Elaborate Dinner Parties Highlight Washington Social Scene
As Lent progresses, Washington's elite host increasingly lavish dinners with the Pan-American Union and Cabinet members among organizers. The Amaryllis flower show at the Agriculture Department gathers senior officials and the diplomatic corps, while Miss Herbert Hoover hosts a luncheon for Miss Setsu Matsudaira, fiancee of Prince Chichibu, drawing attention to wedding attire and cross cultural exchanges.
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Washington
Mar
Kellogg
Pan-American Union
Department of Agriculture
Glass House
Jardine
Secretary of Agriculture
Coolidye
Tawes
Supreme Court
Herbert Hoover
Setsu Matsudaira
Japan
Mme. Matsudaira
Prince Chichibu
Herbert Hoover, Jr
Cambridge
Mass
Hoover
General Electric announces radio cooking advances
Sciencetown, N Y March 3 United Press reports GE laboratories unveil a six meter high frequency tube capable of radiating 10 to 15 kilowatts. Demonstrations show a fryless fried egg and a baked apple heated by wireless current, with a copper bar aerial radiating 45 kilowatts. A sausage steamed in a glass tube above the receiving aerial.
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Sciencetady
N. Y
United Press
Loslay
General Electric Company
Problem in American Life Is to Keep Intelligent Farmers
Washington AP says the core challenge is keeping intelligent people in agriculture. Dr A C True notes farmer children naturally learn a farming vocation from home life and surroundings. The 4 H clubs and extension programs are steering youth toward better farming and farm life by offsetting pressures that pull them from the land.
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Washington
A. C. True
Fife
Centenary of Painter Gilbert Stuart Observed in Cleveland
A Cleveland report notes a mummy age study by T Wingate Todd of Western Reserve University placing knee bone analysis as a reliable age indicator for ages from 0 to 27 with high accuracy, 27 to 50 with small error, and 50 to 70 with five-year limits. It also details a 1,000 ton fuel oil figure and Gilbert Stuart centennial observance in New York featuring fourteen originals including Washington and other revolutionary era portraits. The piece mentions portraits of Dearborn, Knox, Hannah More, Tappan, Van Rennsselaer, Trumbull, and John Logan, with an onlooker list and a brief horse shoing note from Hutchinson Kansas.
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Cleveland
Ohio
T. Wingate Todd
Department of Anatomy
Western Reserve University
Todd
New York
Gilbert Stuart
Yi Stuart
Georgeshington
Stuart
Henry Dearborn
Henry Knox
Hannah More
Benjamin Tappan
Stephen van Rennsselaer
John Trumbull
John Logan
Oakridge and area PTA meeting highlights and community notes
Oakridge Parent-Teacher Association met Friday evening February 24 at 6 PM with secretary pro tem Miss Mary Nottingham presiding in absence of Mrs. Edmonds. Founders Day program featured songs, readings, and a talk by County Supt. C. J. Lane. Farm Bureau held a Friday session at Ida Leonhard’s with three new members joining. Numerous local residents attended gatherings, visits, and hospital updates, with school resumes, illness, and community events noted.
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Oakridge Parent-Teacher Association
Edmonds
Mary Nottingham
Americas
Johnie Morgan
Frank ‘Leonhard
National Congress
A. P. Lynch
C. J. Lane
Oakridge Farm Bureau
Ida Leonhard
Elizabeth Randle
Katie Toms
A. Rt. Reed
A. R. Reed
Frank Johns
Will Rice
Rice
Knowledge Hill
Chester Toms
Leslie’ Wells
Kansas City
Frank Walters
Midland
Midland Hall
Mabel Fairbairn
Halsted
Khans
Vera
Old Friends Club
Elw. Schafstall
Lawrence
Milford Miller
Stiner
Miller
Harmon
Walter Kirby
Haskell Institute
George Snow
Charles Lemon
Franklin
A. W. Ayer
O. D
Grant
Charlie Wood
van Neste
Oscar Powell
Ike
Northith
Alfred Heck
Hackley
Mr. Heck
Mud Creek
Bailey
J.S. Smith
Mr. Smith
Bismark Grove
Will Elkin
Kanwaka
Arthur Heck
Fort-To-Fort
Douglas county line accident injures no one
The Douglas county line incident Tuesday evening at about 7 60 oclock involved a large truck loaded with household goods and a coupe from Lawrence Sanitary Milk and Ice Cream. Both vehicles left the road and were in the ditch. Wrecking crews freed occupants with no serious injuries. Mr and Mrs Emil Heck and family visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs Alfred Heck and family.
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Douglas County
Lawrence Sanitary Milk and Ice Cream Company
Emil Heck
Alfred Heck
Ruby
Loraine
Fairbairn
Helen Shirar
Lester’ Shirar
Charlie Miller
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General Electric
Lester
J. Hendershot
Pittsburgh
Hendershot
Oakridge
Vernetta
Montgomery County
Willard Morgan
Leonhard
G. F. Minnis
Chicago
Ralph Hall
Hall
E. C. Schaake
Topéka
Frank Leonhard
Mildréd
Clarence Pine
Bruce McKee
Frank Bereiter
J. C. Herriott
van Nice
George Lamb
Fred Harmon
Elmer Weibel
E. F. Keefe
Albert
Howard
Longanecker
Herbert Bruckmiller
Sarah
Toms
Katie
Clifford DeHoff
H. G
TD. Funk
Roger Williams
Woodie Laughn
Bereiter
Laughlin
Marjorie Bereiter
Woodie Laughlin
H. G. van Neste
Automotive
Journal-World
Lawrence Building & Loan Association
L. E. Eby
Asst
I. C. Stevenson
Secy
Pri
A. Reding
Pres
Nelson & Hubbel Garage
Sherwin-Williams
Green Bros
Mass. S
Peoples State Bank
Price
Wn Pra
Great Willys-Overland
Lawrence Overland CO
Durland & Hertzler
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