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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1920
Page
3
Census experts forecast that about 108.5 million people will live in the United States in 1920. They say roughly 61.7 million will be city dwellers and 46.1 million rural residents, with cities growing faster than country areas though final figures may adjust as larger cities are fully tabulated.
A Pocatel official discussed completing a years-old project to restore the national highway link to Yellowstone Park. Plans aim to improve regional travel access and boost local tourism.
A course on a beautiful state eminence plans a $25,000 clubhouse funded this season. Wells are being driven, an expert golfer has been hired, and amateurs show strong progress on a challenging route amid ongoing development.
Scores from games in Little Rock Kansas City and Indianapolis with listed teams and players including Pittsburg Nations Ghicargo Nationals and Indianapolis Assoc along with battery lineups and player names such as Ponder Carlson Tues Robinson Masters Fields Yellowhorse Weber Killifer Evans Sweeney and Love Hayres Standage and others. Potentially informal league exhibition results dated April with multiple city reports and player mentions.
In St Louis on April 10 the report notes debate at the university over housing for women. Proposals call for all women to live in a large dormitory system with uniform plans. Sororities may be moved into shared houses as men’s dormitories are planned.
In April reports from San Francisco Sacramento Salt Lake City and Salt Lake City games, Coast League scores are mixed with multiple players listed such as Devdrimer Sullivan Alcock Scott Seaton and Anfinson. Sacramento and Seattle are referenced with partial score notes and lineups.
Louisville Amer leads Cleveland Amer in a partial box, with an 8 to 140 battery tally and players Tincup and Gallagher noted amid incomplete line items.
California and Stanford officials plan the annual intercollegiate crew race for April 17 on the Oakland estuary due to dredgers on the usual three mile course. California coach Ben Wallis reports rhythm difficulties in the first varsity with Steinbeck stroking and names Larsen Downs Rheinhart Marquard De Roulette Meehan Hinsdale as the crew, while Rogers of Stanford trains in the Belmont bay. Second varsity and freshmen races are being arranged.
Stanford University in California reports sororities have submitted to President Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur an alternative proposal to his plan to abolish the current sorority housing system. Wilbur and the dean of women support separate living groups.
Athier dived to the bottom of Ramona's marriage well in Old Town San Diego and took about 40 dollars in pennies and silver dropped by tourists seeking luck. The well bears an ancient motto promising good fortune and secrets from a sandy friar.
The quadrennial meeting in Des Moines opens May 1 with hundreds of delegates from the United States and abroad. Discussion will cover reunification of the ME church and ME South along with debates over education temperance capital and labor morals marriage divorce child labor evangelism and missions. Bishops will be named and editors elected as lay delegates join ministers in the church governance.
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