Danish Bishop Bast Found Guilty by Church Court
The Methodist Episcopal Church ecclesiastical court, meeting during the quadrennial conference in Kansas City, found Bishop Anton Bast of Copenhagen guilty of imprudent conduct and misused charity funds. He was suspended permanently from exercising bishop duties while remaining in the church and the conference plans support provisions until the next meeting.
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Phonograph Record of Voice Tests in Bell Labs Study
Bell Telephone laboratories test phonograph records of a man’s voice to evaluate telephone transmitters. Aimed at measuring speech characteristics, hundreds of sentences and alphabet drills feed receivers to mouthpieces while lamps and instruments record performance. Experts note transceiver life tests simulate years of service at accelerated pace.
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Joe
Lacy
Hunt
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Yates
France to replace manual telephones with automatics amid cuts
Deaf telephone girls in France are losing jobs as the country pushes to install automatic switchboards. By year end about one quarter of telephones will be automated, Paris leading with expected 50 000 lines. Tests for operators’ hearing have been lax due to low standards. Nine cities already use automatics, five more to be partly equipped this year.
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Moye Huge Sand Slide Buries Boy John Pyrek
Reports from Chicago detail a massive sand slide at a Playmates site as 10,000 tons of sand moved in a bid to locate eight year old John Pyrek who is missing and feared buried. The effort is led by James Alder of the Sand and Gravel company with hope of locating the child, while police and university officials monitor developments and a telephone alarm is reported.
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Roots
Obituary notice from Lawrence county pioneer dies at 86
The obituary recounts the life of a Lawrence area pioneer who arrived in November 1883 and spent his remaining years on a farm residence near Lawrence. He married in December 1914, had five children, and was survived by his wife Tong and three sons and two daughters. He had been ill for nine months and died peacefully at home on May 6, 1928, at age 40? read in the fragment.
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Dioxol Tablets Promoted by Special Agent Ad
An old advertisement touts Dioxol gall tablets as a quick health aid promising liver cleansing and improved blood flow. It urges readers to obtain a sample from a Special Agent at Round Comer Drug-Co and try a trial leading to a full package.
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