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From Fort Worth, Texas, and from Georgetown, Ky., public health officials reported local epidemics of infantile paralysis. About Fort Worth the disease has been a menace the past two months; Georgetown had 13 cases last week. In southern Ohio were sporadic cases...
...Stony Brook, N. Y., where ministers held a conference last week, the Rev. A. C. Robertson of Louisville, Ky., denounced the conventionalized clothing that clergymen affect. Said he: "I feel like flinging a brick at a reporter when he refers to me as a 'gentleman of the cloth.' A preacher should dress and act so that no one suspects he is a minister and should avoid the 'Belasco collar...
Louisville, Ky...
...commencement program of Kentucky Military Institute at Lyndon, Ky., near Louisville, carried the name of Mark A. Hanna III. His high marks, averaging 93%, had won him the highest honors of the 1927 class; he was to make the valedictory address. When, later, he rose to speak, an 18-year-old oval-cheeked boy, he reminded auditors of an able man whom he had never seen-the late U. S. Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, his great grandfather, who died...
...Mississippi River is 114. Last week in Kentucky and Tennessee scores of mountain streams, creeks hardly with names, took probably as many lives in the space of a few days. Flooded by an eleven-hour cloudburst they swept away bridges, houses and villages. Hardest hit was Perry County, Ky., with some 30 dead. The estimated death list has passed 100, with reports from isolated mountain districts expected materially to increase this total. Said Sheriff William Cornett of Perry County: "This is undoubtedly the worst catastrophe that Kentucky has ever known...