Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helser M.A. and Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society will address two meetings at the University today under the auspices of the Harvard Mission. Mr. Helser has just completed his first term of missionary service in Africa, and before returning to that continent at the end of November, is visiting a number of colleges in this country...
...Helser has been doing pioneer missionary work at a new station in the interior of Africa, a thousand miles from the coast. His experience as a traveler, explorer, and missionary in the Dark Continent has been extensive. He is the author of a book on travel entitled "In Sunny Nigeria" that stamps him as an expert on African customs...
...clock this evening, Mr. Helser will be in Standish Hall Common for an informal talk to the Freshmen on "Why I Go Back to Africa." This talk will be based chiefly on Mr. Helser's personal experiences as a missionary in the interior. As at the afternoon meeting, there will be ample opportunity for questions and for discussion. Although the evening meeting is primarily for first-year men, it will be open to other members of the University who were unable to attend the Phillips Brooks talk...
...standard, he made them himself. At Zion City, Ill., he got John Alexander Bowie's disciples to make lace for him. To the Virginia-North Carolina boundary he brought mountaineers to weave cotton and woolen fabrics in mills he built. His buyers bought at first hand in Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as in the Americas. In effect, he created a "vertical" business for his company by controlling raw material, manufacture and sale. No other retail business has done this so thoroughly and so successfully. Marshall Field & Co. (the name was adopted in 1881) now can call itself...
...sources of supply," according to the 1922 Tin report of the U. S. Tariff Commission. Practically no tin is found in continental U. S. Appreciable deposits exist in Cornwall (known since the time of the Phoenicians, the Philistines), Burma, Siam, China, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Portugal, Spain and scattered regions of Africa...