Oregon Elks plan LA convention display drive
Oregon Elks aim to showcase the state at the Los Angeles national convention with a six to seven room headquarters, exhibits of Oregon products, royal Chinook salmon in cold storage, a large electric sign, and a unity parade with about 2000 members. They seek 95 cents per lodge as funding, plan 50 000 booklet copies costing about 210 000, and will divide the state into 18 districts for coordinated contributions.
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Portland
Oregon
Los Angeles
Oregon State Elks Association
Oregon Elkdom
Oregon Elks
Jay Upton
Prineville
Benton Burdick
Redmond
Bendredge
Charles Hall
Marshfield
Monroe Goldstein
Roy Ritner
Pendleton
Oregon State Chamber of Commerce
Elks
Grand Lodge
Figures on ancient tablet linked to Abraham legends
Dr Legrain, curator at the University of Pennsylvania, identifies a small clay tablet showing two figures one standing and one seated. He believes the seated figure represents King Sin of Ur and dates the piece to the Chaldean era connected with Abraham. The tablet may have served as a seal or money token for the temple of Ur.
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Abraham
Legrain
University of Pennsylvannia
b-Sin
Tarael
Binker
Shulpae
Too Healthy for Medicine Tristan da Cunha Vision of Solitude
The chaplain aboard the Dartmouth describes Tristan da Cunha as an unspoiled haven with no money taxes doctors lawyers or clergymen and notes there is little medicine or news arriving. The island is a British possession in the south Atlantic 21 miles around with a single fertile coast and St Helena 1,200 miles away.
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Tristan da Cunha
Craiser Dartmouth
Neas
St. Hielena
New Auto Owner and Wife Quip Over License Numbers
A family learns their new vehicle night tag numbers are incorrect. The wife calls her husband to report the mix up, noting the six figure Weense number differs from last year’s. The husband seeks a smaller 1921 license, while the wife laughs at the mix up and contemplates new autos.
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Buenies
Tainel
Pellagra link to income in South Carolina cotton mills
A three year study by the U S Public Health Service finds pellagra in South Carolina cottonmill villages varies inversely with family income. As income falls disease rises within families, while higher incomes correlate with fewer cases. A life insurance statement notes improved means among Southern white earners, with pellagra death rate dropping from 6.7 per 100,000 in 1915 to 24 in 1931.
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South Coroina
United States
Biblic Heath Service
Lage Life Insurance
Gasoline Waste Identified In New York Tunnels
A. C. Fieldner of the U S bureau of mines reports that about one third of gasoline used by automobiles is wasted due to too rich mixtures. Experiments under traffic conditions in vesicular tunnels beneath New York City suggest a practical automatic carburetor could save about 34 million dollars annually for American motorists.
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A. C. Fieldner
United States Bureau of Mines
New York City
Prominent City Man Seeks Free Advice
A wealthy city resident asked a famous physician for health tips after a tiring day. The doctor curtly replied to “take a taxi” as a practical joke, reflecting the humor of the tale from Tithts, London.
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London
Florida rabbit a fighter in street contest
The record relates Russell Thompson of Samsett describing a morning alley chase in Florida where Dr Jock Patton's dog and Mayor Edwards' rabbit fought for about twenty minutes. The rabbit allegedly bit the dog and kicked Major several times before ending the exercise.
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Russell ‘Thompson
Samsett
Thns
Florida
Jock Patton
Edwards
Hoe
Rube
Jack Hatton
Major
High School Counts Rise Across Nation Says 1918 Pamphlet
A federal bureau of education pamphlet notes 18 051 high schools in 1918 with 14 300 under the bureau’s list. It reports rapid growth since 1890, public control rising from 60.8 percent to 87 percent by 1918, and enrollment expanding from 8 12 per 1 000 to 15.6 per 1 000. California leads in high school enrollment at 27 per 1 000, Kansas close behind, South Carolina last at 5.10 per 1 000.
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Federal Bureau of Education
Bureau
California
Kansas
South Carolina
Color and awe in the Yellow Empire’s hills and walls
A Yangtze correspondent describes China’s imperial colors, yellow rivers, and the Great Wall. He marvels at the yellowed boundless seas and the heart of the imperial city with golden tiles, pondering the Great Wall as a sinuous, grand creation of ancient earth.
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China
Yangsze
Ingenious Elevator Eases Museum Entrance
Unusual improvement at the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles eliminates a long pedestrian ascent. An artful 12 foot long auger bored into the wall ends in a large octagonal waiting zoom leading to a twelve passenger automatic elevator. The elevator climbs 15 feet to drop visitors into the main hall.
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Southwest Museum
Los Angeles
Copper's Value in Alloying Steel and Iron
Metallurgist D M Buck discusses adding 0.15 to 0.2 percent copper to normal open hearth or Bessemer steel to reduce corrosion. Copper steel previously used mainly for sheet metal, but its use could double with this application. Copper belts at about 700 degrees below tapping temperature and diffuses through steel without later repute.
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D. M. Buck
American Sheet and Dia Mate Company
Savages Give to Missions War Draftees Reunite
Two hundred boys from the Ni Hill tribes of Axsium West serve in France and are baptized in the army. Upon returning home they donate a month’s pay to mission work as a bank offering for their preservation.
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Axsium
France
Christian Church
Eva
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