Calumet City News items highlight local events and deaths
Community notes report health center activity at Calumet Memorial Park, tennis courts open for public use, and the All Saint's Fall Festival preparations for September. Obituary mentions Albert Luczak's untimely death with survivors listed. Births announced for Donald Charles Baumann and Raymond Jerome Baldwin. Schooling updates include E J Mayer Jr leaving for Notre Dame and Tom Collins entering Salem College.
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Calumet City
Calumet Memorial Park
Wentworth
153Rd Place
Faith Bailey
E. J. Mayer, Jr
Notre Dame University
Dal Smith
Marietta College
Marrietta
Ohio
Albert Luczak
Wentworth Avenue
City Health Department organized with new officers
The newly created Department of Health met on Wednesday with Alderman O'Brien elected chairman and Mrs. Clara Rider as secretary. The city clerk will registrar birth and death records and all certificates must be filed there. Doctors midwives and undertakers must register with the city clerk and new rules will be passed. Other members include Harnit Kerschsieper and John Muschelewicz.
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Department of Health
O’brien
Clara Rider
Messrs
Harnit
K. Kerschsieper
John Muschelewicz
Delightful Surprise Party for Mrs. Berger
A Thursday afternoon surprise party honoring Mrs. R. Berger at 108 West Carroll street featured games a musical program and a luncheon. Guests included Mrs. Keiser Aulet Zillner Rethbert Dormagen Dibo Schumann Schwei gert Pawlowisky and Neale among others.
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R. Berger
West Carroll Street
Berger
Fred Keiser
F. Aulet
H. Zillner
B. Rethbert
A. Dormagen
Dibo
E. Schumann
Schweigert
Pawlowisky
J. Neale
Calumet City Welfare Association to Meet Monday
The Calumet City Welfare Association will hold a regular business session on Monday at 7 30 at the Memorial Park Building. Mayor Paul M. Kamradt presides and members are urged to attend to plan the coming year's program and address community needs. Miss Kathleen Roane and Miss Alice Roane with their aunt Miss Elizabeth Roane of Douglas avenue spent Labor Day at Lansing, Michigan, and Miss E Roane will stay two more weeks.
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Fitzgerald
Mary Klein
Detroit
Labor Day
Lillian
Anna Klein
State Line Street
Minnie Lipman
E. J. Kraus
Cleveland
Ohio
Calumet City
J. Redecker
Muskegon
Mich
S. Pressel
West State Street
James Kelly, Jr
Pearl Nagel
Falls
New York
Gene Keller
Calumet City Woman's Club
Memorial Park Bldg
Thomas E. Collins
Calumet Memorial Pool
Tom
Salem College
West Virginia
George Baumann
Clinton Street
Donald Charles
Kathleen
Alice Roane
Elizabeth Roane
Douglas Avenue
Lansing, Mich
Mliss E. Roane
Nature of static in radio reception explained
The article explains static as electromagnetic waves affecting a receiving set. Static results from electrical storms and atmospheric discharges, and is also called stray or x waves. In short, static is electric waves caused by atmospheric disturbances, unlike those from a broadcasting station.
Royal Geographical Society of England Founded in 1830
The Royal Geographical Society of England was founded in 1830 to collect register digest and print useful facts and discoveries. It invites members to support and partake in exploration and scholarly work.
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Famous
Royal Geographical Society of England
Better Home Lighting Contest Gains Local Support
Schools in the district join a nation wide drive sponsored by the National Lighting Educational Committee to promote better home lighting. Local and district prizes will be offered, with district essays entering the national contest and prizes including college scholarships and a $15000 model electric home. Waukegan and many northern Illinois communities organize to boost eye health and living conditions.
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National Lighting Educational Committee
Waukegan
Joliet
Blue Island
Kankakee
Pontiac
Streator
Ottawa
Morris
Oak Park
Illinois
Kentucky's Pride Blue Grass Region Overview
The Blue Grass region of Kentucky spans about 10 000 square miles in the north central state with Lexington as the metropolis. It features two crops per year tobacco and hemp and long blue grass grown almost year round atop blue limestone rich in phosphate of lime.
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Kentucky
Lexington
Gold Coinage Denominations and Private Issues
Government gold coinage lacked coins under one dollar. 25 and 50 cent items were privately issued. Denominations listed include fifty dollars from 1915 Panarma Pacific exposition issues, double eagles, eagles, half eagles, quarter eagles and dollars.
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United States
The Night Before Christmas Author Revealed
Clement C. Moore wrote the poem titled A Visit From St. Nicholas in 1822 in New York City for his children. It was later published in a New York newspaper and in a collection of his poems.
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St. Nicholas
Clement C. Moore
New York City
New York
Emerson on Manners Fashion and Society
Ralph Waldo Emerson observes that manners are a contrivance of the wise to keep fools away while fashion excludes outsiders and society quickly discerns who does not belong, resisting or dropping them.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
No Danger From Comets Says Naval Observatory
The Naval observatory states that a comet’s mass is never large and the material is largely tenuous. Earth would likely experience only a meteoric shower if struck, with explosions resembling those from large meteorites.
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Naval Observatory
Comforting Carrier Rescue in Traffic Jam
A lady secretary was carried from a traffic jam by a man in a two seat car who stretched out his arm and lifted her to safety. She recalls little about his appearance but she remains grateful to the stranger who aided her in the moment.
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Bhim
dJack
Pariah Meaning and Social Rank History
The term pariah originated as a low caste member in southern India and Burma, below Sudra, not an outcast as later usage implied. The note clarifies its original social position and contrasts it with common modern interpretation.
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India
Burma
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