Entire Town of Elcho Lives in This Hotel
w v toasts of till1 largest hotel anil community center in the world in proportion to its population. Last
was wiped off the map by tire, not a single house escaping. Charles \V. Fish, president of a
decided to build a hotel and community center, and within !M) days had erected a building occupy
.ad containing a movie theater, bank, drug store, barber shop, general store and a hotel consisting
, v ,<?.! equipped with every modern convenience. The entire population lives at this hotel, and the only other
. ; in- city is the community center, which everyone is welcome to join.
TO SUCCEED HIS FATHER
Tht* v. n]i' *u political leaders are coming to the fore and are canvassing
fi!f'y:n:ry ;'rom coast to coast to get a line on the political views of the woin
s'u.t-rs. Mis. Elliot Cheatham of Atlanta, Ga., director of nine southern
bs jiiiil the District of Columbia visited headquarters in Washington with
4f exhibit which she will use at county fairs in the various states this fall to
wMiu'ii in voting.
Free State's Martyrs Honored
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Tt"jr.::'i:''in"is '(><)ked on? President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State
1 ' in Dublin, Ireland, erected to the memory of Michael
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: 1 v.! (Jrilfith.
Cheap German .Bricks Imported
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first of a series of shipments of 1)1 KK; . America, being
=,? -a cost very much lower tl.an is possible!" Amer ^
. Large from the S. S. Westphalia at New ^
k^urkvrs in this country at the present ? . j
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Portrait of Jul Dastur Cursetji Pav
! ry, A. B., son of the high priest of the
Parsis, Bomiwty, India, who is now at !
Columbia university. He ' has won
numerous prizes and scholarships from j
J many of the famous schools of Eu- (
rope and graduated with honors from
i the Bombay university in 1920. Mr. !
I Pavry was to proceed to England to
compete for the Indian civil service
j examination as well as to be called to
j the bar, but sacrificed this program at
the earnest request of some of the
leading Parsis of Bombay whc. per
suaded Mr. Pavry to qualify himself
for the position of the high priest and
thus walk in the footsteps of his great
father while the latter retires. At
present he is working for his doctor
ate and will finish his studies for the j
i Ph. D. degree at Columbia in lt)24.
SWEM IS CHAMPION
Here is Charles L. Swem, former j
stenographer to President -Wilson, with
the silver loving cup emblematic of the
shorthand reporters' championship of
the country, which he received at the
National Shorthand Reporters' conven
tion in Chicago, when lie took down
! 1,403 words of dictated testimony in
! five minutes and made only nine errors. J
POTTSVILLE'S PRIDE
This pretty young lady of Potts
ville, Pa., was selected to represent
tfcat city at tbe Atlantic City pageant.
Making It Hard to E ing It in From Canada
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Here, where the road from Montreal to New York crosses the Canada-United States boundary, every motor
tourist is stopped and his luggage is carefully examined for contraband. The same search is made en every other
highway crossing the border.
SHE SUES FOR A MILLION
Record-Breaking Haul of Fish
Demanding that her name be cleared
by the "last of her defamers," Mrs.
Helen Elwood Stokes brought suit for
$1,000,000 damages against her stepson,
W. E. D. Stokes, Jr., son of W. E. D.
Stokes, the New York hotel owner.
Young Stokes, called "Weddie" by his
father, named as one of several co
respondents in Stokes' New York suit
to divorce Mrs. Stokes, has lived for
some time in Chicago.
GERMAN DRY LEADER
Wilhelm Sollmann, leader of the
anti-alcohol movement In Germany
and member of the German diet, who
has become very active of late.
THEN THEY NABBED HIM
Bamonn De Valera. leader of the
Irish republicans, making his speech
at Ennis in ..County Clare just a few
minutes before the Free State troops
swooped down and took him prisoner,
when he was charged with murder
and arson. i
A record-breaking net haul on the Million Dollar pier at Atlantic City
brought in over two tons of fish, valued at $2,000. They were mostly weaktish,
some of which weighed as much as fourteen pounds each.
Scene of Disaster in Calcutta
Without warning, the Mohammedan orphanage in Calcutta collapsed, kill
ing 88 and injuring 33. Photograph sliows rescuers at work just after the
disaster occurred.
Nifi;ht Plane for Coast-to-Coast Mail
I
Mechanics at Curtiss field, L. I., tuning up the new "nighthawk" aero
marine plane, especially designed by P. G.. Zimmerman for 24-hour flights in*
the coast-to-coast air mail service in which it will soon make its bow. To
make emergency landing safe it has a low speed of only 44 miles per hour and
it is equipped with two powerful searchlights, one on either wing, as shown ini
photograph. It also has small "riding" lights to prevent collisions and elec
trically illuminated instruments.
GATHERED FACTS
Turkish women are forbidden to
dance in public.
Monuments to military heroes are
unknown in China.
Ceylon has always been the chief
locality for pearl fishing.
Mt. Katmai, in Alaska, is the largest
active volcano in the world.
There is little or no begging in north?
ern Italy, yet it is very prevalent in
Naples.
The state of South Australia is four
times as big as France.
Nearly -.000 women In the United
States are practicing dentistry.
Since the coal miner In this
country has worked on an average of
11X) days a year.
j Not less than $70,000,000 is being
. spent in California this year in hydro
j electric . enterprises.
1 Although there are native actresses
in Japan, some of them of great abil
ity, the tradition that men shall play
feminine roles still seraist*.