History Prizes Awarded at Junior High Contest
The D A R honors junior high pupils for top essays on history. Carl Kunath won in the seventh grade and Grant eee in the eighth. Forty seven students wrote essays under Miss May Winter with Mrs Julia Cavander presiding and Mrs Besse Plumly singing. Essays cover Benjamin Franklin and civic virtue, Franklin’s life, and Roosevelt’s ideas on good citizenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dellare
Carl Kunath
Grant Eee
May Winter
Julia Cavander
Besse Plumly
Good Citizenship by Carl Kunath
An article defines citizenship and contrasts good citizens with unruly, ignorant, or dishonest people. It highlights loafers, critics, bribe takers, profiteers, and radical elements as poor role models and warns these groups harm governance and society.
Brighton Wins Wild 17–13 Ball Game At Washington
From the Good Old Days Brighton Enterprise reprint: Brighton rallied late to beat Washington 17 to 13 after trailing 12 to 4. Campbell returned to the box as eight runs crossed in the eighth and ninth, sparking a dramatic comeback amid wild Brighton celebration and a fireworks salute back home at 9 PM.
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Brighton Enterprise
Brighton
Washington
Enterprise
John Long
Brighton Maseco
John
Campbell
Bert Tracy
John Swisher
Gene Brier
Bob Lundin
Dec Shoemaker
Charlie Pierce
Elmer Duffield
Sheriff Teeter
Jail at Ottawa to be turned into a hotel
Ottawa Illinois jail slated for conversion into a hotel as Prohibition has diminished its former usefulness. The plan envisions repurposing the facility to support new business travel needs and boost downtown activity.
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Ottawa
Illinois
Confucius Great Sage and Cult of Virtues
Confucius, venerated for two millennia in China, was a sage not a saint or religious founder. He synthesized ideas of his era into a system centered on righteousness, knowledge, sincerity, politeness, and discernment of good. Temples were built in his honor and his sayings taught in schools.
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China
Confucius
Solomon
England Lacks Formal Law Schools Says Source
The article notes no law schools exist in England and contrasts Harvard Law School as the oldest in the English speaking world. It states Cambridge and Oxford have law professors but do not teach as professional schools, only lecturing or offering scientific preparation without professional training.
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England
Harvard
Law School
United States
Cambridge
Oxford
East Indian Farmers Exploited by Debt Trap
The report states that about 80 percent of East Indian farmers are agriculturists, yet only 2 percent are debt free. Each season they borrow for tilling, harvesting and marketing, leaving them tied to lenders as money bought sells their produce. Missionary society led industrial institutions offer a practical solution.
Local picnics honor teachers and brides in Washington
A long Washington social notes section reports Mrs Grace Willits Oakes and Mrs Ruby Macon Wolf honored at a Sunset Park picnic. Abstractors and courthouse staff attended. Updates include Edna Chance and Harley Cherwinker wedding, and a 25th anniversary for Mr and Mrs Alex Miller with guests and silver pieces.
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Grace Willits Oakes
Ruby Macon Wolf
Edna Chance
Harley Cherwinker
Washington
Muscatine
Conesville
Cupid
R. I
Milwaukee
Iowa
Damascus Shrine Plans Big Events This Year
The Damascus Shrine groups, sharing similar memberships, plan major activities for the remaining year. Leadership under Mrs. Reta W. H. P. will host an online event on Tuesday June 8 and a large fall ceremonial with Mrs. Wheeler of Chicago in attendance.
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Damascus Shrine
Jerusalem
Bethlehem Shrine
F. C. Beatty
Fred L. Reid
Ernest Lemmon
Grace Like
Susie Edgington
J. S. McElhinney
Ralph Lb. Bunce
Charles Darbyshire
Ottumwa
Glenn Mace
Iowa City
Supreme Worthy
Biancee
Wheeek
Chicago
Otd
Supreme Queens
Boilar
Sabrine
Fred Reis
Intta Beth
Damascus
Pew
Reta W. H. P
W. P
Wheeler
Predicts 100 Years to Be Average Life
Chicago May 29. Dr W S Sadler told the Illinois Women's Club silver jubilee convention that dying before 100 should be considered a serious offence. He predicted a future coroner's inquest for those dying before 50 and urged public resistance to eugenic marriages and race loyalty to improve national health.
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Chicago
Sadler
Illinois, Women's Club
Some Want Sunday Shows in Knoxville
Knoxville patrons favor Sunday movie shows and the Grand theatre plans a petition to allow them. Des Moines Melcher Oskaloosa Chariton already run Sunday shows and Knoxville residents argue they have a right to Sunday cinema.
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Knoxville
Grand Theatre
Grand
Des Moines
Melcher
Oskaloosa
Chariton
Brighton Town Accepts Sewer System From Contractors
The sewer system becomes town property after acceptance last Thursday. Costs total 861,442.83 with 59,826.48 for laterals, 2,264.77 for the main sewer, and 18,251.08 for the disposal plant. Main and lateral costs will be assessed against benefited property. disposal plant financed by bonds.
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Brighton
New and Valuable Fertilizer From Nitrated Peat
A chemist in Ielian lands develops nitrated peat from explosive ammonium nitrate dissolved in water and mixed with peat powder then evaporated. The product yields about 43 percent aromonium nitrate and shows fertilizing value comparable to sodium nitrate annually.
Life of Beethoven excerpt by Kae
Poetic lines urge resilience and nobility through life s storms. The verse speaks of safety serenity and wandering paths of night as misfortune only elevates the soul.
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Kae
Beethoven
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Benjamin Franklin By
Grant McKenzie
Benjamin Franklin
Milk Street
Old South Church
Boston
Tédesh Franklin
Benjamin
James
Ben
New York
Philadelphia
Market Street
Mies Read
Kreiees
Franklin
Keith
London
Saturday Evening Post
Richard
Europe
America
University of Pennsylvania
General Assembly
Albany
Frankli
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
France
Concord
Lexington
Lafayette
Paris
George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Wallace School
the Heights
Dan Bevins
W. Brookhart
Joe Brookhart
Heights
Sunset Park
Edward Sorrel
Little Earle Bevins
Esta Freshwater
Marie Corbin
Ben Badenoch
F. L. Wilson
BE. B. Hammer
Women’s Ome Missionary Society
The
Methodist Church
H. M. Shaver
Kate Wilson
Anna Anderson
Georgia Johnson
Bidwell Deaconess Training School
J. C. Wright
Women's Home Missionary Society
Cincinnati
Ohio
Rutherford B. Hayes
Lyta McCulley
Alex Miller
Sockum Ridge
Old Academy
Dobbin
Mrs. Miller
J. A. Babcock
Nena Radenoch
Noah Bicher
Winfield
Charles Daugherty
Atlanta, Ga
John Roth
Eliza
Noble
Cora Teeter
Esher Cook
Nordica Wells
Elizabeth Bell
Mary Forman
Jeanette Rothschild
Margaret Duff
Ano
Ophelia
Barbara Miller
Eldridge Battery CO
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