National Congress of Mothers Opens in Denver
Delegates and visitors from all regions gather for the fourteenth annual National Congress of Mothers in Denver. The five day program covers child welfare topics from infant mortality and home education to rural and urban home life and youth guidance led by prominent American leaders.
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Denver
Colo
United States
National Congress of Mothers
America
Pulaski County Strawberries Net 250000 In 1930s Sales
In Cairo Illinois on June 10 statistics show Pulaski county strawberries earned about 250000 dollars with most fruit shipped to Chicago. Crates sold for 1.50 to 2.50 on the track and profits funded purchases such as automobiles for several growers.
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Cairo
Ill
Pulaski County
Chicago
New Inventions Talked Of Inventions and Devices
A survey of new devices includes Bertillon’s crime detection system with a dynamometric burglar alarm and fingerprint methods, a submarine rifle tested on a shark, and Vienna’s street cleaning automobile. The diver Captain Groble promoted the armor‑piercing gun, while municipal leaders show interest in automatic dust collection and box exchange for continuous street cleaning.
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Groble
London
Humor of the Hour and Classic Shakespeare Baseball Snippets
A collage of humorous quips on throat exercise, sleeping with family, and baby antics from Life. It includes a cartoonish tale of a baby’s mischief, a witty dialogue about medicine from Pittsburg Press, and Shakespearean baseball lines cited by the Chicago Tribune.
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Shakespeare
Richard III
Macbeth
Hamlet
Henry VI
Julius Caesar
Titus Andronicus
Coriolanus
King Lear
Chicago Tribune
Opera Lovers and Shoppers Show Varied Reactions
A Spokane Spokesman-Review item notes a chatty young woman praising grand opera while noting chorus flaws. A rear voice quips about shutting mouths. In Boston, Mrs De Hubb critiques a shirt purchase as a product of the perspiring system, warning against supporting manufacturers.
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Spokane Spokesman-Review
de Hubb
New York Weekly
Getting Together and the Goats and Lobsters
Yonkers Statesman notes a recurring joke about unlikely pairs in social life. The cartoonish dialogue features Crimsonbeak and others imagining harmony between rival groups described as the goats and the lobsters.
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Crimsonbeak
Yonkers Statesman
Why Foxley Walks With Wife On His Left
In Chicago News a humorous note asks why Foxley always has his wife on his left side during walks. The punchline: he is deaf on that side, so she talks and guides him.
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Ertillon
Paris
Seymour
Foxley
Ashley
Chicago News
What kind of a person is she
A brief quoted fragment from the Chicago Record-Herald notes a persona described as always saying “heart rendering.” The passage centers on a characterization rather than a reported event or full narrative.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Silver Jubilee of Oregon College Celebrated in Corvallis
In Corvallis Oregon June 10 a week of jubilee events marks the twenty fifth anniversary of Oregon Agricultural College as a separate institution. Highlights include dramatic performances social functions baccalaureate sermon by Rev F W Clampet and speeches by W F Herrin and James M Hamilton. The college grew from land grant roots to eighteen buildings on 224 acres showing steady progress since 1868.
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Corvallis
Ore
Oregon Agricultural College
F. W. Clampet
San Francisco
Kerr
W. F. Herrin
Southern Pacific Railroad
James M. Hamilton
Montana Agricultural College
United States
Oregon
Corvallis College
Benton County
M. E. Church
South
Secretary Ballinger designates 19200 acres under homestead act
Secretary Ballinger has designated about 19 200 acres under the enlarged homestead act in township 24 north range 21 east Douglas county. This brings the total under the act in Washington to 3 401 816 acres.
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Washington
Ballinger
Township
Range
Douglas County
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