Dean Merrill to Lecture on Subtropical Horticulture
University of California Riverside Summer Session will feature five lectures on tropical fruit culture by Dean E. D. Merrill at the Citrus Experiment Station from June 27 to August 8. Merrill, a renowned botanist and former Philippine Bureau of Science chief, will discuss crops including cocoanut, pineapple, banana, tea and rubber.
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University of California
Citrus Experiment Station
Riverside
E. D. Merrill
College of Agriculture
Dean Merrill
Philippine Islands
Merrill
Bureau of Science
Philippine
National Academy of Sciences
Ancient airship beats 1905 model automobile in Pasadena race
An airship from 1905 defeated a speedy automobile in a thirty minute Pasadena race by a two minute margin. The Arrow, the bulky balloon’s owner, won $100 in a run from Chutes ballpark to the Raymond Hotel after the automobile halted once for a garage stop due to mechanical trouble.
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Pasadena
Chutes Ballpark
Raymond Hotel
California
Language Study and Missions: A Max Müller Reflection
A concise note on how linguistic science relates to missionary aims. The author examines whether understanding language is possible without considering mission work and the implications for philology.
Common sense as the core of effective advertising
The piece argues that simple, truthful ad copy outperforms flashy, circus like tactics. It states successful agencies rely on common sense, conviction, and sincerity, and that advertising multiplies sales only when behind a business that could otherwise succeed. LORD THOMAS, Advertising
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Carr
Lord & Thomas
Cement sign posts replaced by metal signs in So. California
In 1905 cement mileposts guided drivers near Los Angeles to the city. Southern California becomes the most signposted region with durable metal signs installed widely by the Automobile Club of Southern California.
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Los Angeles
New
California
The
Automobile Club
Southern California
Scientist Seeks Coal Substitute Before Shortage Hits
A western scientist warns coal reserves can only meet current demand for about a year despite the present consumption rate. He argues a substitute is needed to avert a fuel crisis.
Caillaux presses debt settlement and foreign loan plan
Paris June 10 M. Caillaux finance minister urged settling inter allied debts before the finance committee. He discussed possible measures including a foreign loan in the United States and rejected a capital levy despite Socialist opposition. He said treasury payments due this year would be met without expanding paper money and trusted public opinion to support budget balance through taxation.
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Paris
M. Caillaux
Finance
Finance Committee
Chamber of Deputies
France
United States
Socialist Party
Treasury
Confucius: Philosopher Teacher and Magistrate
Confucius was first a teacher then a magistrate. After retiring from office he devoted himself to writing and teaching.
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Confucius
Kung
Philosopher
United Church of Canada Formed by Union ofdenominations
In Toronto on June 11 the bitter church union reached its end as 700,000 Methodists Presbyterians and Congregationalists joined to create the United Church in Canada. The new church, dedicated today, lists about 652 300 members with 414 000 Methodists 226 100 Presbyterians and 4 467 ministers. 108 840 Presbyterians opposed the union.
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Toronto
Church In
Canada
United Church In
Can
United Church
Radio and Concert Lineup on Los Angeles Stations
Radio listings show 5:30 p m Los Angeles Examiner and 6:00 p m MacDaniels Nightly Doings. Programs include KFI Radiotorial at 6:45 p m 7:00 p m American Trio with Hawaiian instruments and Herbert Drews 7:30 p m Eleanor Georgia Hunter and Grace Eaton Dow 8:00 p m Shubert quartet 9:00 p m Southern California Music Company from Chickering Hall 10:00 p m Los Angeles Examiner. KHJ features Leightons Arcade Cafe orchestra 5:30 p m 6:00 p m Art Hickman's concert 6:30 p m Children’s program 7:30 p m Business Insurance talk 8:00 p m John Wright 10:00 p m Valvoline Trio 10:30 p m Art Hickman dance orchestra.
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Los Angeles Examiner
MacDaniels
KFI
Herbert Drews
Eleanor Georgia Hunter
Grace Eaton Dow
Shubert
The
Southern California Music Company
Chickering Hall
KHJ
Los Angeles
Thames
Leighton
Arcade
Art Hickman
Charles Lewen
John Wright
Valvoline
Biltmore Hotel
Argentine Love at California Theatre Tonight
A new Allen Dwan Paramount production stars Bebe Daniels and Ricardo Cortez in Argentine Love. The Spanish heroine educated in the United States returns home to find all she owns paid for by Juan Martin who demands marriage. She resists, having fallen for an American engineer, creating a human interest tale.
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Allen Dwan
Paramount
California
Bebe Daniels
Ricardo Cortez
United States
Juan
Martin
Cortez
Bebe
Automobile Scares Horses From Street in Washington Dispatch
A twenty year old Washington dispatch recounts a carriage driven from the White House being cut off by an automobile. The horses bolted onto the sidewalk, struck an iron fence, and the driver was thrown with severe bruises. no passengers were aboard.
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Washington, D. C
White House
Horse sense from old days guards against wrecks
Editorial note from the Bellingham Herald and Reveille reflecting on horse sense as a safeguard against accidents, suggesting enduring value of cautious behavior in public life and transportation.
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Bellingham’ Herald and Reveille
Hawthorne Telephone Exchange to Open by 1926
The Hawthorne telephone exchange will be installed and fully operational before January 1, 1926, enabling local service expansion. The project outlines continued modernization of communications infrastructure in the city.
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Hawthorne
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Main Street
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Caullaux
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Kung the Philosopher
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California Theatre
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Union Stage Depot
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