Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BITTER CREEK-James Boyd-Scribner...
...riders" (jumpers) are judged on form and distance (in two jumps). At last week's championships the 20,000 spectators who gathered in St. Paul's Battle Creek Park held their breaths when it was Reidar Andersen's turn. He is credited with one of the longest leaps on record (340 ft.) and his form is said to be the world's most magnificent...
...with reporters. He takes a boisterous but effective part in the periodic poker games of the "Twelfth Street Country Club," a group of P-D oldtimers. When he built his present house in the Ladue district he asked his friends if they thought he was getting too near a creek. They said he was. He built there anyway. The creek made him mad, too-came right into his cellar...
Will Keith Kellogg, 78, makes breakfast food for children, but he has more than a commercial interest in them. Eight years ago he established the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Mich., gave it $46,000,000 to improve children's health & happiness, soon decided to expand the Foundation's work so it could help grownups, too. By last week the people it had helped were helping themselves so enthusiastically that even Will Kellogg was astonished...
...Kellogg appointed as general director of the Foundation Dr. Stuart Pritchard, onetime president of the National Tuberculosis Association. Dr. Pritchard went to work in seven counties near Battle Creek† First he persuaded these counties to establish health departments, with the Foundation footing most of the bills. He saw that youngsters got medical examinations and treatment (free, when necessary), that mothers had doctors to help deliver their babies, that sanitary engineers told people how to dispose of their sewage. But he soon concluded that this sort of thing was like patching a rusty roof...