Sister Mary Louis creates new keyboard chart for beginners
Sister Mary Louis of the Notre Dame Sisters and Notre Dame Academy in Toledo originated a touch typing chart to teach beginners. The chart shows two large hands on linen with typewriter keys covered by removable tabs until each key is learned, aiming for simple practical use.
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O'Donnel Brothers
Toledo
Mary Louis
Sisters of Notre Dame
Notre Dame Academy
Catholic Central High School
Catherine O'Donnell
Crippled Child Movement Marks Pool Dedication at Gates Hospital
The dedication ceremony for Gates Hospital orthopedic pool highlights the Crippled Child movement. Speakers recount the movement’s history from 1918 and the growing global reach, stressing faith, tolerance, understanding and cooperation as core cornerstones.
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Lam
Gates Hospital
King
Elyria
Lenroor
Cuticura Talcum Advertises Refreshing Medicinal Powder
Fragrant Cuticura Talcum is promoted as a medicated dusting powder for after-bath use and toilet refreshment. The formula claims soothing oils protect the skin and relieve irritation, with a price of 15.
Conference on crippled children acts fuels state plans
Miss Lenroot urged federal aid under social security for crippled children, proposing $2.85 million annually to support state programs. Dr. Eliot noted the act aims to locate and care for crippled children with convalescent support. Ohio officials announced steps to form a state commission to administer tripled child work, citing $270,004 spent last year and about 18,900 crippled children in the state.
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Congress
Lenroot
Dr. Eliot
United States
Ohio
Luetta Peabody Magruder
Division of Charities
State Welfare Department
Magruder
Walter Underwood
Ohio Society For Crippled Children
Robert H Bishop
Cleveland
American Hospital Association of Ohio
Judge Mahaffey
Columbus
Beele Greves
Association For Crippled and Disabled Children
Culbertson
Convalescent Home
Cincinnati
Harland Wilson
Mabel Smith
Crippled Children‘s Bureau
State Department of Welfare
Miss Smith
International Society
Eliot
Oberlin
Ohio Bells Band
Elana
B. J. Bond
First Methodist Church
Mule Trader Maxwell Sells Mules Across Civil War to Now
MEMPHIS Tenn Joseph Maxwell 87 retired mule trader claims to have sold more mules than any man. He began in the Civil War era training eight Mexican mules for the Union Army and later supplied mules to the government in the Spanish American War. Maxwell recalls once getting 610 for a mule and notes demand shifts to plain work animals. Born in St Louis he earned a dollar from Gen Grant for holding his horse reins during a Grant Fremont meet.
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Memphis
Tenn
Joseph Maxwell
Maxwell
St Louis
Gen
Grant
John Fremont
Fremont
Waxwell
Spain-Agrarian Reform Bill Aims at Indemnities and Reforms
Madrid reports a bill to reform the agrarian reform law introduced in parliament by a rightist minister. It preserves expropriation powers but requires compensation to owners, allows peasants to gain ownership after six years through partial payments, and limits application to 14 provinces. The plan reduces estates on the reform list from 990,000 to about 100,000 while promising stronger guarantees to ensure productive use of land.
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Madrid
Spanish Republic
Spain
Lerroux
Cortes
Agrarian Reform Institute
Magnetic Sweepers Clear Texas Roads
Magnetic highway cleaners operated by the Texas Highway Department cleared stretches in South Texas of nails and metal. Between Pharr and Mercedes an 18 mile section yielded 291.5 pounds of scrap including nails tin cans and wire. On Highway 66 in Brooks County 111 pounds were collected. In Oyster Harbors Massachusetts Edna Marshant struck a hard object and unearthed a human skull.
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Edinburg
Tex
Texas
Pharr
Mercedes
Highway 66
Brooks County
Texas Highway Department
Oyster Harbors
Mass
Edna Marshant
Haag Family Reunion Set for August Tenth at Rocky River Park
The Haag Family Association will hold its twenty seventh annual reunion on Saturday August 10 at Rocky River Metropolitan Park near Mastick Hill between Lorain Avenue and Cedar Point. Elyria and Lorain County reception committee members include Michael Haag Florence Bechstein J N Bartter Dan Haag Godfrey Herold Christie Rimbach and Mary Baker with officers Dr Emil Hauschildt Cleveland president Alfred Haag Berea secretary treasurer. Out of state attendees include Professor and Mrs George Zeilinger of Dubuque Iowa. The text notes 1880s and 1890s Zionist movements and land purchases in the Plain of Sharon and the hills of Galilee.
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Haag
Rocky River
Mastick Hill
Lorain Avenue
Cedar Point
Elyria
Lorain County
Michael Haag
Florence Bechstein
South Amherst
J. N. Bartter
Columbia Station
Dan Haag
Godfrey Herold
Columbia
Oberlin Road Briefs Show Parish Meeting and Visitors
Oberlin July 5 report lists L. C. W. meeting in church parlors with about fifteen ladies, rug work, and comfort tying for the annual market. Notable visits include Cyrus and Shook families returning from West Virginia and Detroit guests at the Willams home. Several moves and visits across Oberlin, Wellington, Vermilion, and nearby towns are noted along with casual family gatherings and travel.
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Oberlin Road
Cyrus Shook
Ruth
Paul
Fred Shook
Junior
West, Virginia
West Ridge
J. H. Brumby
Kipton
Frank Krueger Sr
Kreuger Jr
Biener
Vermilion on-the-Lake
Metta Clark
Ted Harper
Amherst
Wesley Miller
H. Baylor
Elizabeth
Florida
Baylor
Oberlie
Wellington
Leland Gould
Huntington
J. R. Worcester
Gould
George Blessing
Sullivan
Fred McRobert
C. L. Warren
Detroit
Gar McRoberts
George
Dean McRoberts
Cleveland
Edward McRoberts
George Lenz
George McRoberts
James Ashby
North Russia
Lfoyd Ashby
Lloyd Ashby
Love Triangle In Zoo Fatal To 2 Monkeys
Houston reports a fatal love triangle at the zoo where Murphy the dominant male killed Pat the bachelor and also Maggie, his mate, in separate bites. The incident mirrors an earlier case of a Capuchin monkey and spider monkey involved in a domestic dispute. Local notes mention unrelated community events and travels in Oberlin and nearby towns.
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Houston
Tex
Houston Zoo
Murphy
Pat
Maggie
Socratic Prayer On Inner Beauty And Wealth
The text presents a model prayer attributed to Socrates urging inner beauty over external wealth. It asks for harmony between inner self and outward possessions and for wisdom to govern wealth rather than be governed by it.
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Socrates
District Deputy Named for Elyria Knights of Columbus
Frank W. Emstle of Cleveland is named District Deputy for the new K of C district uniting Gilmour Cleveland Lakewood Windermere Berea Lorain and Elyria councils under a state redistricting. Installation will be announced soon as Elyria holds a large membership drive and plans a big fall initiation.
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Elyria
Knights of Columbus
Frank G. Jones
Cleveland
Frank W. Emstle
Cuychoga
Lorain County
Gilmour
Lakewood
Winiidermere
Berea
Lorain
Emstie
Elyria Council
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Gates
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Ohio Society
Rotary Clubs of
American Society For Crippled Children
Geneva
Switzerland
Hague
Netherlands
Daddy Allen
Bailey’s Market
VEAL
Hamburg
Ring Bologna
M. S. Munson
Angleton
Clyde Thompson
Prison Farm
Everett Melvin
Frank White
Harry McCormick
Ed Rider
George Cottingham
Max Jacobs
Ed Pooley
Acme
C.h.merther Co
Russia
Poland
Roumania
Lovers of
Zion
Europe
Plain of
Sharon
Galilee
Chester Nash
Simeon Nash
Nene
Margaret Campbell
Frank Keuchenrither
Sugar Ridge
Jelliff
Hast Oberlin
Henry Baumann
Fairsien
Montana
Peoria,Jr
Raymond
Minn
John Baumann Jr
David Davis
Minnesota
Herbert C. Cummings
C. G. Fairchild
Brighton
Beauty Shop
Lewis Mercantile
Mae Leuzler Streen
H. Merthe
Bering
Skunk
Badger Kolinsky
Beaver
Fox
Fitch
Krimmer
Kit Fox
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