
Dorothy Will
McArthur
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