Local Notes From Braden and Nearby Towns May 8
Braden and Ainsworth families dine together. Community members visit Salem Morning Sun Wellman and Washington. Alma Fredrickson hosts Braden club collecting a donation for Perking hospital. Birthday surprise for Mr Long. about thirty neighbors attend. Mrs Nickleson not well, staying with daughter in Washington.
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Braden
Gay Berkshire
Ainsworth
Karl Berkshire
Henry Wittig
A. KR. Smith
Salem
Delbert Maxwell
M. Ruebeam
Bowers
West Cheater
C. M. Maxwell
Alma Fredrickson
Braden Club
Perking
Bd. F. Smith
Marl Bershire
John Orria
Texas
Lease
John McCall
Washington
Louis Jurenheimer
James Long
Mr. Long
J. A. Nickleson
Community Notes From Crawfordsville May Gatherings
Rev Myron Hayes and family returned from a visit to Oskaloosa and North English. W C T U members Mrs Twinam Hull Strain and Sherwood attended Olds meeting. Miss Winona Jewell spoke Wednesday night. Social Hour club enjoyed a gathering with recipes and strawberry shortcake. School groups held lawn and backward parties at local homes and Cranford cottage.
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Crawfordsville
Myron Hayes
Helen
Oskaloosa
Twinam
Hull
C. M. Strain
L. G. Sherwood
Olds
Winona Jewell
Maryal Graham
Graham
Helen Bullers
Maud Lease
Mary Rickey
Mary Washington Rose Hybridized by George Washington
The Mary Washington rose at Mount Vernon represents an early American hybridization effort. Washington initiated it late in life by grafting native sweet briar onto seed-derived shoots from Philadelphia stock and named the variety for his mother Mary Washington.
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Mary Washington
Forkailture
George Washington
Mt. Vernon
Philadelphia
United States
Rat Flea and Plague Spread Across India
Rat fleas spread plague through bites, but not all flea species carry the disease. One rat flea species, Nenopaglia dheopis, appears responsible for most outbreaks in India where plague is endemic. Distribution varies with flea populations, while other flea species dominate where plague remains uncommon.
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India
Polonium Named After Polonia Polands Latin Name
Polonium is a metal discovered in 1898 by Marie Curie and her husband Pierre while researching radionuclides. The element emits only alpha rays and may be identical with radium F. It was named for Polonia the Latin name for Poland.
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Mine
Curie
Thismyth
Polonia
Poland
Morphine Role in Opium Derivatives Highlighted
The article notes morphine as the principal alkaloid in opium with rapid action and better absorption than opium itself. It cites morphine as suitable for hypodermic use and less likely to upset the stomach, then briefly mentions a Journal Want-ad bringing results.
California to Build Golden Gate single span bridge
San Francisco reports plans for the Golden Gate Bridge as part of a broader bay-crossing program. Engineers project a 6 760 foot span with 300 foot water depth and a 206 foot clearance, costing about 20 million dollars and funded by state and private capital with tolls to repay quickly.
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California
Golden Gate
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
Oakland
Pacific Ocean
Golder Gate
War Department
Golden Gate Bridge
Cyoast
San Franciero
Sustem
Coyote Point
Dumbarton
Carquinez Straits
Alamenda
Berkeley
Bay
Priest Papers House With Cancelled Stamps
In Burbank California retired priest Father A Bucci covered two rooms of his home with 149 242 canceled postage stamps gathered over more than 30 years. The walls and ceilings display designs from many nations with a Stars and Stripes motif crafted from Italian Canadian and American stamps.
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Burbank
Cal
A. Bucci
Father Buceil
Father Buch
California Employer Provides Reviio Expert for Lumberjacks
The Weed mountain camp superintendent ran an ad seeking a timekeeper skilled in radio operation. Sixteen applicants competed for the post, which required rounds at 8 AM and 4 30 PM. The man tops up radio batteries, fixes antennas, and keeps the receiver in top shape, then tunes in from 8 PM to 10 PM.
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California
Oakland
Cal
Weed
Doctors Oppose Cults in State Medical Society By-Laws
The Iowa State Medical Society adopted an amendment at its annual convention banning membership to anyone involved with or practicing what it terms a cult in administering to the sick. The by-law change allows refusal or expulsion from the society for such associations.
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Des Moines
State Medical Society
Gold Diggers and a Shipboard Meeting on Tara
Keith, marooned on Tara in the South Seas, pockets rich in gold, faces inner conflict and resentment toward white men. Metford reveals his wife Molly’s lingering affection for Keith as a chance for him to return to America and to take a seat on a forthcoming voyage.
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Epil
South Seas
Tava
Tara
America
Ile
Keith
Metford
Molly
New England
Lumber Varieties by States
National Lumber Manufacturers' Association notes state leadership in various species. Arkansas dominates red gum hickory ash sycamore. California leads redwood white fir sugar pine. Louisiana tops yellow pine cy press tupelo. Colorado logdepole pine. Idaho larch taumarack. Indiana beech. Maine balsam fir. Michigan maple. Minnesota white pine. Mississippi cottonwood. Missouri walnut. Oregon western yellow pine. Tennessee oak. Washington Douglas fir spruce cedar. West Virginia chestnut yellow cedar. Wisconsin hem lock birch clin basswood.
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Arkansas
California
Louisiana
Colorado
Idaho
Indiana
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
West Virginia
Wisconsin
National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association
The Camel Led Off Stage By A Leading Actor
An old theater remark recalls Jobkins once playing a leading role and leading a camel offstage. The anecdote highlights the actor’s past prominence and a humorous stage moment.
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Jobkins
Policing of London Opens Path for Educated Officers
London shifts from recruited laborers to university graduates as police officers. Pay improves from 20 to 35 dollars weekly, promotion opens, and educational standards rise with stringent exams and language requirements. Apprenticeship lasts three years before regular duty and possible commissionership.
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Associated Press
London
East Side
Hall defeats Sandage in ten round Legion card main event
Mason City report details Tinoa Coe Hall of Des Moines a lightweight beating Si Sandage of Sioux City in ten rounds. Hall won five rounds, Sandage three, two rounds even, with Hall punishing Sandage but failing to finish him in the final round.
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Mason City
Tinoacoe Hall
Des Moines
Si Sandage
Sioux City
Legion
Hall
Sandage
Jmt
College Bureau Aims to Rally Voters for Coolidge Campaign
Reports indicate the Republican National Committee forms a College Bureau to mobilize students as a unified bloc for President Coolidge. Amherst's Republican Club among early organizers with colleges nationwide aiming to cover all institutions teaching voters.
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Ashington
D. C
Coolidge
Republican’ Club
Amherst
Ohio
Republican College Bureau
Indiana
Town
Illinois
Tennsylvania
Val Ury
James M. Beck
United States
James W. Wadeworth, Jr
New York
Theodore Ruelt
Navy
Manis
Herat
Mother's Day Sermon Tone Frames Church Events
A Baptist church marks Mother's Day with a reflection on motherhood as a divine gift. The annual business meeting for officer elections and other matters will be held next Wednesday evening, supper at 6:36, meeting at 7:30. Church school 9:30 a.m. Worship 11:00 a.m. BPU at 6:46 p.m. Evening service 7:30 p.m. Pastor John D. Kern.
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John D. Kern
Father of Seven Quips About Birthstone in Collegian
A humorous exchange appears in the Southwestern Collegian where a father jokingly claims his birthstone is a grindstone while asked about his birthstone. The quip reflects lighthearted campus humor and family banter.
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Southwestern Collegian
Last of the Talented Hermits Dies in Tower
London reports the death of the third brother from a family famed for 30 years of denying intercourse with others. The piece notes all three brothers were gifted men and lived apart in the Tower area.
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London
Three Brothers Die In Isolation In Essex Tower
The Cole brothers William naturalist founder of the Essex Museum author Benjamin entomologist and Henry artist etcher and sculptor lived in a moat surrounded fourteenth century tower on the Essex Coast for 35 years and died. The will leaves all property valued about 125000 dollars to the state.
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Essex
William Cole
Essex Museum
Benjamin
Henry
Origin of Photography: Daguerreotype Pioneered by Daguerre
The article notes photography advanced rapidly in fifty years and highlights the daguerreotype as an early process by L. M. Daguerre of Paris first used publicly in 1830. It explains how actinic light fixed lights and shadows onto a metallic plate.
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L. M. Daguerre
Paris
Better Homes in America Movement Promotes Single Family Homes
The Better Homes in America program focuses on families living in single detached homes as the ideal. In its third year the campaign expands with hundreds of local demonstrations led by women in civic roles, aiming to reach many American towns and villages during Better Homes Week May 1 to May 18.
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America
Better Homes
Nelé
Architects
Small House Service Bureau, Inc
American Institute of Architects
Edwin H. Brown
Small House Service Bureau
Brown
Advisory Council of Better Homes In America
Coolidge
Commerce
Hoover
James Ford
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D. C
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