New Bureau to Strengthen Home Economic Work
Secretary of Agriculture announces steps to strengthen home economics scientific work within the department with aim to create an independent bureau led by a woman of executive ability. Assistant Secretary Pugsley echoes plan at Corvallis Oregon for the American Home Economics Association.
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Washington, D. C
Agriculture Wallace
Wallace
Pugsley
American Home Economics Association
Corvallis
Oregon
Department
Department of Agriculture
Office of Home Economics
Extension Service
Procoed
Department of Agrculture
Hollebrands Named Delegate for Toronto Life Underwriters Meet
Eli Hollebrands, Des Moines life underwriter for Federal Life Insurance, was elected delegate to the international convention of life insurance men to be held in Toronto, Canada, August 22 23 and 24. Des Moines life men hope to host the 1923 convention.
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Eli Hollebrands
Federal Life Insurance Company
Des Moines Association of Life Underwriters
International Convention of Life Insurance Men
Toronto
Canada
Des Moines Life Men
Des Moines
75th Anniversary Music Committee Seeks School Chorus
The Music Committee of the 75th Anniversary invites all public school children to join a chorus with rehearsals in the afternoon. Parents are asked to ensure their children attend and learn their parts, with cooperation requested from all parents.
Old Time Methods of Persian Bakers
The Persian native bread remains much as it was a millennium ago. Ovens are ground masonry structures about the size of a barrel. Dough is stretched into thin sheets about a foot by two feet and slapped onto the oven walls to bake in minutes.
Speejacks Sailors Narrate Long Pacific Voyage
The Specjacks a 98 foot yacht owned by Albert Gowen of Chicago sails from Panama to Teokea as part of a world cruise. Captain N A Swensen towed her 4200 miles behind the Eastern Queen and later sighted Gowen in Sydney before continuing toward Java and Borneo. Swensen recounts the tow and the crew on deck with radio concerts aboard. The voyage includes stops at Teokea Tahiti Pago Pago Apia Suva Noumea Sydney and Amboyna with a 250000 craft built for a 3000 mile cruising radius and a crew of ten including museum and geology representatives.
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New York
Albert ¥. Gowen
Chicago
South Pacific
Ralaul
New Britain
Baltimore
N. A. Swensen
Swensen
Panama
Teokea
Gowen
Sydney
Australia
Java
Borneo
Globe
Equator
Marquesas Islands
United States Shipping Board
Shipping Board
Neutral Harbor
Balboa
Teokin
Tank
Speerneks
Teoken
Pacific
Los Angeles
Specjacks
Mra. Gowen
Lower
California
Cristobal
Honolulu
American Museum of Natural History
Trevor Hogg
Princeton
O. K
Tahiti
Pago Pago
Case Oil
Tuamoto
Samoa
Speejacks
Apia
Suva
Fiji
Noumea
New Caledonia
Afr
Adventurers' Club
Amboyna
Malay Archipelago
Tickling Will Calm Bear In Portland Rescue
Portland police and park officers recount a cub escape from a pen and a daylong climb to a high tree. A bamboo pole tickled the bear’s ribs, causing him to laugh and tumble to the ground, ending the escape.
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Tlm
Portland Park
Portland
Oregon
Tony
Tales of longevity from Poplar Bluff centenarian
Three longevity tales are cited by William Huskey a hundred years old of Smelterville. He credits moderate habits hard work and minding one’s own business. Huskey recently marked his century birthday in his farm home. he is married with an eighty four year old wife and father of eighteen children. Though illiterate he stays informed on current events.
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Poplar Bluff
William Huskey
Smelterville
Huskey
Sttle Farm
Fire Chief Revived by Ringing of Gong
Corvallis Ore Fire Chief Thomas L Graham underwent surgery and was revived by a gong. While still strapped after the operation he leaped from the bed when the fire gong sounded and drove to the blaze to direct firefighters. He arrived in time to oversee the effort despite the ether unconsciousness.
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Thomas L. Graham
Corvalls
Ore
Graham
Nurgea
Death of Mrs Verne Little at Pella after illness
Mrs Verne Little died at home in Pella on Wednesday August 16 1922 at 6 00 pm after a short illness that began with a tonsil infection spread to her lungs and affected her heart causing a collapse. She leaves Mr and Mrs G L Rysdam two brothers two sisters and a young daughter. Funeral arrangements were not set as of press time.
Two Obituaries From Pella and Des Moines
Sophia Wilhelmina Hoogenakker aged 52 dies after residency in Pella and Des Moines. Funeral at First Reformed church in Pella with interment at Oakwood. Cornelius Rus dies at 39 in southeast Pella from diabetes. Funeral held at home and First Christian Reformed church, Oakwood burial.
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Cornelius Rus
Pella
First
Christian Reformed Church
Peoria
Oakwood Cemetery
Birch Symbol of Authority Across European Traditions
The birch features prominently in European life and legends, linking Roman fasces as a bundle of birch rods to authority. From magistrates to schoolmasters, the birch has long symbolized power and control across many cultures.
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Europe
Meanest man alive and a charity soup kitchen gift
A Bilbao restaurant owner, famed as the meanest man alive, lost a bag with $1850 in notes and gold and suffered severe distress. A cab driver who found the bag returned it, and the owner rewarded the finder with a meal ticket, not in his own restaurant but for a charity soup kitchen.
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Bilbao
Spain
Bas Andeweg and sisters return from Colorado visit
Bas Andeweg and his sisters Mrs Weyerse and Mrs Hellinga came back Friday after a month visiting relatives in Colorado.
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Bas Andeweg
Weyerse
Hellinga
Colorado
Newton visitors bring Mrs Hold and party to town
Mrs Henry Hold of Newton visited the latter part of last week with her friend Mrs H Grundman and her husband.
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Henry Hold of
Newton
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