Centenary of Samuel Longfellow Birthday Noted Around Town
Today marks the birth centennial of Samuel Longfellow noted clergyman poet essayist and hymn writer. Bishop John J Cantwell of Los Angeles observes the twentieth anniversary of his ordination. Commencement events unfold at Northwestern UNC Yale with notable speakers and honorary degrees. A Kansas wheat conference convenes in Salina to discuss the 1910 era. Mount Union College honors 600 alumni in Alliance dedication ceremony.
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Samuel Longfellow
John J. Cantwell
Los Angeles
Northwestern University
Frank C. Lowden
Tlllnois
Kansas
Salina
University of North Carolina
Frankin K. Lane
Secretary of the Interior
Yale University
Edwin ¥. Glegn
Alliance
Mount Union College
Conventions Opening Today Nationwide Banking And Lodge Meetings
Baltimore hosts the National Association of Comptrollers and Accounting Officers while Atlantic City hosts the Master Car Bankiers Association of America. Also listed are the New Jersey State Association of Elks in Asbury Park and the Ohio Whio Bankers Association in Toledo.
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Baltimore
National Association of Comptrollers and Accounting Officers
Atlantic City
N. d
Master Car Bankiers’ Association of América
Asintry Park
New Jersey State Association of Elks
Toledo
Uwhio Bankers’ Association
Work Found For Fifty Thousand Men
Louisiana United States Employment Service reports 50809 job placements from state offices in Alexandria Baton Rouge Shreveport Monroe Lake Charles and New Orleans since January Two thousand were women mainly war workers. Cost to government for five months ending May 1 was 17458.79 dollars versus an estimated 254045 dollars if done by private agencies.
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Louisiana
United States Employment Service
Alexandria
Baton Rouge
Shreveport
Monros
Lake Charles
New Orleans
Greer
Soldiers and Sailors Bureau
United States
Ployment Service
Fee
Cornell's Golden Jubilee Celebrates Fifty Years of Growth
Ithaca June 18 Cornell University marks fifty years since its founding with a four day semi centennial celebration. Alumni from across the nation attend along with governors and judges and a statue unveiling of Ezra Cornell closes the event. The piece notes Ezra Cornell’s founding vision and the universitys substantial endowment and land grant origins.
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Cornell
Ithaca
Cornell University
Sons
America
State of New York
Smith
Charles E. Hughes
Hiscock
State Court of Appeals
Ezra Cornell
Ezra Corner
Puuie
Congress
New York
State Agricultural Society
State Agricultural College
Ovid
Agricultural College
Youn
Ita
The Wit and the Kaiser
The late Sir John Mahaffey, Pro vost of Trinity College Dublin, was famed for wit as well as learning. At a London reception he quipped to the Queen of Spain about Charles V and languages, prompting the Kaiser to inquire the joke. Mahaffey replied he had known her majesty ten minutes and already had something to conceal.
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Sir John Mahaffey
Trinity College
Dublin
Kaiser
London
Spain
Maa
Charles V
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