Playgrounds to Receive Harmon Foundation Beautification Awards
New York officials announced a playground beautification contest open to athletic fields and outdoor play spaces. Entries close December 1, 1925, with 33 awards totaling thirty three prizes of 500 dollars for leading playgrounds by population group and sixty dollar prizes for the next ten in each group, plus nursery stock gifts. William Harmon funds the awards, inspired by his boyhood struggles for safe play spaces.
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New York
Recreation Congress
Playground and Recreation Association of América
Fourth Avenue
Harmon Foundation of
New York City
Atlantic City
Association ‘Atates
Harmon
William
Mada & Promiga
Harmon Foundation
Playgrounds and Fields Gifted by 1922 Era Trust
The organization founded in 1922 has donated playgrounds and athletic fields to nearly a hundred communities and continues to promote development and beautification of tens of thousands of play areas across the United States and Canada.
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United States
Canada
Deaf And Dumb Players Stage Quiet Football Derby
In Southampton during the British Deaf and Dumb Association tri annual conference twenty two deaf players from England and Wales faced six hundred delegates. The match featured no yells or bells with only hand clapping and a subdued Oh exclamation after good plays. Officials used a flag instead of a whistle due to the unique crowd quiet.
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International News Service
Southampton
British Deaf and Dumb Association
Desociation
England
Wales
Skin Inoculation Cited as Rheumatism Cure in Vienna
Vienna reports a Dr Gustav Paul of the state vaccination institute claims a skin inoculation method cures rheumatism. He says the remedy has succeeded in over 600 cases and is simple and harmless.
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Vienna
Get
Gustav Paul
Prepare For Eisteddfod
The annual Christmas Eisteddfod committee has finished the program which is in the printer. It will be ready for distribution next week. The event features a prize pool around 260 dollars and introduces a children action song. Adjudicators are notable figures in music and literature, with names to be announced with program distribution.
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Te Givan
Dr Jamaa Headache Powders Promise Quick Relief
A fragmented ad claims the powders relieve any headache in two minutes. It touts Dr Jamaa Headache Powders as a gateway to clear thinking and readiness for work or play, urging readers to buy from pharmacists.
Fokker Demostrates Night Flying Plane in Amsterdam
Dutch aircraft designer Fokker recently returned from the United States and demonstrated a new multiengine aeroplane built for long distance and night flying. The trial flight was successful and the craft was shipped to the United States as a forerunner to several orders. In the test, all three engines were shut down individually during a float, yet the plane remained controllable, supporting Fokker's claim of inherent stability.
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International
Ametherdam
Get
M. Folkdter
United States
Fokker
Hach
Britain Moves to Reforest With 40 Million Trees Annually
The forestry commission plans extensive reforestation across Britain. About twenty two thousand acres will receive an average of 1 800 trees per year, targeting the restoration of forest wealth on former waste lands. Several initiatives aim to plant near forty million trees annually to revive forests and bolster timber resources.
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Forestry Commission
International News Service
London
Britain
Aera
Rtl ing Doctor See Breathing in Suspicious Case
A fragmented account suggests a doctor checked a woman’s breath after she appeared unresponsive. One eye opened briefly and she gasped, prompting action that references a powder puff and Sydney Falletin in unclear context.
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AML
At & Teal
Washington Street
Dr. James
Ake
Simplicissimus
Munich
Trademar
NeMino Hosur Mitts
M. B. Lauencn Co
Puiaceuria
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