Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the story of Samuel M. Ralston's rise in politics. His de- parture from it was equally dignified and calm. Since early in September he had been ill with uremic poisoning. He recognized that he had not long to live; so he bade his family and friends good-by last week at his bedside in his Indianapolis home and one morning slipped into unconsciousness. Twenty-two hours later he died...
Miss Mabel Vogel, of the Winnetka, Ill., public library, seeing what a business it is for parents and teachers to find the right reading for the young idea, enlisted teachers in 35 cities to collect ballots from 36,700 school children and enable her to make out a graded list of 700 books to recommend her contribution to Children's Book Week (Nov. 8-14). Telling the Illinois Library Association about it last week in Rockford, Miss Vogel told other things she had learned: An Omaha boy, aged 13, after reading and liking Tom Sawyer, had declared...
...Bebe Daniels appears in the role played by Helen Hayes when this comedy was on Broadway Quarantine, reviewed in TIME, Dec. 29, THE THEATRE). She plays a little girl who ran away with her sister's lover and got unexpectedly segregated with him by a plague. Neither fell ill, except at heart. They were subsequently married and are generally entertaining through the whole process...
Like a new cigaret-case, the game between Illinois and Iowa opened and closed with a snap. "Red" Grange (Ill.) picked up the opening kick-off and ran 80 yards for a touchdown in the last minute of the last half, with the score 10 to 6 against his team. "Cowboy Knick" Kutsch (Iowa) ran 32 yards to the Illinois one-yard line; crossed it on the next play as the whistle blew. Score: Iowa 12; Illinois...