Oslo City Changes Name From Christiania In 1904
Oslo, formerly Christiania, officially renamed Oslo by royal decree effective January 1 following a 1904 law. The city, founded in 1047, sits on former fair grounds at St Mary’s Church site. Industry includes iron foundries, weaving, spinning, paper mills, and large match production. shipping is extensive.
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Misspell Composer Name On Memorial Tablet
In Baltimore on June 14 at Peabody Conservatory a memorial tablet for Danish composer Roger Hamerick was unveiled. The bronze name reads Hamerick while the marble setting shows Hammeric. Hamerick directed the conservatory from 1871 to 19%. The memorial will not be changed, says current director Harold Randolph.
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June is babies fatal month girls have best life chance
Washington May 10 a comprehensive study by the children's bureau shows mortality for infants under one year is highest for those born in June and lowest for those born in August. male babies are about 25 percent more likely to die in the first year than females. The study of 23 000 babies in American cities highlights prenatal and natal factors as major death causes describing monthly mortality decline from 44.8 percent in the first month to 9.3 percent by year end.
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Washington, D. C
Children’s Bureau
Department of Labor
United States
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Pulsies*y Pharmacy
Gerson
New Parcel Post Ruling Issued by Post Office
Washington reports new parcel post regulations to take effect August 1. Accepting parcels at any post office now includes agreement to either return postage if undelivered or relinquish claim to the parcel. Officials expect a one third drop in dead letter arrivals and big time savings.
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Post Office Department
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U.S. Moves to Save Antelope From Extermination
Washington reports antelope are in danger of extermination and a seek refuge plan is under way by the Forest Service. A recent inventory shows antelope numbers down to around zero in national forests, moose also decline with 5,160 head this year from 8,000 last year. Overall big game in Forest Service reserves totals 687,000, up 44,990 for the year, including 550,000 deer, 52,000 elk, and 44,300 bears.
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Washington
Forest Service
Four Score Years No Bar To Skipper
SANTA ANA Cal June 12 Eighty years old and still a master boat builder Captain G Johnson of Newport Beach gives place to no man in quality or quantity of work. Born in New York he marched with General Grant to Richmond and has been a skilled builder for half a century with yachts that won many trophies. He has worked in Great Lakes shipyards and later specialized in fast craft. He came to the Pacific Coast about thirty five years ago and for about three years has been at Newport Harbor.
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Radio Is Bone To British Premier
Premier Stanley Baldwin hopes rapid radio telephony across the Atlantic won’t come soon. He laments the burden of nightly speeches across 3,000 miles of water and doubts any man could hold the roles of Prime Minister or Ambassador.
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London
Stanley Baldwin
Atlantic
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