National flower suggestion phlox by Dr Wherry
New York August 3 The phlox is proposed as the national flower by Dr Edgar T Wherry of the U S Department of Agriculture and a staff member at the New York Botanical Garden. He notes phlox in national colors red white and blue and mentions wild North American species and limited crossovers into Europe. The piece also covers state flowers, a congress proposal to make English columbine national flower, and a report on an electrical shock death of a 200 year old oak at the garden. It discusses catalpa trees, Shawnee and Catawba connections, and Indian bean nomenclature in Missouri and Iowa.
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New York
United States
Edgar T. Wherry
United States Department of Agriculture
New York Botanical Garden
Bering Strait
Alaska
Siberia
Europe
California
New Jersey
Congress
New York Botanical Gardens
Arthur Hollick
Hollick
No le Britton
Carolinas
Ohio Valley
Missouri
Iowa
Christian Art Found in Mosque Formerly Church
Constantinople August 3. In an isolated corner of Stamboul hidden from the modern world until 40 years ago and still known to only a few artists and tourists are some of the finest and most valuable mosaics produced by ancient civilizations. These treasures depict the lives of Christ and the Virgin Mary, yet are found in a Turkish mosque. The explanation lies in the likely conversion of a former church into a mosque and the preservation of early Christian art.
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Constantinople
Stamboul
Byzantine mosaics hid beneath mosque walls revealed
A Byzantine church built before 413 A D was turned into a mosque by Turkish conquerors between 1495 and 1521. Greek architect Pelopidas Kouppas found mosaics beneath whitewash and urged uncovering them. The Turkish government partially removed whitewash but kept mosaics covered. mosaics survived 1894 earthquake and are valued as pure Byzantine relics. Also, Des Moines appoints R H Bloodgood as a motor vehicle inspector.
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Pelopidas Kouppas
Methodist Episcopal Church Membership and Spending 1926
The department of commerce reports 1926 Methodist Episcopal churches total 26,130 with 4,080,777 members, up from 1916. Expenditures across 25,780 churches reached 89,422,307 dollars, with 20,462,262 for benevolence and missions. Church edifice value stands at 406,165,659. A French “cox of kindness” promotes benevolence toward animals and the afflicted.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
United States
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