Word: loma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the world doughty little publications are informing their communities of the life around them, in many cases converting the illiterate to literacy in the process. One such journal turned up on my desk this week: Issue No. 259 of the Loma Weekly, a Mimeographed paper that serves the natives of the mud-hut village of Wozi (estimated population: 250) in the dense, equatorial rain forest of Liberia. Reading it in New York, some 5,000 miles away, I found Wozi's news lively, to say the least...
Take, for example, the story called "The Elephant Matter" (thoughtfully translated from the Loma dialect by the weekly's Editor Margaret D. Miller, daughter of a Lutheran missionary): "The women went to fish in a stream and the elephants came after them. They chased them the whole day long . . . We who went to meet the women were five. The elephants chased us too. We had to climb a tree. One man, whose name was Peiwala, took off his shoes and left them under the tree. The elephants took the shoes and spoiled them...
...Angeles at 8 p.m., December 28 in the Club House at 234 South Loma Drive; Buffalo at 12 noon, December 30 in the Buffalo Athletic Club; Rochester at 12 noon, December 29 in the Victorian Room of the Sheraton Hotel; Syracuse, December 28; Chicago at 12 noon, December 28 in the Grand Ballroom of the LaSalle Hotel...
...Louis, Mo.: Dec. 30. 12:00 noon at the Lenox Hotel. Henry P. Day, 796 Arcade Bldg.; Southern California: Dec. 29. An Open House in the Club House. Ladies invited. 234 S. Loma Dr., Los Angeles, Cal. Robert H. Ingram...
...Coral Gables Minnesota Dec. 30 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Smoker Town & C'ntry Club St. Paul Philadelphia Dec. 29 12:15 p.m. Luncheon Bellevue Stratford St. Louis Dec. 29 12:15 p.m. Luncheon 476 N. Kingshighway So. Calif. Dec. 29 to Jan. 2 Daily 234 S. Loma Drive Los Angeles Syracuse Dec. 26 Hotel Syracuse Dayton Dec. 23 Evening Eastern Michigan Dec. 29 Dinner Kansas City Dec. 30 12:00 noon Luncheon 918 Baltimore Ave. Nebraska Dec. 29 12:00 noon Luncheon Omaha Club New Canaan Dec. 30 Dinner Rochester Dec. 27 12:30 p.m. Luncheon Hotel Sheraton