Waite High School - Warrior Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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city third place in the output ol motor cars. One of these factories alone covers l2O acres. On thousands of tables throughout the country, Libbey glass is to be found, and Ford plate glass is in the windows of numberless stores and houses. The bottle we obtain at the drug store was in all probability fashioned by the Owens bottle machine, which has revolutionized the bottle-making industry. And what Toledoan has not used sugar from beets grown in the vicinity, the price ofthe product depending on the beet plains of Europe or the cane fields of the tropics? Do Belgian folk like a cup of coffee? Perhaps the fragrant bean has been roasted and prepared for distribution by the VVoolson Spice Company. But industries are not the Whole of life, Toledo, with its up-river and other residential colonies, is a place of pleasant homes. Nor is the city adequately described without mention of the three, million-dollar high schools, and last word in educational structures, and the art museum, unsurpassed for the beauty of its architecture. The Nlaumee, which here flows darkly to the lake, is bordered along its upper course by productive farms. It is a far cry from the unbroken Wilderness to cultivated fields, and much that We enjoy is due to the staunch pioneers, who came to this region to found themselves homes. Ask the smiling valley, and it will tell the story of the brave Who slumber there, ask the shining river, Whose waters were stopped With the bodies of the slain, and it will speak of the heritage given us by the past-a heritage of which every loyal citizen should be proud, and which he should earnestly strive to perpetuate. ,4-. hx ' r i f ' A ' my fr wr- A ' i- vffi-,-:'fi M779 ff N W ZW' fs1,,- - . - ff, ,:,.'?9Sf' 'WJ . at X -. ii, . 2,2 'wifi 'qty .c.a,t, wa . L Wai' s wrt, ch Wag ft iq tv, . - . . A ,af , ,i 'g.'.1w ,Messe 1. wff,fg7 ,,:g5P- ,,,1-. If V :iz if be a. ecsaff-:wwf 95 . - ,,1-,. f- , v , wal: '- -' -Q 57' , '1. it 4-.1 H of 5.1, I I ,-g,.,.,. .ALL '.f:.f.,.C, ,ii-fr. , cgi? F5 . .14 .zuttyw pw, if ifefafyyii. ,' ,ig fl. ,, V X , If ,,,H, , ,.:, 1 7- - el iw W1 f'ff.. 1 W?'f' ff il , Whplkz w ' F2 X fy f i Airs. s fi4'lfiff. 'd' N46 fir fm '1'LJFHQE.Y'FDOT' ROCK