Garden Named For Miss Keller In Radcliffe Dedication
Radcliffe College dedicated Helen Keller Garden in Cambridge Massachusetts honoring the sightless author and a 1904 Radcliffe graduate. The college also awarded Miss Keller its first Alumnae Achievement Award for a life and spirit embodying liberal arts ideals.
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Cambridge
Mass
Radcliffe College
Helen Keller
Radcliffe
Association
Miss Keller
Anne Sullivan
Beatrice B. Cronkhite
Keller
Elephants Blanche and Toby Escaped in Suffolk
A visiting circus elephant pair Blanche and Toby wandered through Suffolk streets early this morning. The display ended with gardens trampled fences down and police summoned as residents watched the odd escape unfold.
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Suffolk
Blanche
Toby
State Board studies removing teachers from college names
The State Board of Education approved a study on renaming Alabama four teachers colleges. A study will compare pros and cons and report back after a conference of college presidents. Students and alumni at Jacksonville Florence Livingston and Troy State Teachers Colleges back the change.
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Montgomery
State Board of Education
Alabama
Harry M.ayers
Anniston
W. J. Terry
Jacksonville
Florence
Livingston
Troy State Teachers College
Mrs Ward Named Alabama Poet Laureate At Conclave
The Alabama Writers Conclave elected Mrs Madeira Adams Spencer president and designated Mrs Mary B Ward of Birmingham as state poet laureate under a 1931 act. Gov Gordon Persons will issue the proclamation after certification by the appointing committee.
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Montevallo
Ala
Madeira Adams Spencer
Montgomery
Mary B. Ward
Birmingham
Spencer
Mildred Elberts
Corinne Aiken Demetropolis
Mobile
M. L. Orr
Alabama College
Elizabeth Winston Sheehan
Pratt Poff
Laura Hadley
Nelle Bigbee
Tuscumbia
Mollie Jones
Auburn
Ian Stuart
Ward
Alabama
Gordon Persons
Robert Dane Cook
Northport
Frances Durham
Hattie Mae Nelson Elmore
Tuscaloosa
John Temple Graves
Lila Fundaburk
Josephine Aldrich Harris
Eee
Bert Henderson
Ontgomery
van Ness Nolan
Louise Cranshaw Ray
Julian Lee Rayford
Lucille Key Thompson
Troy
Edith Tatum
Greenville
Lincoln funeral flag returns to McLean County history group
The 9 by 14 foot American flag that covered Abraham Lincoln's casket during the 1865 funeral train journey from Washington to Springfield is now owned by the McLean County Historical Society. The flag, once tied to a Springfield merchant and later purchased for $10 by S. Linn Beidler, is now deteriorated and badly aged with a missing 1940 affidavit connected to Frank Beidler.
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Lincoln
Bloomington
Ill
Abraham Lincoln
McClean County Historial Society
Washington, D. C
Springfield
Inez Dunn
Leslie C. Arends
Dorothy Beidler Eddy
Arlington
N. Y
Donald
Whisker System Guides Safe Freight Car Clearances
In Sacramento, Southern Pacific uses car whiskers on its Sierra Nevada line to gauge safe clearances in tunnels and over bridges. A special car carries 126 non aluminum feelers along top and sides. when they touch an obstruction, distance is sent to dials inside the car for crew recording. Russia holds 23 percent of world coal reserves.
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Sacramento
Calif
Southern Pacific Railroad
Sierra Nevada Line
Folsom Hails Young's Victory
Cullman June 12 Gov nominate James E Folsom said today newspaper stories that Texas financier Robert R Young apparently had won control of the New York Central Railroad were heartening to him He added that the time for the nations wealth to be controlled away from Wall Street is long past due Folsom who had criticized Wall Street repeatedly during his first term said in a prepared statement Youngs victory in winning control of the nations second largest railroad is proof that state legislation can be beneficial in helping the citizen of that state to accumulate the wealth and power necessary to assume corporate leadership in the nations big businesses He cited a Texas law requiring insurance companies to invest a certain percentage of their reserves within the state and added This law has given Texans operating capital It has given Texans the money to develop their own resources first and from that to accumulate the wealth to become leaders in national and international finance I think a decentralization of the nations financial control is healthy for the country The Cullman insurance man said that what had happened in Texas could likewise happen in Alabama if the state had a law to require insurance companies to invest 75 per cent of their reserves in Alabama instead of investing it outside the State One of Folsoms major platform planks was a proposed law similar to the Texas regulation He has indicated since his nomination that he will press for its adoption by the State Legislature
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Cullman
James E. Folsom
Texas
Robert R. Young
New York Central Railroad
Wall Street
Folsom
Young
Cullman Insurance
Alabama
Corn Borer Likely Arrived From Hungary in 1917
Scientists believe the European corn borer was introduced to the United States from Hungary and first discovered in 1917.
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United States
Hungary
Robert D. Jones To Be Buried Today
Funeral services for Robert D. Ronnie Jones who died Friday at Decatur General Hospital are set for 3 p.m. at Corinth Baptist Church six miles north of Moulton on Courtland road with Revs Paul and Silas Lang officiating. Interment in the adjoining cemetery. Pallbearers include Leeman Harris Dayton Harris Clinton Jones and Sonny Jones. Survivors are his parents Mr and Mrs Robert M Jones and grandparents Mr and Mrs Emmett Jones and Mrs Lelia Harris of Moulton. Jones worked for Wolverine Tube Division in Decatur.
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Robert D
Ronnie
Jones
Decatur General Hospital
Corinth Baptist Church
Moulton
Courtland Road
Paul
Silas Lang
Brown
Robert M. Jones
Emmett Jones
Lelia Harris
Moulton 4
Mr. Jones
Wolverine Tube Division
Decatur
Leeman
Dayton Harris
Clinton
Sonny Jones
Montgomery man ends life after wife death by suicide
In Montgomery a lumberman J P Moyer died by sleeping tablets a few hours after his wife Mrs Moyer killed herself with a pistol. Coroner Dr M B Kirkpatrick said both were sick recently and Mrs Moyer died yesterday from a self inflicted gunshot wound while he had told friends he had all he could take.
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Montgomery
J. P. Moyer
M. B. Kirkpatrick
Moyer
Moscow Endures Severe June Heat Wave
Moscow experiences a heat wave with temperatures reaching 87.8 degrees yesterday the hottest June 11 in 74 years and remaining hot today. In California coast redwood trees show bark up to two feet thick.
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Moscow
California
Cotton Futures Decline As Stocks Slide In June Market
New York reports show cotton futures easing with most months down 10 cents to $1 a bale while May gains 20 cents. Traders note stock declines and potential near term price support from government loan withdrawals, with exports and end season carryover expected to stay strong.
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New York
New York Cotton Exchange
Congress
White House
New York Cotton Exchange Service Bureau
Free Book Promises Relief for Arthritis and Rheumatism
An enlarged 44 page booklet titled Rheumatism is offered free by The Ball Clinic at Ex celsior Springs Missouri. It claims non-surgical, non-medical treatment provides lasting relief after 35 years of success and no obligation to request the book.
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Ball Clinic
Dept
Excelsior Springs
Missouri
Sea Anemones: Flowering Look, Animal Nature
The article explains that sea anemones resemble flowering plants in appearance but are in fact animals. It discusses their biology and classification, noting their soft bodies, radial symmetry, and aquatic habitat.
Precinct Election Board Members Targeted for Bridge Party
In Long Beach a city clerk staff member disclosed precinct election board members to a caller seeking names for a bridge party on election day. The caller intended to avoid inviting the female workers on the board.
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Social Amenities
Long Beach
Calif
Rice fed to majority of world’s population
Rice remains the staple food for more than half the global population, underpinning diets across diverse regions and economies. It supports food security and livelihoods in many developing countries.
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