Big Town Highlights Chicago Growth and Gifts
Major river work and street projects in Chicago's financial district wrap up a two year effort. The University of Chicago receives a 1.5 million dollar gift from the General Education Board boosting Rockefeller support past 47 million. Banks distribute over 25 million in Christmas savings to 483040 depositors. Public utilities announce a 1930 building program exceeding 200 million. Chicago hosts 200000 plus out of town visitors for the International Live Stock Exposition.
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Raphael Paintings The Transfiguration Among Best Religious Works
Raphael's The Transfiguration unfinished at his death ranks among his masterpieces alongside the Sistine Madonna as one of the noblest religious paintings.
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Raphael
Strength of character defined by wit and restraint
A reflection on character describes strength as two elements: power of wit and power of self restraint, suggesting balance between sharpness of mind and control over impulses.
Smallpox Outbreak Traced to New Mexico Visitor
A New Mexico visitor to Taylor Springs Illinois sparked a chain of 185 cases. Health officials traced infections from the original source to 106 cases in Taylor Springs, 7 in Fayette County, and 72 in Pratt County near Mansfield.
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New Mexico
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Pratt County
Mansfield
Rockne Announces 1930 Notre Dame Schedule Of Ten Tough Games
Knute Rockne reveals a grueling ten game slate for 1930 after Notre Dame completed a nine game schedule. The lineup includes top teams from the North South West and East, with half the games at home and half on foreign fields.
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Knute Rockne
Smuts to Tour U S and Canada as League of Nations Rep
Jan Christian Smuts, former premier of the Union of South Africa, plans to arrive in New York early next week for a speaking tour across the United States and Canada representing the League of Nations.
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League of Nations
Germans Refuse to Reject Young Plan Referendum
In Berlin the Nationalist bid to reject the Young plan failed to reach a quorum. Only about 18.5 percent of 41.5 million eligible voters supported the measure, with slight gains in Berlin Magdeburg Breslau Leipzig and Dresden. Police linked pistol-wielding poll interference to communists in northern Berlin.
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Textile Workers Vote Strikes in East and South
The National Textile Workers convention approved plans to strike in two phases. Fifteen organizers were named for eastern states and twenty five for southern states to mobilize sentiment. A possible eastern strike hinges on the Gastonia murder appeal decision involving Police Chief Aderholt. A second strike targets silk workers in Paterson Scranton Allentown and Pawtucket next spring.
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61 Coal Miners Killed in Oklahoma Mine Blast
Bodies of 61 miners were recovered after the Old Town mine explosion near McAlester Oklahoma leaving only three survivors from the 64 men in the shaft. Authorities believe a cutting machine spark caused the blast and convicts aided in grave digging due to the scale of the deaths.
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Prince Receives Russian Ambassador and Other News
Arthur Brisbane notes the Prince of Wales hosting Russia’s ambassador while King George opposes Russia’s religion. Mitchell-Hedges warns Chucunaques survivors will die, and Mellon eases U. S. finance with a billion-dollar view. Prisons grow in the U. S. while Haiti asks for Marines to stay. A science note highlights Miss McIntyre breathing five times per minute and the need for deeper breaths.
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The man who toots his own horn stirs dodging reactions
A pithy remark from The Montreal Star notes that self advertising invites avoidance as the man who touts himself becomes a social liability.
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