Reading course cooperation opens in Oregon schools
Oregon joins the national reading circle plan with the Bureau of Education and Oregon State University extending home reading courses. John C. Almack will coordinate papers and progress, with certificates signed by the U S commissioner of education, the state superintendent, and an Extension Division representative.
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Washington
Oregon
Bureau of Education
Bureau
Oregon State Department of Education
Oregon State University
State Superintendent of Education
John C. Almack
University
Eugene
Home Education Division
U. S. Commissioner of Education
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Extension Department
University of Oregon
Eugéne
National
United States
Commissioner of Education
Union
Hawaii
Alaska
Canal Zone
Porto Rico
Philippine Islands
India
China
Burea
American Library Association
France
Dallas Plans Spring Street Paving Campaign
Dallas moves to commence a street paving program this spring aimed at improving road quality and traffic flow. Aurora approves a $25,000 project to erect a new high school building, signaling local growth. Eugene high school expands with cement work plumbing and wiring courses, broadening technical offerings.
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Dallas
Aurora
Eugene High School
Japanese Resistance to American House Invasion Recounted
An East and West News note recalls Japan’s failed push to import American made movable houses. It argues Japanese homes reflect centuries of custom and warns against forcing rapid adoption of foreign living styles.
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Japan
Nippon
Nat
East and West News
Diaries and relics of Junius Brutus Booth found at Walnut Street Theater
Wreckers during reconstruction of Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theater uncovered two wicker hampers packed with oldtime costumes a diary of Junius Brutus Booth a license for Booths father to practice law signed by the king of England and a collection of historic playbills and programs. A marble lithograph stone bearing John Sleeper Clark advertisements was found resting beside the hampers.
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Junius Brutus Booth
Walnut Street
Philadelphia
United States
Booth
England
John Sleeper Clark
Arc light method for photographing microscopic objects
A London Royal Microscopical Society report describes using electric arc light for high magnification photography. By shielding incandescent light and filtering the light, a powerful near ultraviolet monochrome beam enables sharp images of minute objects at 2,200x, with potential lenses corrected for UV rays extending photography's role in microscopy.
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Royal Microscopical Society
London
New York Evening Post
Peanuts Gain In Popularity In County
More than two million acres in the county were planted with peanuts last year. Peanuts are highly nutritious with fat and protein content and are praised for efficiency in supplying energy. They yield cooking oil and are used in solid fat substitutes.
Move to unite Danish Swedish and Norwegian tongues
Upsala professor Adolf Noreen begins a movement to fuse the three Nordic languages, aiming to allow a drama by a Danish writer to be staged in Stockholm without translation and reduce language barriers among students of philology.
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Norway
Denmark
Sweden
Adolf Noreen
Upsala
Stockholm
Variously Valuable Shark Foibles and Uses
Sharks now fetch value for skins used in shoes and leather goods. Special nets have caught up to 200 sharks daily. A single hide yields 10 to 40 square feet of leather. Shark oil and byproducts are used in glue, soup, palettes, and medicines. Meat is white and edible like halibut.
Paint and paint on a Scotch couple in a domestic farce
In a domestic farce set around Philberta and Angus a Scottish clerk and his wife clash over red cosmetic paint. He censures the rouge while she insists on its charm, and their quarrel ends in playful mutual smearing and a kiss that redeems the moment.
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New England
Philble
Angus
Philbie
Armatrong Hardware Company
Papa
Bugs Sinko Circus
Philberta
Phillie
Ant
Plillble
Philberth
George
Phiberta
Income Tax Deductions Rules for Self Employed
Guidance on what can and cannot be deducted from gross earnings for self employed individuals. Explains that wages paid to oneself or to minor children are generally non deductible, while reasonable compensation for adult children or family labor in farming may be allowed. Also notes deductions for ordinary business expenses but prohibits personal family living expenses.
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U” Wing
National Reading Circle
Virginia Baker
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Era Seed Co
Portland
Ae Eel
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