May 27 to June 6 School Closing Exercises and Notices
May 27 Closing Exercises DePue Center May 29 Neponset Center May 31 Ladd Center afternoon Bureany Junction Center evening June 6 Malden Center Memorial Day May 30 Closing date for Boy and Girls Pig Club entry. Sorrow noted after death of Supt G Frank Townley of Ladd. Townley praised for loyalty, music, and cooperation with County Superintendent. Closing exercises in Manlius Center with diplomas to eighth graders. Fairfield Center closings postponed by weather. Notices urge reports due and copies of school law sent to district clerks. Red School reports patriotic close with thrift stamps. Union School picnic closes year with program and graduation.
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Pig Club
Bureau County
G. Frank Townley
Ladd
Townley
County Superintendent of Schools
Glenn Hubbard
Sidney Isaaceon
Cecil Fritsch
Jessie Wade
Union School
Dist
Hoarding Not Permitted Amid Allied Food Shortage
The United States seeks to relieve European hunger within 30 days as wheat and flour supplies lag. Farmers are ordered to market grain while loyal citizens may return surplus flour for export to troops and allies, with penalties for hoarding. Dealers offer cash for flour in various package sizes and forms.
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Europe
United States
The
Food Administration
Bhroepd
Record of flour returns and dealer reporting rules
Dealers must keep exact records of flour returns including name and address of the claimant, amount, brand, and packaging style. Weekly reports go to the local food administrator and upward. disposition guidance follows through. Farmers returning flour milled from their own wheat are paid at the local wheat price plus grinding costs, with millers obligated to accept and pay. The U S food administration may dispose of unsold flour at its discretion. C. J. Mann Bureau County Food Administrator.
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U. S. Food Administration
Red Cross Still In Need Of Supplies From France
Mrs. Benjamin G. Lathrop, director of the Paris depot, says 4,000 military hospitals in France plus civilian relief and new American army hospitals require ongoing aid. She cites past shortages of anaesthetics and rubber goods, noting German occupation limited French production and that Americans must continue sending dressings, bandages, and other hospital supplies.
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Benjamin G. Lathrop
Paris
American Fund
Red Cross
France
United States
Diamonds in Texas Excitement Over Central Western Find
In central western Texas, 18 miles southwest of Sterling City, locals report gems believed to be diamonds. F Kellis, county surveyor, recounts a 32 year old well drilling incident where rocks cut the bit. A cowboy bought a black stone for $800. A prospect shaft reaches 80 feet in blue clay, yielding black and white transparent pebbles.
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Texas
Sterling City
F. Kellis
Sterling County
Bhick
Seattle
Wash
Chicago
Fewkes Quest Hopes for Buried Pueblo City near Dolores
Smithsonian ethnologist Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes travels to the Big Bend area of southwestern Colorado to locate a buried Pueblo city along the Dolores river. He relies on early Spanish explorer reports about communal houses, hoping silt has buried remains for weeks of excavation.
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Dolores River
Colorado
Jesse Walter Fewkes
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Big Bend
Pueblo
Fewkes
Dolores
Fewkes Cetiebek
OLDEST RAILROADER JAMES FREW RETIRES
James Frew of Port Madison Ta recently retired from Santa Fe after 65 years on railroads in England and America. At seventy eight he started as a laborer in England at thirteen and rose to roles including general foreman master mechanic and division superintendent before long retirement.
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James Frew
Port Madison
Santa Fe
United States
England
America
Frew
Hooverized Sentences Spark Controversy in Rothshh Prison
A disputed effort to impose Hoover style patriotism led to excessive punishment in Rothshh prison. The incident centers on a disciplinary sentence rooted in nationalistic fervor, raising questions about policy and inmate rights.
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DePue Center
Neponset Center
Ladd Center
Bureany Junction Center
Malden Center
Red
Mary B. Tobin
Red School
Tor
C. J. Mann
Keeley Institute
Dwight, Il
DR. Olmsted
Peru
Paul F. McNamara
R. A. Smith
Spring Valley
WM. Hawthorne
J. L. Murphy
Ek Ktare
Peltier Bidg
Over
J. J. Moran
W. St. Paul Hi
Cassiday Bros
Adiere
Soda Pumatang
J. B. Frankli
Jagodszinski
Ill
DR. Ladue
DR. A. Rummell
Diamonds
National Parks
Scenic
West America
Tesco
G. W. Jackson
Castor
Samuel Pitgher
York
Castoria
New York City
Lenmon
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