Californian Named International Lions Leader at Annual Reinvention
Ray Le Grande Riley of Sacramento was elected president of the International Association. He succeeds Ben A. Ruffin of Richmond Va as head of the service organization with 180 elites and 20,000 members in every state, Canada, and in China and Mexico. Riley is descended from pioneers to Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, born in Vicksburg Michigan. He takes office immediately.
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Louisville
Ray le Grande Riley
Sacramento
California
International Association
Ben A. Ruffin
Richmond
Canada
China
Mexico
Cutt
Hawaii
Riley
Massachusetts
Pennsybienia
Vicksburg, Mich
Longtime public servant Riley dies after decades in office
Educated in Michigan and Dillon Montana, Riley served thirty years in public life. He held roles from justice of the peace to alderman, county commissioner and state controller. Elected to leadership positions in national organizations, he married Winifred Jeb in 1914 and had one child, Thelwin Marie McKim.
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Michigan
Dillon, Mont
Ad Colton
Riley
Colton
Ete
Hermarsline
Cal Comissioner
Estate Commissioner 1919-192), Ey
Jongainein Lignisun
Survineith
California
Board of
International Directors
Hey
Mise Winifred M. Jeb
Marth-Creek
Mich
Slaughter
Thelwin Marie McKim
Library Year Shows Books Being Read at Forest Park
The Forest Park Public Library serves over 16,000 people with more than 14 percent registered as borrowers. In the year, 307 accessions reissued books, 16 per capita spending averaged 16 bucks, and the year’s totals include 16,045 fiction books, 50 periodicals, 53 picture books, 17,500 juvenile books, with 286 adults and 320 children patrons actively using services.
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Forest Park
Aluringie
A Most Complete Home of the Larger Type by Hunter & Bro
A New York architectural firm presents a large colonial style home suited for big families or entertaining. Central hall separates living and dining rooms. kitchen and pantry with servant space. Seven bedrooms, three baths, master suite with private bath and two closets, plus three rooms on second floor and bath. Exterior is New England Colonial. curved porch. house spans 58 feet with front lot of at least 75 feet. Estimated cost about 17,700 dollars. Complete plans and specs available from Valdes Editor under House H A 179.
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R. C. Hunter & Bro., Architects
New York
Fis
Valdes
Forest Park Library Annual Report Summary
The Forest Park library reports 2 300 registered borrowers split 1 198 adults and 1 102 juveniles. At year start 7 228 books, 146 discarded and 435 added, now 7 487 total. 59 newspapers received, gifts of 136 books. Story hour boosted children's attendance. thanks to Woman's Club, police, and local papers.
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Brary
Woman's Club of
Forest Park
Police Department
Catharine Chouffet
Early Manuscript Illumination and Catcher Mask Legacy
The article notes illuminated manuscripts from ancient times and mentions the Book of the Dead’s colored scenes. It then shifts to a Hartford club anecdote about a student named Tyog as a catcher, claiming the mask was invented by FW Fir in 1976.
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Fleet
General Tyog
Hartford
FW. Fir
Hartford Club
May Building Slumps Under May of 1928
Local suburban building activity faded from April levels in May 1928 though the total still topped May of the year. The report lists numerous towns and counts including Chicago area suburbs such as Cicero Downers Grove Evanston Glen Ellyn Highland Park Joliet Oak Park Park Ridge River Forest Waukegan Westchester Wheaton Wilmette and Winnetka with a statewide total around 270 thousand.
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Altrora
Berwyn
SAO
Evanston Haz
Forest Park
Glencoe
Glen Ellyn
Lasroo Tacvey Pa
Hinndale
la Granee
Ana Lake Forest
Libertyville
JK Lowhard
Mount Prospect
Niles Center
Chicago
HY Asd
Oak Park
Park Ridge
Waukegan Roh
Westchester
Wheaton
Ie Wilmette Winnetak
Eastman Endows Oxford Professorship For American Studies
George Eastman of Rochester has donated 200000 to the Association of American Rhodes Scholars to establish the George Eastman Visiting Professorship at the University of Oxford. The gift funds a chair for distinguished American scholars for terms of one to five years, with the first incumbent to be chosen soon.
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New. Fork
George Eastman
Rochester
New York
Association of American Rhodes Scholars
Englash University
Oxford
Franklin F. Russell
Swarthmore
Rhodes Trust
Association of American Rhodes Bcholars
Eastman
Association of American Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes
Franklin P. Russell
Mc. Eastman
Weber Bush
Bank of the Manhattan Co
American Trust
Onford University
America
Great Britain
United States
Association of American, Rhodes Scholars
Br. Kautman
England
Fragmented musings on understanding and taste
A fragment reflects on comprehension and wine, noting irony in how people grasp ideas yet struggle with tasting notes. The speaker ponders cognition and sensory judgment in a concise, whimsical aside.
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Lake Street
Maywood
Semlays
Noose
Merriam Webster
Asuch
Broadtail
Credit
Union
Rabaism
Alropeneris
Carder
Sandburg
Statin
Lattia
Supreme Authority
New International
G.& C. Merriam Company
Spelugfield, Mass
Chas. F. Drechsler Undertaker
Euclid
Ernest Oechslin
Concordia Cemetery
Madison
Gale River Forest
Serine TS
Californian International
Head of Lions
D'Angelo
John Hoppesch
Aching Ave
Tver Forest
Vhone Forest
Chas. Hutter Talloring
Hoya
Lions International
Hotel Pere Marquette
SYD PL
Bowman Dairy Company
Milkian
Amarion
Madison St
Circle Ave
Forest 75
Public Service Company OF
Northern Illinois
W. F. Yardley
Madison Bt
Forest Park, I
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