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Hard by, in Northwestern's pellucid pool, lithe swimming boys from Wilmington (Del.) High School, eastern champions, trudgeoned to national aquatic honors with 33 points. Second, Detroit, Northwestern, 25 points. Third, Rockford...
...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: "But yet I think it is one of the worst books for boys in their mature age." Of Evangeline, said a 14-year blade of Quincy, Mass.: "It doesn...
Factional strife among the Kansas Third Party leaders occupied his attention a moment then he was off for much-stumped Illinois, speaking in Chicago ("The Dawes' Plan means economic servitude for Germany!") and in Rockford ("Watch Washington for startling 'slush fund' disclosures...
...South and then try to secure a substantial number of the larger states East of the Mississippi-Indiana, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia. After four days of comparative quiet, the special train pulled out of Chicago; and Mr. Davis on the back platform made speeches at Rockford, Freeport, Galena, Dubuque. At Omaha, he made his first major speech-on the farm problem. He declared that 1,200,000 people had been forced to leave the farms by the Republican policy of deflation. He called the Fordney-McCumber Tariff "an offense to every consumer...
...found that the water with the highest iodin content had 18,470 times as much iodin as that with the lowest content. The richest supply was that at Mexia, Tex., with 18,470, and next was Stanford, Calif., with 10,580. The poorest were at Duluth, Spokane, Rockford. This seems to answer the argument against increasing artificially the amount of iodin in the city water since people frequently go from an iodin-poor district to an iodin-rich one and never notice any change in the water or any effects on themselves. The water supplies of Rochester...