John Williams Heads to New York Aboard American Banker
John J. Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Gray Williams, sails next Wednesday from New York as deck boy on the liner American Banker during summer vacation. The ship runs between New York and Southampton as he resumes law studies at the University of Virginia.
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John Williams
John J. Williams
R. Gray Williams
New York
United States
Williams
University of Virginia
Southampton
England
Yard Party at Bryarly's School House Benefit Ball
A yard party and benefit ball are planned for July 22 at Bryarly's School House. Proceeds support the ball team and related activities.
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Bryarly’s
French Court Delivers Long-Delayed Grazing Land Judgment
The Aix en Provence appeal court issued a final ruling in a case first heard in 1327 over 16 000 acres near the Italian border. Four claimants disputed the land once owned by the royal houses of Anjou. The final decision partitions the property among the claimants under a plan by experts.
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Associated Press
Aix-En-Provence
France
Anjou
Mehlbon Drops Lead In Golf Classic
Chicago golfer Bill Mehlbon dropped from the lead in the national golf tournament after a 76 in the third round, totaling 219 and two shots behind John Turvesa of New York who led by two strokes at the halfway mark. Bobby Jones stood in temporary third with 220.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bill Mehlbon
Chicago
John Turvesa
New York
Bobby Jones
Conifers Best for Tree Planting on Farm
State College of Agriculture foresters say conifers grow faster and cheaper than hardwoods like maple and ash. They note conifers thrive on stony soils and bare pastures, quickly forming a forest floor and yielding greater long term wood quantities in fifty years.
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Forestry Department
State College of Agriculture
Ithaca
State Conservation Commission
Tillamook County Junior Farm Accounts Club Success
The Tillamook county junior farm accounts club for older boys proves effective in keeping interest in 4-H work. Led by a local banker and guided by state and county agents the group completed a year of activities including farm layout planning depreciation records dairy profitability and farming business methods. Members aged over fourteen with three years club experience participated.
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Unitedates Department
Junior Farm Accounts
Tillamook County
Ore
State Farm Management
United States Department of Agriculture
Bankers’ Associations
Tree Bark Beetles Menace in Orchard Health
Orchard trees weaken by poor fertility or damage suffer bark beetle outbreaks. Improve vigor with cultivation fertilization and spray for other pests. Prune and burn dead wood. If infestation is severe cut back sparsely then re fertilize. Apply whitewash mixed with salt thrice yearly to deter further eggs.
Cannot Judge by Appearances in Dark Sacrifices Quote
A literary excerpt notes that appearance cannot reveal virtue or nobility even during deep sacrifice. The speaker warns that even a sister in charity tending a typhoid patient may harbor a mean, rancorous soul and suggests moral ambiguity in outward acts.
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Fiere iv
Charity
Moneterlinck
Dog of Ancients Traces German Shepherd Form to 5700 B C
Nature Magazine asserts that Stephanitz established the German shepherd dog existed in nearly its present form about 5700 years before Christ, around 8,000 years ago, based on bones and fossil remains.
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Stephanitz
Nature Magazine
Early navigator Robert Gray's global voyage in the Washington
Robert Gray, an early American navigator from Tiverton, sailed the sloop Washington on a circumnavigation during 1787 to 1789. The expedition marked one of the first American round-the-world voyages, highlighting Gray's marine exploration era.
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Robert Gray
Tiverton
R. I. Gray
Washington
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