The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-10-06
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In practically all of the public
schools in Indiana special exercises
were held today in celebration of the
birthday anniversary of James Whit
comb Riley, the 'Hoosier Poet Mr..
Riley, who is slowly recovering from
long illness at his home i'll this
city, will be IS years old tomorrow.
An imposing monument marking
the Revolutionary battlefield at
Chestnut Neck, this county, was I'M
yelled at Atlantic City, n j., today
with interesting exercises under the
auspices of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. Governor
Wilson, former Governor Fort and
other notables were among the speak
ers. :4.& 49,.
George Westinghouse, the cele-
brated inventor of the airbrake and
of numerous important electrical de-
vices, received the congratulations of
many friends and business associates
today on the occasion of his 65 birth
day anniversary. Mr.. Westinghouse
was born in Schoharie county, New
York, in 1916, and gave evidence of
his genius at the early age of fifteen
by inventing practical rotary en-
CINE,
mo man dares to say that the SCI
cret of the origin of life will be dis
covered, yet scientists are working
hopefully toward the unraveling of
the mystery" So said DR.. Albrecht
Kossell, director of the Physiological
Institute of Heidelberg University, in
Baltimore at the Johns Hopkins Uni
Versity for a series of lectures. DR..
Kossel received the Nobel medical
prize in 1910 for his studies of the
chemical constituents of prOteins as
applied to biology.
Cities and towns of Washington
are preparing to welcome President
Taft who tomorrow will enter upon
a four days tour of that state. WAL
la Walla will be the first stop on his
itinerary tomorrow and in the even
ing he will arrive in this city, where
a banquet will be given in his honor.
Governor Hay and other official rep
resentatives will meet the distin-
guished visitor at the Washington-
Idaho line, a short distance east Of
this. city, and accompany him on the
greater part of his tour through the
state.
Minneapolis will be the starting
point for one of the first aerial mali
routes in American, if the sanctions
of Postmaster General Hitchcock
can be obtained through Postmaster
w. D. Hale for Hugh Robinson to
carry twenty-five pounds of CORES
pondence on his trip to New Orleans
on which he will start from Lake
Calhoun Oct. II. At a meeting of the
SSiS1 t@1 SOlllul4CCCC VI Cl1C L Oils wi Is
sissippi Flight association yesterday,
Postmaster Hale was asked to take
the matter up with the postmaster
general.
In the picturesque village of Falls
Church, Va, nine miles from Wash
ington, a marble tablet placed upon
the outer wall of the Old Falls
Church edifice in honor of George
Washington, was unveiled today with
exercises conducted by the town
chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. Gen. Wash
ington served for twenty years as
warden and vestryman of the church
which is one of the oldest in this Sec
ton of the country. The first church
building is believed to have been
erected about 1903, while the pres
ent edifice was built in 1874 with
material brought from England.
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