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AMERICABY G. V. THOMAS.(Copyright. 1006. by Eugene Parcel Is )British in origin, the real home of the Y. M. C. A. is now North America, as represented by this country and Canada. In membership, property and ldeai*, the Y. M. O. A. of North America is acknowledged by the other brunches to lead the world, and its methods are being so steadily adopted elsewhere that the time does not seem to be far distant when the international organization will be thoroughly Americanized.The American Y. M. C. A. has 375,000 members; all the rest of the world 75,000 less. The American membership Is sufficient to make a city the size of Cleveland, the seventh in population in this country. Jt would take seven Peorias, or a Pittsburg, with enough young men left over for a Savannah, Ga. bet each man stretch out his armsto their lull length, and have his fingers touching the tips of other fingers on either side of him, and the line thus m ule would reach from New York to Buffalo, or almost to Pittsburg, or a hundred miles past Portland, Me., or eighty miles to the south of Richmond,,Ya.bast year’s expenditures in North America were sufficient to make seven’ y persons each worth the comfortable fortune lt;f $100,000. if ffs propertyiere to be distributed in one hundred (nousand dollar lots, there would be portions for 300 persons.one-fourth of the 8,200 associations sre in North America. The combined libraries of these 2,000 associations would make two libraries as large as the Yale and Cornell libraries, which combined top 500,000 volumes.The number of students in Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Pennsylvania. Chicago belaud Stanford, Michigan, Princeton and Columbia is 32,528. In the evening educational classes of our Y. M. C. A. are nearly 33,000 men—a Johnstown, Pa., in numbers.Its 130,000 men and boys In its 500 odd gymnasiums constitute the largest athletic organization in the world. The gymnatic feature originated in this country. So did the idea of the railroad Y. M. C. A., the soldiers* and sailors’ Y. M. C. A., the country and town Y. M. C. A., the students' Y. M. C. A.,FafOOdtendplychoowillproddem;thro'Toof ftMtam relat sann Str flesh the i Ing cut aghapconslt;\ enribsfor.»Thheadport*sideof blt;wanproiMof ttuchi the the t sizethe dt *r ribs.deslr erou! for. Is thtlontiIs thby n the sbone lurg« body objec coa ri Ov mu m and form eat In The mu »t the Ion Itthe ’formribsmat I ward a bon t h relt; buck tbesiThsuch and the i a ret he powi CathOHfcoari man t hornmostA Mountain Named After a Little Girl.From the Denver Republican.The United States geographical survey has named one of the mountains of Colorado after a Denver little girl. Mount Genevieve, on the scenic Moffat road. Just across the main range, where Y'asques creek takes its source, is named from little Miss Genevieve Shaffer, who lives at 120 Snutfi Grant avenue. Mtss Genevieve s father ow ns rich mines at (’amp Shaffer, near the line of the Moffat road, und the little ali7thethe lt;Into pa rt the lt;these hut seek port i In ai chn ri
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Kingsbury County Independent
De Smet, South Dakota, US
Fri, May 25, 1906
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