Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President accepted the resignation of Dr. J. Morton Howell of Dayton, Ohio, as Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary to Egypt. Owing to ill health of Mrs. Howell, Dr. Howell had twice before presented unaccepted resignations. He was born in Uniopolis, Ohio, in 1863; in 1921 became Consul General at Cairo, Egypt, has been Minister to Egypt since...
Extent. From Cairo, Ill., to the Gulf is 570 miles air line but 1,090 miles by the river line. Southwestern Illinois, western Tennessee and Mississippi, eastern Missouri and Arkansas, northern and central Louisiana have been flooded. Hardest hit has been Louisiana. Two Louisiana parishes were inundated when the Poydras levee was dynamited; 5,000,000 acres in north Louisiana were under water last week with 4,000,000 more in imminent danger...
...Peoria, Ill., High School Seniors Al Landers and Frank Polkington bent over, let themselves be hit with a stout paddle at 5¢ per hit. They collected $4 (80 blows); gave the $4 to the flood relief fund; sat gingerly...
Illinois Episcopal clergymen assembled at Freeport, Ill., last week to analyze the reluctance of divinity school graduates to settle in small towns. It has become as difficult for a country community to hold a parson as it has been to hold a physician. Rev. H. W. Foreman of Manhattan, national director of rural work for the Episcopal Church, told the Illinois men that this was the condition of all the U. S.: "The great difficulty with the rural situation at present is that many of our clergy are merely 'tenant parsons' There is just as much danger...
...prominent as Coolidge" was ill? became the question. Did William Howard Taft have a dislocated shoulder, Charles Evans Hughes a stiff knee, Alfred Emanuel Smith a locked jaw, Will H. Hays flat feet? Questioning became a game; the game became boresome...