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Show • Providing for Bette r Heal th In Jerus alem Flood. ·Refugees Boar ding Steam er at Greenville I High Com~ooer Lord Plumer dellvertna the addreu at the lafing of the cornersto ne of the Nathan and Lina Straus Healtll center ID .Jerusalem, Palestine. The center represent s the advance of modern lclentUlc methods 1D hf'allng and pre•eatio n of dlsMse lu the Near East. OUR DOUG HBOY S GET MONGOLIAN PONIE S I I He:si.'Ue steamer Tollinger at Greenville , .MJ.ss., loading refugees to be taken to Red Crou stations at other polnta ln Mississip pi I Newly Elf'Cted Vice Presi dents of the D. A. R. A group ot doughboy s belonging to the Fifteenth Infantry, stationed at Tientsin, China, haYe been organized Into a mounted detaC'hment to meet fJI)eclal requireme nts. The platoon consists of 1 84 men under the leadershi p of Capt. B. M. Bend6rso n, and they are mount- I ed on Mongolia n ponlel!l. "Noa h's Ark" of Gassed Vete rans I I CHILD PRODIG Y Here are the new vice 'pre!ilden ts general of the Daughter s ot the American Revolutio n who were elected at the annual conventio n of the organizat ion held In Washingt on, Lett to right: Mrs. William Shennan ot Wubln~on state; Mr11. Charles H. Bissell of Connectic ut; ~Irs. .John P .• Mosher of New York;Walker Mlsa Isabel Wyman Gordon of Massacitu setts; Mr11. William B. Burney of South Carollna, and MrB. Clarence S. Paine of . 'ebraska. BOOME D BY VIRGIN IA Rare 'Bird Has Been Rediscovered I I I I • Here is the "Noah's Ark," as it is called by Its owners, B. Peterson and a tag from evflr7 state In the Union, aa well u lots ot funny quJpa marked on it. The owners are World war vets, pssed In the Arronne. Told they bad not lonr to live, they decided to see the world. So far they lutve been up and down the coast and acrou tbe United States tlve tlmee, and their health bas Improved so that theJ' no: longer feel tbe ill effects ot the Argonne gaa. (W. Wood, both of Sausellto, Calif. It bas I Triplets in Heal th Day Contest 1\Iiss Cornela! S. Adair, of tbe Rich- Frances Berkova, whc>se playing ot a snaall cheap vlolili was recognlz~ by E~m Zlmballst , violln master, -. the. mUI!IIc of a true artist. She h. only twelve, but will san all alon4 for a· concert tour of Europe. WOLVE S mond (Va.) schools, whom tbe VIrginia Education associatio n presents tor the next president of the National Education IUISOclatlon when the annual conventio n meets at Roanoke in November . Miss Adair baa not only been ofllclally ldentifted with the National Education associatio n, but baa been Intimately connected with other national organizat ion•. · After being lost to the scientific world tor nearly 100 years, the straight< bllled reed runner, a bird of Uruguay, discovere d by Charles Darwin ou hls famous cruise In the Beagle In 1881, has been rediscove red by the Oapt. Marshall Field South American expeditio n ot the Field museum, ChlcagG, Two specimen s of the reed runner were Included In an extensive shipment ~ 8,842 zoologica l specimen s from Uruguay. Larg est Post Card Ever Mailed FOUGH T THE FLOOD This &et of triplets, Elizabeth , Eugene and Alfred O'Brien, six-month s-old chlldresa of Mr. and Mrs. Peter O'Brien ef New York, is the eotry ot the Union settlemen t ID the national contest for the healthies t chlldren on Child Bf!alth 'day, ~rated througho ut the nation on May L I Guarding: the Foreign Concession I ! I I After having lost her way In the woods near ~owettvUle, WJs., and been forced to · remain pel'dled In a tree tor eighteen boura wblle a pack of hunll'J' wolves kept a ceueleaa MaJ. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, (!blef of vtlf,l at the toot ot the tnre, IIIII u:otted States army engiDeen , who forelp ~ Helen Tbomtlll, 4aushter of a ~ direCted the work of enlf,neen 1n their by the roads storekeep er, wu 1'8IICaed - a etrorta to bold the M1aalulp pt rlver poue of eea:elleL 1 lood 1D check ud to reacae 'rietlml. The lar&'est post card ever BeDt throop the mall was received at the Washingt on post oftlce. It is an IDvttatl~ to the post omce clerk,ti Of Wash· luJton to attend the natloual ~veotton of the NatloDal Jl'e4eratlon ot Poat omce Clerks, to be held at Indla.Dapollli aext ~ber. fte eartJ required one dollar In poetqe, |