New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1923, Page 13

Herald Camera-men | Their Story But Oh What Harmony! # Not one of them can hear. Yet every member of this band from the School for the Deaf and Dumb at Knoxville, Tenn., is a good musician. A highly developed sense of vibration governs every note. Despite the handicaps, this band is considered one of the best musical organizations in the south. It has played for many dignitaries in recent months, Like Joan of Arc of Old All “gold-stripers They're disabled women_veterans of three wars—Civil, Spanish-American and World. From left to right they are, Miss Eudora Clover, Washington; Mrs. Mary Fos- ter, Alameda, Calif., and Miss Louise Walls, Chicago. No wonder they're all smiles!” They've won their fight for admittance of women “gold-stripers’ "into the national soldiers’ homes and sani- tariyms. Takes a Centipede to Run it This Chinese typewriter, property of the Japanese embassy at Washington, has 2450 different characters ,each fitted into small squre compartments. The device is so heavy that two men are required to lift it. Photo shows a member of the embassy staff about to give her the gas. Only One North-South - Miss Alice Peckham (above), 1 8 District Court clerk of Tthede 1s 1, s the only woman in the ¢ . Ko . I ey, it i il holding 1 Fhoto taken in Providence, R wons above Chancellor, Dr. Williar wakir » dicates Marx. Note the peculiar eonstruction of the chamber, “Merry Christmas” She’s a Sure Winner It won't be a very merry Christmas for these Germans. The photo just arrived from Berlin, Other Old Friends Are Falling Farewell, old roadside billboards! You've played an important part in our lives, Rolling Fork, Miss., has just been put on the map as a town knowing good clothes. Nora Flowers, 16, of that community, won the national prize for excellence in clothe idging at a contest held recetnly in Chicago. Plenty of Sunshine But now are numbered-—in Minnesota, at least. No longer will you tell folks traveling through Gopher state just what to smoke or chew, or what hams arve best, Nor will you emblazon your fam™ vy messages, “200 miles to St. Pau I'he state Legislature has decreed all signs along the ways must 2o, It's a safety medsure, lHerveure two Highway department employes exe- cuting, ihe assembly’s decree, Blue Rikbon Winners is shown here vitn - Misty Josephine Garden of Wapello, at the 24th International Morning,” pudged the prize short Next in Line Peggy Clark is hearlded today as the prettiest red-headed eirl in San Francisco. Judges in a contest at the Cailfornia In- dustries Exposition conferred the honor on her. Old Landmarks to Go Saitzman e il Corps ¢ corps Stock Show held recently in Chica At the 1918 exhibition, Jo- W i T i Dhiis Wiz Wi sephine came out first in a pretty-givl contest. Dr. Maix Makes His First Address A remarkably el the Reichstag, ietdin t address beforc the body of lawmakers. Arrow in- Both are said to have n sold recentl Those who have visited New York ty well remember the two landmarks above. Top shows the Vanderbilt mansion at Fifth Avenue and 58th street, opposite Sentral park. Below shows a row of quaint houses on W 10th street. wit stone’s throw German of the Gay White Way. They area little old New York.” aid will be toin down to make way for skyscrapers,