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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph, Mo., then and now, apple butter capital of America, a group of Jackson Grammar School boys formed an organization known as the Apple Butter Club, membership being confined exclusively to boys and girls who liked apple butter and who helped their mothers make it. Meetings were held twice monthly and refreshments consisted of apple butter, crackers and apples. Activities consisted of refreshments mostly and voting in new members whose initiation fee was the apple butter supply for the day's meeting...
...Chicago's Palmer House with awed quotations from his rugged views on Art ("Art and football are very much alike"). More important to Robert Zuppke and a majority of the inhabitants of central Illinois is the fact that in the last 24 years Illinois teams have won twice as many football games as they have lost...
Last week Robert Zuppke's finger-on which he superstitiously changes rings if his team loses-twitched. A highly touted Notre Dame team which Coach Elmer Layden thought was the best he had yet assembled, scored twice as many first downs as Illinois, and twice as many yards from scrimmage. But at the end of the game Zuppke's rings were still in order. Zuppke's 25th anniversary year had begun with a small triumph. Score...
...Twice as many leg amputations are below the knee as above. Arm amputations are about 50-50 above and below the elbow. About 80% of artificial limbs are legs, made from willow, aluminum or fibre and costing about $200 when attached below the knee, $225 when attached above. They weigh about five pounds, last five or six years. Artificial arms cost from $125 for simple types to $250 for those including movable wrists and hands. Wearers always remove their artificial limbs upon retiring, usually stow them under the bed. They can be donned in two or three minutes. Many wearers...
...President and Fellows of the University meet today at 10:30 o'clock at 24 Milk Street. The Corporation ordinarily meets twice a month. This will be the first meeting since the death of Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, on October...