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Here is a school for teaching the fine art of janitoring. The founder of the school is Professor Sam Haskins, and one of his classes is shown receiving instructions in the use of a dust cloth.

Mr&Mrs VB Leeds & Prince Christopher

Under the will of William B. Leeds, former American "tin plate king." the $25,000,000 fortune he left in trust to his widow, who has just died in London as Princess Anastasia of Greece, wife of Prince Christopher, will revert to his son, William 8. Leeds, who married Princess Xenia of Greece in 1921. It is believed, however, that Princess Anastasia provided liberally for her husband, Prince Christopher, who was made penniless when he was exiled from Greece and to whom she was devoted.

Princess "Anastasia:

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Upon Miss Peggy Keith, a 15-year-old giri, of Warrenton, Va., has been bestowed the title of "America's Most Distinguished Farm Girl" by the United States Department of Agriculture. She raises ponies, dogs, chickens and cattle, is an expert canner and produce grower and can qualify as a judge in any live-stock show. Miss Kaith won her title in competition with 600,000 boys and girls from all sections of - the United States and will be sent to the Eastern States Exposition at Springfield, Mass., by the Department of Agricultur as a reward.

Princess Anastasia of Greece, wife of Prince Christopher, is re- ported dying of complications of the heart at Spencer House, her London home. i the event of the death of the former Mrs. W. B. Leeds, widow of America's "tin: plate king," her immense fortune, valued at many millions of dollars will go, under the deed of trust to her son, William B. Leeds, who married Princess Xeria of Greece inf1921.

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Now that Eamonn de Valera. self-styled "President of the Irish Free State authorities, his little son Republic," is held in prison by the is carrying on in his place and is here reading a message from his father to a Republican meeting in O'Connell street, in Dublin.

Madame Alexandra Kollontay is the only woman Ambassador in the world, being Soviet Russia's | Minister to Norway, a post she has (occupied since October, 1922. She is the only woman ever named a member of the Executive Com- mittee of the Communist Party. and was head of the Department of Public Welfare in 1917-1918, Madame Kollontay organized the women of Russia from 1918 to 1922 before being sent to Norway. For she was a political emigree, living nine years before the revolution

in different parts of Europe, where she learned French English and German.

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Michel Kalinin is President of the new Russian Federation of states. He is known as the Peasant President. In spite of his rise he has never lost his close personal connection with the village in which he was born. One time kitchen boy for a Russian baroness, he is now touring the Far Eastern provinces of Russia, where he receives ovations everywhere. Nariman Narimanov, a Tartar, is President of the Republic of Transcaucasia one of the republics in the Russian Federation. A. G. Cherviyakov, President of the Republic of White Russia, is acting as head of the Federation while Kalinin is on his tour. G. I. Petrovsky, a member of the Duma from 1912 to 1914, is President of the Ukraine Republic, a member of the Federation.

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This is the Harbour of Piraeus, Greece, the port of Athens, which Italy threatened to bombard as a result of the assassination of the Italian mission that was fixing the Greco- Albanian frontiers,

Chief Stephen Hare..

In 1861 Stephen Hare, 20 years old, tried to enlist to fight in the Civil War. The medical examiners rejected him, telling him he had only a few months to live. In 1866 he became Chief of the Fire Brigada Since then he has kept in the fire-fighting business, and now he is the oldest fire chief in the world and still to active pursuit of his "buffing.” He is 82 years of age and healthy.

HOUSEWIVES ATTENTION; Take up Arms (Any kind of house spray); LOAD (Fill the spray with LVTOL); AIM (All corners, crevices, cracks or any suspected places); FIRE (Spray LOTOL freely ; it quickly does its work and leaves no trace. There is no mistaking the enemy; they are widely known as VERMIN; commencing with fleas, they range up as large as cockroaches; and no matter how thorough and careful the little housewife may be, these mikereants somehow make entry to eren the cleanest homes.

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BRINGING UP

FATHER

AH-YOU MEAN

ALL RIGHT

MIKE!

WELL - HERE LAM IN TOWN AT, LAST - YOU ARE TO TAKE ME TO

YOUR HOUSE -

MR. JIGGS:

YES JUST

STAND THERE A SECOND

I WANNA GIT:

SOME ONE TO GIVE YOU A

LIFT.

ZE TAXI

came

Sole Agents for South China.

DIS IS ZE DISGRACE··

WHERE CAN THE COUNT BE · HE

MUST BE IN TOWN-

OH HE IS

PROBABLY

HANGIN'

AROUND SOMEWHERE!

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