Graduation ceremony at Finkauf School marks nth annual event
Forty graduates receive diplomas entitling entry to Barton Academy next fall as Leinkeuf School holds its nth annual commencement. Students perform songs and poems while the crowd hears salutatories, valedictions, and addresses from faculty and graduates, listing numerous names across multiple classes.
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Leinkeuf
Larton Academy
S. 8
Radual
Faith Lester
Francesca Charles L. Cosminsky
Aubrey A
Marie Murphy
Josephine McCleary
Dorothy West
Graces I. Dunlap
Mary Frances Connell
Edith Sinclair
Anita Delchamps
A Metzger
Felix Cirlot
John Engand
Seacon
S. Murphy
Mayer
Lollie V. Boswell
Mildred Crum
Grace Landon Dunlap
Rachael Farrow
Francis Harvey
Verna Johnson
Ethel Kirland
Evelyn Labuzan
Josephine Linscott
Bessie McBleary
Edith Metzger
Virginia Thornton
Marie Whitney
Ralph Bodman
Arthur Clement
Charles Ik Gosminsky
Leonard Davis
John England
Percy Farnell
Miss Bright
Corinne Groom
Catherine Lawrence
Lucille Catlin
Dorothy Sorensen
Mary
Frances O'Connell
Frances Parkhill
Annie Odom
Edith Lester
Caroline Lester
Mary Blackburn
Mary Virginia Wolfe
Windham Coney
Aubrey Edey
Malcolm Steiner
Jed
Denmark
Southern Lumber Production Off Across United States
Washington May 31 United States lumber production in 1915 fell five percent from 1914, the US Forest Service reports. Total cut 37,013,294,000 board feet based on reports from 17,000 of 30,000 sawmills. Southern pine drops 3 percent, western states 2 percent, central and northern 14 percent. Top producing states Washington Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina Arkansas Texas and Oregon. Increases noted in Texas Florida Pennsylvania and South Carolina while North Carolina Oregon Wisconsin California Michigan Minnesota posted declines.
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Washington
United States
United States First Service
Central
Orthern
Ashington
Louisiana
Mississippi
Orth Carolina
Arkansas
Texas
Regon
Xas
Florida
Pennsylvania
Uth Carolina
North Carolina
Oregon
Wiscasin
California
Michigan
Minesota
Friends split over new law on military training in schools
The liberal faction of the Society of Friends at their 221st yearly meeting in New York voted to refuse to submit to the new state law requiring military training for public school children. The orthodox faction at their meeting in Poughkeepsie also planned resistance. Each faction represents about 5,000 members.
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New York
Society of Friends
Poughepsie
N. Y
Pan Lutheran group forms Latin America missionary society
Reports from Philadelphia say ministers and laymen of the general synod and general council of the Lutheran church decided Tuesday to organize a Pan Lutheran missionary society for Latin America. The move reflects broader church efforts in foreign missions amid World War I era diplomacy.
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Philadelphia
General Synod
General Council of the
Lutheran Church
Pan-Lutheran Missionary Society For
Latin America
Former Warden Osborne Returning to Sing Sing
New York May 31 George W Kirchwey warden of Sing Sing Bison announced he would resign to devote time to writing and criminology study Osborne is rumored to return as warden upon Kirchwey retirement after succeeding Osborne following indictment by Westchester county grand jury
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New York
George W. Kirchwey
Sing Sing Bison
Mr. Kirchwey
Thomas M. Osborne
Sing Sing
Osborne
Westchester County Grand Jury
Kirchwey
Japan Considers Expanding Guard Posts in Shantung
Tokyo May 31 government deliberations focus on extending Japanese military guards beyond the Chinese railroad into Shantung where Japanese citizens risk. Peking urged protection of lives and property as revolutionary movements gain ground, with anti Japanese demonstrations reported amid new provincial secessions and a provisional southern government.
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Tokio
Japan
Peking
Shantung
Hunan
Szechuan
Whistler kindergarten closes with student exhibition
The Whistler kindergarten term endedTuesday with an exhibition watched by many parents and neighbors. Principal Miss Lailia Peterson and assistant Miss Mabel Vaughan supervised refreshments served to attendees. Local notes include club meetings, visits, family births, and residents traveling to La Junta and Mobile.
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Whistler
Lailia Peterson
Mabel Vaughan
James M. Hudson
M. Wade
Alice Kelly
Gladys
la Junta
Colo
Charles R. Beedher
Marguerite O’ Rourke
Mobile
Charles Barnes
New Orleans
Stork
James Gable
T. G. Saxon
Guntersville
Ala
John Tew
Algernon
Nicholas Tew
Coden
George F. Stutz
Henry Geiger
Dallas
Tex
Birmingham
Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Bethany Baptist Church
Joel Manuel
Whatley Street
Edward Lavett
Health Talks on Surgery and Remedies
A column discusses medical questions and answers on adenoids tonsils urethral polyps and undescended testicles. It covers pyorrhoea eye discharge baby care Castoria versus castor oil dandruff remedies vaseline sulfur and prudent use of physicians.
Pakhom's Last Dash for Land Ends in Blood and Death
The tale follows Pakhom's desperate westward bid to claim land from Bashkirs. He overextends, shedding belongings and risking his life as the sun sinks, dying after touching the cap of the land prize. The Bashkirs depart, burying him with a grave measured to his height. Tolstoy’s folktale tone frames a fatal pursuit of wealth.
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Pakhom
Leo Alekseevich Tolstoy
Julius W. Muller
George C. Smith Dies at 62 in New York
George Carson Smith financier and railway official died in New York at age 62. Born in Granville, New York, he held posts including president of the Atlanta and West Point Railway and Western Railway of Alabama and later managed Westinghouse firms. Burial planned in Adrian, Michigan.
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New York
George Carson Smith
Granville
N. Y
Adrian
Mich
Atlanta and
West Point
Western Railway of
Alabama
Smith
Charles M. Croswell
Michigan
Texas and Pacific
International
Great Northern
Missouri Pacific System
St. Louis
Western Railway
Louisville
Southern Railway
George Westing
Doctor Perveil Dies of Sleeping Sickness in Brooklyn
New York May 1 Dr Albert Curtiss Perveil died at his Brooklyn home Tuesday from sleeping sickness contracted in the Belgian Congo after a tsetse fly bite. A Hackensack New Jersey native, he was 42 and had attracted national medical notice for describing his illness in a published article.
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New York
Albert Curtiss Perveil
Brooklyn
Belgian Congo
Perveil
Hackensack
N. J
South African Assembly Adopts Diamond Export Tax
London May 31 report says the Ways and Means Committee of the South African assembly approved a diamond export tax plan. The levy would be set between one half and five percent of export value.
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London
Reuter
Capetown
Committee On Ways and Means of the
South African Assembly
Whales, Sealing Feats, and a Clever Camouflage Tale
The interview recounts nautical stories from Captain Charles George W. Lane and Captain Sol Jacobs. Lane recalls striking two whales off Maryland while sailing the Adelia T and a later encounter near the St Lawrence. Jacobs narrates eluding a British cruiser by painting his schooner to resemble a mountain cove and hiding for three weeks in a remote inlet.
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Adelia T. Carelton
Maryland
Charles George W. Lane
Evelyn W. Hinckly
Binnacle
Gulfport
Mobile
New York
Evening World
St. Lawrence
Sol Jacobs
I. T. Newbury
Lane
Sol
Jacobs
Women clubs begin ballotting for officers
Polls opened at the Seventh Regiment Armory for the General Federation of Women's Clubs biennial officer election. Voting runs to 4 p.m. with both president candidates supporting woman suffrage. California delegates urge nationwide extension of voting rights.
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New York
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Seventh Regiment
Josiah Evans Cowles
Los Angeles
Samuel B. Sneath
Tiffin
Ohio
California
Nearing settlement on Irish question in London talks
May 31 London reports indicate hopeful progress in Irish negotiations. Lloyd George might brief MPs before adjournment, with Ulster exclusion still a challenge. Irish Nationalists and Ulster leaders reportedly see a practical agreement, possibly a parliament for nationalist Ireland with Ulster largely excluded.
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London
Mrr
Lloyd-George
House of Commons
Ulster
Glasgow Herald
Ireland
Herald
Manchester Guardian
Westminster
Edward Carson
Congress Opens At Buenos Aires During War-Tone Address
President Victorino De La Plaza opened congress and urged neutrality, praised domestic industry, and warned of England’s postwar protectionism. He referenced a consolidated internal loan and the Pan American Financial Congress, promising results soon. He noted England’s courtesy over the steamer Presidente Mitre and urged an Argentine trans Atlantic merchant fleet.
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Buenos Aires
Victorino de la Plaza
Washington
Presidente Mitre
England
Man Claims WWI Duty Exemption As Rabbit Catcher
London May 31 a man who said he was a professional rabbit catcher with ratting experience sought exemption from military duty claiming his services were invaluable to the country. He said he had killed 10 000 rabbits since August but officials refused noting he would be an excellent rat catcher for the trenches.
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London
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United States Presbyterian Church
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China
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VAX Antwerp
Prompt Service Powers Printing Co., Anc
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President
Merchants Bank
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van Antwerp
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