Porter Addresses Local Democrats on Campaign Efforts
Lawrence county Democrats met at the courthouse with Sheriff J H Boyd as chairman and J O Rodgers as secretary to fill vacancies and plan the upcoming election. Attorney C H Akens urged nonpartisan considerations, while Judge William E Porter pressed boosting Democratic interest and female voter outreach after the San Francisco convention.
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Lawrence County
Democratic County Committee
Court House
J. H. Boyd
J. O. Rodgers
C. H. Akens
William E. Porter
Democratic Party
Porter
San Francisco
Famous Captain Will Leave Sea
New York, June 28. Captain William Finch, veteran White Star Line commander, retires after 46 years at sea aboard the Baltic. He previously led the Arab ic during its torpedoing near Ireland, surviving by swimming to a liferaft and aiding a passenger and crew to safety. He also commanded the Baltic in 1917 carrying General Pershing and the Fifteenth Pittsburgh Engineers to Liverpool.
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New York
William Finch
White Star Line
Seven Seas
Finch
Geenral Pershing
Pittsburgh Engineers
Liverpool
Ex-Service Man Deaf Reads Lips Under Vocational Aid
Frank Solomon, a former private in Co. C 684th Engineers and now studying tailoring under the Federal Board of Vocational Education, is stone deaf but an expert lip-reader. He can understand Mark Twain and has learned to read a simple history and do basic arithmetic after initial losses of speech and hearing in World War I.
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Frank Solomon
Co. C
Federal Board of Vocational Education
Mark Twain
France
Cape May
N. J
Morther
United States
U S Population Put At 105000000
Washington June 28 Dr Joseph A Hill chief statistician of the census bureau announces an estimate that the continental United States population in the 1920 census totals about 105 million. The rise since 1910 is about 13 million or 14 percent based on complete returns for 1408 cities and towns aggregating 41,030,864 people.
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Washington
United States
Joseph A. Hill
Bureau of Census Division of
Hill
Watering garden soil with dust mulch and organic matter
The text explains watering farms with care and describes using a dust mulch to reduce moisture loss. It notes that leaves clippings or dry soil layers slow capillary moisture loss and that ample manure or organic matter helps retain moisture in the soil.
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Crion
Banking Department of the State
Wallace
Lehigh Tires
New Castle
S&m Tire Co
S. Jefferson Street
New Castle, Pa
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Sheriff Boyd
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Mount Washington
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Montreal
Campos
Waterloo
Cord
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Fenee
Galbone
Makere
Franklin
U.S
Aney’s
Mir
Biggest & Best
New Castle Motors Co
South
Mercer Street
S. A. Leiby
Lawrence
Merger
Crawford Counties
Marie A. Czaplicka
Poland
Oxford University
England
Arctic
United States Bureau of Education
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