Parker May be Columbia Junior College President
Rev Walter G Parker pastor of Park Place Methodist Church Richmond is son in law of Former Judge and Mrs J M Birely. He received notice from Columbia Junior College Oregon that he was elected president and urged to accept by August 1. Parker has not decided and will consult bishop and congregation before replying. He has served Park Place since 1910 after transferring from Lekies Memorial Norfolk. Columbia Junior College is a leading Methodist institution on the Pacific coast with about 200 recent students and a new admin building costing over 65000. Parker is a Virginia volunteer and former chaplain of the Fourth Virginia Regiment and a Trinity College North Carolina graduate.
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Walter G Parker
Park Place Methodist Church
Richmond
JM. Birely
Cals
Columbia Junior College
Oregon
Parker
Board of Trustees
Hoas
Bishop Waterhouse
Park Place Church
Park Place
Lekies Memorial Church
Norfolk
Pacific Slope
Randolph-Macon College
Virginia
Avory
Virginia Volunteers
Virginia Regident
Trinity College
North Carolina
Revolving Mirror Brain Gauge Apparatus Described
An article explains a device called a revolving mirror brain gauge. A small box uses red and blue light flicker to measure responses from an eye peering through a tube. The anthropometrist notes the flicker perception rate to classify mental state and assign a brain class.
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Amin
Brain machine tests mental traits at London exhibit
The brahma chine measures perseverance and speed of thought using a rapid eye impulse test. It differentiates extreme low perseveration from rigid fixed ideas and suggests teachers could sort students for suitable instruction. John Gray notes men often show higher perseverance than women. The device is set up in the Shepherds Bush Exhibition Science Section.
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John Gray
Royal Anthropological Institute
London
Gray
Shepherds. Bush
New Roller Skate Invention Chains Speed and Safety
A French engineer M Fouls Marchand unveils a new automatic roller skate weighing about twenty five pounds per unit. Each skate has two twelve inch wheels and a windme device with a safety clutch. An experienced skater can reach about thirty miles per hour, with the spring and gear system powering rear wheel rotation and enabling stopping via clutch.
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M. Fouls Marchand
Baltimore Farmers Harvest Notes and Local Political Echoes
Westward Maryland brief. Baltimore county farmers harvest proceeds as state primaries near Annapolis. Cumberland celebrates Collan’s golden wedding while Kee-Mar awards alumnae scholarships. Rail work at Gallioore progresses. Hagerstown crime and jail escapes spark local action. County commissioners split bank funds. contested primary dates face stalemate. Police, sheriffs, and new Pen Mar uniforms mark regional governance. Odd agricultural notice on potatoes grown in a sealed box.
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J. Frank Field
Hancock
Kee-Mar College
Hagerstown
Kee- Mar
Spaights
Ohio
Miss Seville
Maryland
Conovecheague Club
Arlegany Grove
National Pike
Cumberland
George C.bacon
Anne Arundel County
Farmers’ National Bank
Annapolis
Annapolis Banking and Trust Company
Charman Vandiver
Elanna
George Brown
Stuart Smith
Perryville
Elkton
Blue Mountain House
Pen-Mar
A J. Koonts
Auto tax for roads drives highway bill in Senate
Senator Simmons of North Carolina pitches a bill to levy a $10 license fee on interstate automobile travel, estimating $1,000,000 yearly for wagon road improvements. He argues better roads boost travel, save farmers money, and justify federal aid to dirt roads used for mails and farm freight.
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Simmons
North Carolina
Senate
Summons
Cure for Green Sickness Promised by Pinkham’s Compound
Baltimore readers report a fifteen year old girl recovered from pale complexion weakness and irritability after three bottles of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The company cites hundreds of gratitude letters from mothers and urges girls with painful or irregular periods to seek the remedy and advice from Mrs Pinkham.
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Baltimore
Alice
Lydia E Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkgama
DL. A. Corkran
Rutland Street
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
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Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis
G. H. Sapper
Mgr
Ehachive
Daniel Drew
Sir Morton Peto
Daniel Trew
Sir Morton
Drew
Senator Sorghum
Washlogton
Baltimore County
Crothers
Thomas Collan
Maryland Mystic Shriners
Lmperial
Rochester
Pensylvania Railroad
Union Station
Galluiore
Bartholomay
WM. H. Shipley
N. Market Street
Tion
W. Patrick St
Frederick, Md
Mutual Insurance Co
Frederick County
North Market St
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Howe
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E. Lombard St
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