Sports Are Great Help to Right Citizenship
James Edward Rogers argues before the National Education Association that games and sports build character essential to citizenship. He says physical education teaches sportsmanship, linking fitness to personal efficiency in business and relationships and noting a fit nation handles emergencies better and reduces industrial waste through better fitness programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Education Association
James Edward Rogers
National Physical Education, Service
Sailed yachts urge speed with slotted sails noted
Hagiish yachts fit slotted sails to gain speed while Paris Bagatelle grounds host bike polo amid high enthusiasm. Naval coach Richard A. Glendon named official crew mentor for Boston Athletic Association at nineteen. Indiana University sells over 23500 seats for seven 1928 home football games, a record. Alfred Shrubb holds many tracks records. Jimmy McLarnin tallies four amateur boxing medals before fifteen. Soldier Field Chicago to host 140000 fans next fall for Notre Dame vs Navy on October 13. Only four amateurs have won the US Open since 1895 Bobby Jones Travers Evans Ouimet. Paul Smith from Portland finished transcontinental trek using 31 pairs of shoes and over 200 pairs of socks.
Daniels Praised Hoover In 1920 Remarks
Secretary Josephus Daniels lauded Herbert Hoover for monumental war and postwar work in Europe and the United States. He said it was a privilege to be intimately associated with Hoover during the war and after the armistice, calling him a man of commanding abilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Hoover
Josephus Daniels
Europe
Brad's Pure Candies at Altom's Offer 20 Cents a Pound
Big shipment of eight fresh Brad's pure candies available at Altom's with a special price of 20 cents per pound. Customers may choose any of the eight varieties while supplies last.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brad
Altom’s
Notable figures muse on mind and speed across ages
Retired boxing champion Gene Tunney is praised by literary figures and British nobility while commentators weigh boxing's relevance against modern technology. The piece highlights speed of light, space distances, aging leaders, and political dynasties, with notes on health experts and a centenarian mother campaigning for her son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Tunney
Mr. Gibson
Hainisch
Austria
Feminist Party
Prohibition, Pioneers and Power in the Era
The piece covers Mrs. Henry Wrigley’s tenmile swim victory by a field include Gertrude Ederle, urging Ethel Hertle to marry and quit long distances, and calling for a $100000 prize for a baby. It notes Harvard president A. Lawrence Lowell losing $70000 to a land scam, warns against land purchases, and reports Australia’s vote to end prohibition while noting New Zealand and industrial districts on the issue. It comments on Spain’s Alfonso XIII promoting travel, talking pictures, electrons and science progress, and quotes Sir William Bragg on the soul. It ends reflecting on machine labor fears and England’s response to new machinery.
Matter Force and Spirit Shape the World
The excerpt argues matter force and spirit as fundamental, noting matter and force may unify yet require consciousness to empower and improve creation. It counters random chance as insufficient to produce complex life and intellect like a field mouse brain or Aristotle’s mind.
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Aristotle
Chicago Man Keeps Time With Ten Year Memory
Raymond Blunt of Chicago is described as a human time clock. He recalls his whereabouts and every hourly moment of the past decade. In four months this year he slept 968 hours, attended church 25 hours, ate 363 hours, and spent 48 hours on pleasure.
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Vesuvius
Ephesus
Disraeli
House of Commons
Sophia Curtiss
Curtiss
New
Raymond
Blunt
Chicago
Local social notes from Decatur and vicinity
Edward Blankinship, a business caller from Decatur, visits Monday. Iona McDowell of Chicago visits relatives near Vernon. Amy Sprinkle and Mrs Ralph Richardson of Decatur visit D. M. Cowger family. Richardson travels to Centralia to see her parents. W. D. Perry visits Vandalia for daughter’s family. Funk family reunion at Westcott Chapel draws over sixty attendees. C. R. Dees and children visit McLeansboro while Dees supervises a road project. William Busenhart and children of Litchfield visit the Busenhart family. Harold Cole undergoes surgery for apycnicitis at Mark Greer hospital. recovering well. Prof. Bailey and Roy visit Altamont with H. H. Bailey. S. E. Robinson makes a business trip to Centralia.
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Edward Blankinship
Decatur
Iona McDowell
Chicago
D. M. Cowger
McDowell
Iona Morey
Vernon
Amy Sprinkle
Ralph Richardson
Vandalia
Sherman Funk
Earl Funk
Marcella
Funk
Westcott Chapel
C. R. Dees
McLeansboro
Dees
Pie and box social at Sholonier high school well attended
The Sholonier high school pie and box social drew a large crowd with pies selling well and contests going smoothly. Receipts totaled 52 dollars 64 cents. The Kaskaskia school plans a pie and box social on Friday night October 12 inviting all. J E Cooper attended a Rural Mail Carriers banquet at Virginia Illinois last Wednesday.
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Sholonier High School
Kaskaskia
J. E. Cooper
Virginia, Ill
Patoka Baptist Church
Shobonier Baptist Church
J. A. Cooper
Centralia
Ill
Democratic Meeting in Salem Illinois to Feature Keller
Ex Senator Keller of Ava is billed to speak at a Salem Illinois Democratic meeting next Tuesday night. The event draws both Democrats and Republicans who seek the truth as Keller, a Bryan ally and Wilson admirer, is awaited amid current political trends.
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Keller
Ava
Salem
William Jennings Bryan
Wilson
Infant Dies in Sandoval Ill Parents Grieve
The infant death reported from Sandoval Illinois leaves Mr and Mrs Jake Foltz grieving with friends in Patoka and vicinity Burial and death occurred last Friday with sympathy extended to the family.
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Sandoval
Jake Foltz
Patoka
Methodist Silver Tea Meets at Logan Home
The October Methodist Silver Tea gathered at Mae Logan's residence with hostesses John Jennings and Aliie Gray. Mrs. Lulu Troyer led devotion, Winnie Spurgeon gave scripture, and Dorothy Logan plus William Marion Spurgeon performed piano solos. Contests included a Candy Contest with enthusiastic reception.
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Mae Logan
John Jennings
Aliie Gray
Lulu Troyer
Winnie Spurgeon
Dorothy Logan
William Marion Spurgeon
contest ties in ad identification event prize split
Anna Belcher and Helen Troyer tied in the first contest and shared the prize. In the second contest Mae Simcox and Helen Troyer tied after contestants named familiar advertisements pinned around the room.
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Anna Belcher
Helen Troyer
Familliar
Mae Simcox
Emily Jane Pearson obituary notes long life and family
Emily Jane Anglin Pearson died October 4, 1928, at age 81 years. She married William R. Pearson on November 8, 1872 and they had six children, plus nine grandchildren and a brother Ira Anglin. She joined Arnold Chapel M E Church early, died after a Christian life, with funeral at Sandy Branch and burial in Sandy Branch cemetery.
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Emily Jane Anglin
Wiliam R. Pearson
WR. Pearson
Joseph
Kinmundy
Margaret Fagan
Alma
Florence Morgan
Vernon
Susan Jones
Decatur
Corda Green
Maron
Ira B. Anglin
Bruébaker
Arnold Chapel
M. E. Church
Sandy Branch
J. M. Smith
Fancy Work Club Holds Regular Meeting
Mrs. Josephine DeLay hosted the Ladies Fancy Work club last Friday. Officers kept their posts after a motion, with no new elections. Social time filled the afternoon, and refreshments of chicken salad sandwiches pumpkin pies whipped cream and coffee were served. The November meeting will be with Mrs. Mae Good.
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Josephine DeLay
Ladies Fancy Work Club
Parks
Mae Good
Pie Supper At Local School Next Friday Night
A pie supper is planned at the local school building for next Friday night October 12. Everyone is invited to attend and support the event.
Card of Thanks for Mrs. Wm. R. Pearson
The family expresses gratitude for the help offered during the death and burial of their mother Mrs. Wm. R. Pearson. The acts of kindness will not be forgotten.
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Wm. R. Pearson
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Pittsburgh Pirates
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Paris
Richard A. Glendon
Naval Academy
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Indiana University
Alfred Shrubb
Jimmy McLarnin
Northwest
Bobby Jones
Jerry Travers
Qghick Evans
Francis Ouimet
Paul Smith
Portland
Los Angeles
New York City
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Hoover
Arthur Brisbane
Atlantic
Pacific
Howard M. Anderson
Albert A. Michelson
Chicago University
Pasadena
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Milky Way
von Hindenburg
German Republic
Tle
Mr. Wrigley
Channel Marvel
Gertrude Ederle
Providence
Nature
Ethel Hertle
Nancy, Hanks
Abraham Lincoln
Wrigley
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Harvard
Australia
New South Wales
Canberra
New Zealand
Spain
Moving Pictures
Fox Movietone
Christopher Columbus
Alfonso
Thomson
Davisson
Columbia University
Big
Telephone Company Laboratories
British Association For the Advancement of Science
William Bragg
Qouasi
England
Shobonier
Illinois
Sandoval, Ill
Methodist
Emily Jane Pearson
Fancy Work Club
U.K
Ford
Dewitt Motor Company
H. A. Howell & Co
Farina
City Park Garage
J. W. Alexander
A. W. Reichman
Irvington
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