Breasted Honored as Foreign Member of French Academy
Professor James Henry Breasted of the University of Chicago has been elected foreign member of the French Academy. He succeeds Sir Edward Maunde Thompson as director of the British Museum and leads the Oriental Institute with nine archaeological field expeditions conducted by the university.
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Chicago
James Trenry Breasted
University of Chicago
Acadam
Doctor Breasted
Edward Maunde Thompson
British Museum
Oriental Institute
Country Life Reflections on Country Upbringing and Memory
Writer recalls childhood in the prairie and countryside with sensory detail. He contrasts city upbringing friends' lack of agricultural knowledge to his own memories of fields, harvest, hay, and living close to land, deeming country life enriching and foundational.
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Arundel
Bay
Washington
Census Bureau
United States
John Wells
W. E. Norris
England
Holland
Germany
Western Newspaper Union
Ivan the Terrible
Russia
Winter wheat near the 1929 acreage
United States farmers sowed nearly as much winter wheat this fall as in 1929 despite farm board efforts to cut acreage. The Department of Agriculture reports 42,042,000 acres sown versus 42,720,000 in 1928 and 2,318,000 last year, with crop condition at 86.3 percent. Rye plantings rose to 1,755,000 acres from 899,600 last year, due to non commercial areas and pasture needs.
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Chicago
United States
Federal Farm Board
Department of Agriculture
Think It Over You Win the Race Shed Self-Imposed Handicaps
A motivational note urges overcoming internal limits to succeed in competition. It highlights removing self imposed handicaps and adopting a mindset geared toward victory and personal performance.
Red Cross Plans to Use Five Million for Relief
Red Cross aims to deploy five million dollars from its disasters reserve to ease drought relief. Chairman John Barton Payne said the committee approved the use and advised President Hoover that about eight hundred fifty thousand dollars had already been spent on seed and provisions. An appeal to the nation will follow if the five million fund is exhausted.
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Washington
Red Cross Central Committee
John Barton Payne
Bloover
Red Cross
Prohibition, Business Fears, and Earthly Motions Discussed
A column urges readers to dismiss panic over depressions and prohibition. It recalls 1907 as a turning point, notes a banker's fallen client, and cites Ivan the Terrible’s bear skin punishment. It also explains Earth’s motions, quotes Harvard and Osborne, and urges expanding Latin American trade to reach ten billion dollars.
Illinois Produces Vast Share Of Nation's Manufactured Goods
Despite occupying only 1.85 percent of the nation's area, Illinois contributes 8.58 percent of its manufactured goods, highlighting a notable productivity advantage and industrial concentration within the state.
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Illinois
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Earl Deyoung & CO
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Prof
James H. Creasted
Country Life
Thomas Arkle Clark
University of Illinois
Farm Board
Tillyer
Tillyer “Lenses
Sea Ae Optomer
Aleti
Michigan Ave
Antuur Brissang
William T. Clark
Clark
O. N. T. Clark
Supreme Court
New York
Starvard
Osborne
Harvard
Cutter
United Fruit Company
Latin America
Caribbean
Department of Commerce
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