Woman Behind the Census Card System in 1920
Miss Olive M. Riddleberger, Virginia born statistician, leads a laboratory of figures in the census bureau. She oversees biographical sketches on cards with coded abbreviations and perforations marking essential facts about each person in the United States.
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Sam
Department of
Washington Department
Olive M. Riddleberger
Virginia Gar
Julie
Miss Riddleberger
Census Bureau
Willi
Blunt
Bureau
Coumerce
Card sorting and tabulating by precision machines
The cards are first sorted and then counted by electric machinery that never mistakes and can tabulate from 40 000 to 50 000 cards in a seven hour day. These tabulating machines record the equivalent of 60 facts at one operation such as counting men of a particular foreign race.
Miss Riddleberger Praised For Census Work Innovations
The article highlights Miss Riddleberger’s pivotal role in census data handling and machine accuracy. It notes her expertise in planning tabulations for the next census and her status as a key assistant to the chief statistician amid expanding office staffing.
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Census Bureau
Speci
Miss Riddleberger
Wade Nerself
Bee Och
Greatest of Rose Garden Dens in Bulgaria
Uncle Sam’s Sofia consul general outlines Bulgaria’s rose valleys a 80 mile long by 36 mile wide district on the Balkans. The rose industry thrives with Rosa Damascena and Rosa Alba, distillation yields Attar of Rose, and gatherings occur from daybreak to late morning as fields bloom.
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Bulgaria
Sam
Sofia
Balkan Mountains
Rose
Turkey
Asia Minor
Broussa
Rose Valley
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