Dictaphones Aided Missionary Efforts In Africa
The Methodist Episcopal board reports dictaphones help reduce Central Africa dialects to writing. Missionaries translate the New Testament into Labole cannibal language and other Bantu dialects. Education fosters literacy, wages, and prestige. 383 dialects exist with 100 written, 60 million speakers.
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Chicago
Centra Africa
Board of Foreign Missions
Methodist Episcopal Church
F. M. North
New York
Committee On Conservation
Herbert C. Withey
Angla
Congo
Rhodesia
Methodist Mission
Africa
Kambini
Portugese
Methodists
Blind Workers Meet in Iowa for Tenth Convention
The American Association for the Workers for the Blind will hold its tenth biennial convention June 25 to 28 at the Iowa College for the Blind in Vinton. More than two hundred delegates from the United States and Canada are expected. Officers forming the executive committee include President H Randolph Latimer of Baltimore Second vice president Miss Kate M Foley of San Francisco Treasurer George M Bellows of Glyndon Secretary Charles B Hayes of Boston Massachusetts.
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Vinton
Iowa
American Association For the Workers For the Blind
Iowa College For the Blind
Workers For the Blind
United States
Canada
Toronto
H. Randolph Latimer
Baltimore
Serman C_ Swift
Ate Ees
Kate M. Foley
San Francisco
Cal
George M._ Bellows
Glyndon
Maryland
Charles B. Hayes
Boston
Rub My Tism Pain Killer Adclaims Historic Remedies
An old advertisement touts Rub My Tism as a potent pain killer. It claims relief for pain and soreness including rheumatism neuralgia sprains and similar ailments.
Greatest Year for International Sports Promises Wide Competition
New York May 31 The coming summer will feature the greatest season of international sport with Dempsey Carpentier boxing and Davis Cup tennis drawing top crowds. American golfers and polo teams prepare for events in England and the United States while England and France send premier athletes to compete in multiple disciplines.
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New York
Dempsey-Carpentier
England
France
Oxford and
Cambridge
United States
Forest Hills
N. Y
Southampton
Hoylake
Ted Ray
Alexa Stirling
Atlanta
Fontainebleau
Chantilly
Mockrinhanish
St. Andrews
le Tonquet
Greenwich
Conn
Washington
St. Louis
Abe Mitchell
George Duncan
West Side Tennis Club
Molla Mallory
Edith Sigourney
Boston
Argentina
Denmark
Japan
Philippines
Australia
Oxford
Blind New York girls dazzle at society ball
From the New York Lighthouse for the Blind four girls, all sightless, danced with grace at a major New York season ball. trained in a Lighthouse gymnasium they perform publicly despite blindness, showing they can learn without sight and excel in social dancing and fitness.
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Lighthouse
Aathete Danang
Giis
New York Lighthouse For
New York
Lighthouse Gymnasium
Ballykinlar internment camp houses 1727 Irish prisoners
Reports from Ballykinlar internment camp near Belfast describe 1727 Irish prisoners housed in two wire fenced enclosures with barred watchtowers. Guards oversee daily drill and meals while inmates run their own operations, enjoy reading rooms, magazines, newspapers, and a canteen. Prisoners face censorship and loyalty attestations upon release after seven days.
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Erary
London
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Mc.Grath
Irish Republican Army
Billie Burke backs stock ingless fad and fashion rules
Billie Burke, fashion authority and star of stage and screen, approves of the stockingless craze from Paris but lacks the nerve to try it publicly. She recalls testing it at Hastings on Hudson last summer and laments vague American fashion rules and lack of originality among designers.
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Billie Burke
Hastings-on- Hudson
Miss Burke
London
Paramount Artcraft
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ZA Land
Trish
Ty Peete
Ballykinlar
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Joseph McGrath
Dublin
Hayes
Dail Eireann
Pilse Fashion
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