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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1925
Page
4
A report urges universal eye examinations for school children, noting about 12 percent have vision impairments and many cannot be educated effectively without conservation and treatment. It calls for standardized law, annual pupil eye checks, trained examiners, and funding to implement statewide screening programs.
The Federation of Post Office Clerks convention in Kansas City will consider a liberalized law a 44 hour week and time difference night workers the issue of a civil service court in cases of demotion or dismissal and ousting of procedures.
NEA Service Writer Allene Sumner notes Clarence Darrow's arrival in Dayton Tennessee for the Scopes trial. Dayton, 1700 strong, a 100 percent American and fundamentalist town, greeted him with mixed excitement as he staged his famous entrance wearing blue suspenders. The Dayton Progressive Club hosted a banquet where Darrow's humor and gestures drew loud applause for his defense of modern science against the local orthodoxy.
A local engineer attests Herb Juice as the greatest medicine, saying after months of use it improved digestion, liver and kidney concerns, and constipation. She urges others to try the product, claiming it transformed her health and family life.
In Seattle on July 1 the stage was set for a clash between fundamentalists and modernists at the Northern Baptist convention. Dr. W. B. Riley of Minneapolis announced opposition to seating Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, former Park Avenue Church pastor, over concerns he admitted members hostile to baptism joined his church.
Miss Joan Fry, a youthful English star, defeated Mme. Billout in the semi finals of the women's singles at the All-English championships. The match occurred July 1 and marks a notable victory for Fry over a veteran opponent.
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