Items of Interest

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On July 11, the Stars and Stripes flew for the first time over the Pacific Coast sanatorium, which is now building.
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That The Mother Church is a world-wide movement, as it is often designated, is shown by the fact that among the new members admitted to The Mother Church at the last admission in May, there were, outside of applicants admitted from the United States, Canada, Newfoundland, Canal Zone, Cuba, Mexico, and the West Indies, applicants also from South America, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands, Australia, New Zealand, Straits Settlements, India, Dutch East Indies, Egypt, South Africa, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Germany, Austria, Finland, France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain and Ireland,—including the Isle of Man and the Channel Isles,—Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.
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The fact is interesting that The Christian Science Monitor is being used in some German schools as a model for teaching English to German scholars.
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The copyright of the current edition of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy was issued by the Register of Copyrights in Washington and endures until 1934.
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All who can will do well to visit the site of the new Christian Science Pacific Coast Sanatorium in San Francisco, where building operations are actively progressing.
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The country wide desire for economy, together with the present high cost of pig tin, says Commerce Reports, has led to many inquiries regarding the possibility of utilizing old tin cans.
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The modern banking system of Japan dates from the promulgation in 1872 of the national banking regulations, which were modeled on the national bank act of the United States.
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The United States secretary of the interior announces that during the month of June nearly 600,000 acres of lands included in withdrawals prior to that time were classified and restored to unrestricted entry.
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Plans for cutting a ship canal across Scotland, connecting the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean by a voyage of a little more than sixty miles, are advocated.
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The Republic of Costa Rica has an area of 18,400 square miles and a population officially estimated at 441,342.
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Sixty per cent of Canada's land area below the sixtieth parallel of latitude is non-agricultural and for the most part available for growing trees.
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The selling by manufacturers of large consignments direct to chain stores, mail order houses, and department stores at prices normally charged the wholesaler and at which the manufacturer cannot profitably sell the individual small retailer, was denounced as unfair competition, according to a committee report to the recent "Liberty Convention" of the National Wholesale Grocers' Association at Chicago.