Bell Telephone honors ten Illinois workers with Vail medals
The Bell Telephone News announces ten Theodore N. Vail bronze medals awarded to Illinois Bell employees for public service in 1921. Recipients include Miss Mary Katherine Craig of Chicago Belmont, who saved lives by summoning aid, and several colleagues in Chicago and Hammond who saved others from drowning, gas exposure, or bandit attacks. Medals recognize courage and good judgment. bronze medals accompany no cash, while silver and gold medals carry cash prizes.
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Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Mary Katherine Craig
Belmont
Chicago
P. H. Bernstein
Linsch Street
Nicholas R. Harrison
Springfield
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Bunn Park
Frank O’connor
Austin
Mary Montonelli
Huron Street
Grover A. Peterson
Marie Larson
N. Seeley Avenue
Herman Henry Krueger
Emil Khan
California Avenue
John Mathieu Ribicki
Hammond
Indiana
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Exchange Station
Margaret Stewart
Lake Michigan
Illinois Bell Telephone Employees’ Association
Calumet Park
John Rieman
Walter Helmholz
Fox Lake
George William Stolz
Sievers Brothers
North Clark Street
Arthur I. Whiteman
Joliet
United States
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Bell
Mildred Lothrop
Homer
Nebraska
Word Bum History Reveals Dignified Past and Odd French Fervor
The article traces the term bum from England in the 17th century as bummer a peddler of fish to a general insult in America During California gold days the word traveled east It also recounts the Convulsionnaires a French sect in the 18th century noted for convulsions and frenzied behavior Louis XV ordered their imprisonment but fervor lingered for years.
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California
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St. Medard’s
Paris
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Louis XV
Near East Relief Feeds Constantinople With 20000 Loaves Daily
The Constantinople district of the Near East Relief runs consolidated bakeries that bake and distribute 20000 loaves daily from former German run Turkish army bakeries. In five months the distributed leaves would stretch 280 miles. The Near East Relief has offices in every state and seeks funds to continue the effort.
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Constantinople
Near East Relief
Laughter Across Lands From Grim to Gleeful Mirth
A survey of global humor contrasts shows the Chinese laugh as restrained and fitting, Persian women freely smiling, and Persians and Turks often serious. Italian mirth is musical though languid, German deliberate, French spasmodic, and English varied by class with Irish humor described as rollicking.
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Child Exercise and Balanced Development Emphasized
The text notes outdoor exercise as key to harmonious development and nervous system welfare in growing children. Correct posture, breathing, and articulation support education against nervousness and foster self respect, self control, and self reliance.
Bear Island Mount Misery and ancient river course
Bear Island lies between Norway and Spitzbergen with Mount Misery rising above frigid waters. The barren, mossy island sits on a drowned continental shelf showing a valley to 200 fathoms, indicating a former river system larger than the Volga basin.
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Emerson's One Love Affair
Ralph Waldo Emerson, famed preacher and philosopher, fell in love at twenty four with Ellen Tucker, sixteen, in Boston. After a year apart they wed in Concord but Ellen died young from a lung illness, leaving Emerson with memories of their brief union.
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Strange Trade of Nutmegs Mended by Hackney Women
In Hackney London a colony of poor women repairs worm eaten nutmegs at home. They fill worm holes with a paste of nutmeg dust and gum, earning four cents per gross. A casual buyer cannot easily detect the mended holes. The Weakest Finger notes the third left finger as the weakest for engagement rings and wedding bags, with pianists requiring extra use of that finger.
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London
England
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