Word: del
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...entrance doors to the papal apartments being entrusted to their charge. . . . The religious privileges of the guards are very extensive. . . . The Swiss Guards are fully armed, and have to submit to a strict course of exercises and gymnastics. Football is zealously cultivated by them in the Cortile del Belvedere, and their trumpet corps is splendidly organized...
Wilmington, Del...
Transferred. Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S.; to Paris, where he will be able more easily to continue his useful League of Nations work. Possible successor in Washington: Julio Alvarez del Vayo, present Spanish Ambassador to Mexico...
...Cleveland, Ohio, D. Miller, Revere, T. E. Naughten, Washington, D. C., J. C. Neylon, Springfield, J. L. Noyes, Shaker Heights, Ohio, H. G. Olken, Cambridge, P. E. Parker, Swampscott, O. H. Pearson, Dorchester, D. E. Peter, Melrose, H. M. Plotkin, Athol, S. A. Polk, Stewartstown, Pa., W. Rickel, Elmhurst, Del., W. W. Rodgers, Leicester, J. R. Sanderson, Brockton, J. T. Sapienza, Irvington, N. J., E. R. Sargent, Wolfsboro, N. H., R. B. Schlatter, Fostoria, Ohio, A. B. Schneider, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio, R. V. Scudder, St. Louis, Mo., W. Shapiro, Roxbury, W. K. Simpson, Chelmsford, N. Smith, New York City...
This year's is the 25th annual seal in the U. S. In 1904 a Danish postal clerk named Einar Holboell suggested selling seals to finance a children's hospital in Copenhagen. The late Danish immigrant Jacob Riis suggested U. S. adoption of the idea. At Wilmington, Del., Emily Perkins Bissell, Red Cross and social worker, wanted $300 for a tuberculosis shack on the Brandywine. She persuaded the Philadelphia North American to publicize a small seal sale. She realized $3,000. That was in 1907. The National Red Cross snapped up the idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals...