Haunted Farm Site Reveals Skeletons Linked to Murders
Police probe deepens at Canarsie excavations where two skeletons were found in a barrel on the former farm blamed for local killings. Investigators link the site to a 1912 murder by Mrs Seely and report a history of robberies and disappearances around the haunted property in Brooklyn.
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New York
Canarsie
Charles Wuest
Hegeman Avenue
Powell Street
Morris Pflum
Samuel Block
Block
Captain Carey
Seventh Branch Detective Bureau
Purify the Star Spangled Banner in New York schools
A 1920s New York conference proposes removing black dialect from songs in textbooks and tempering the Star Spangled Banner. Dr. Frank Rix supports standardizing lyrics for foreign and domestic learners, including a rhythm shift and key change to aid singability.
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New York
America
Frank R. Rix
Board of Education
Rix
Girl Raises Pigs for Gain in Imperial Valley
Miss Josie Fuller a seventeen year old Holtville resident builds a fifty head hog herd for pleasure and profit in Imperial valley. She aims to be the district’s expert on hogs and notes pig culture is profitable despite not being an aesthetic pursuit. Her hogs fetch about 34 1 2 cents a pound and she nearly won a University of California prize, but judges docked her score for spending time on dogs.
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Holtville
Cal
Josie Fuller
Imperial Valley
University of California
Fish Jump Into Boat During Fox River Incident
A five and a half pound black bass leaped into the rowboat carrying Lloyd and Ione Thomas on the Fox River in Waukesha. The children escaped as rescuers arrived and reports say fish have jumped into boats at least six times this fall due to motor boat disturbance and murky water.
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Waukesha
Wis
Fox River
Lloyd
Ione Thomas
E. L. Thomas
Grid Teams Use Mass Play
Rutgers coach George Foster Sanford helped legalize a mass formation where three backs line behind three adjacent forwards. The rules committee ruled it legal if none of the back three touch the scrimmage line within a yard. Sanford praised the tactic while condemning dangerous “ham stringing” maneuvers as outlawed.
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George Foster Sanford
Rutgers
Football Rules Committee
Sanford
Mr. Sanford
Americans See Japanese Embrace Western Sports
Americans returning from Japan note rapid assimilation of Occidental sports by the Japanese. Golf tennis and motoring attract hundreds of devotees and several players show early proficiency that may yield formidable opponents in a few years.
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Japan
Land of
Nippon
Cleveland Selected To Host National Track Championship
The Amateur Athletic Union announces that Cleveland will host the national track and field championships next year. Frederick W. Rubien, secretary treasurer, disclosed the choice during a New York Athletic Club outing for visiting athletes at Travers Island.
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Middle West
Frederick W. Rubien
Amateur Athletic Union
New York Athletic Club
Travers Island
Cleveland
Golf Gains Ground as National Sport Claim
The Kansas City Journal asserts golf has become universal across classes, resistant to derision as a "sissy" sport. It portrays golf as a full bodied game demanding brain and muscle and positioning it as a strong rival to baseball for the national game.
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Kansas City Journal
Oberlin Names Paul Des Jardien New Football Coach
Paul Des Jardien, former University of Chicago football star, is appointed head coach of Oberlin College football. Since graduation last June he has worked with Marshalltown and Cleveland baseball teams and now leads the Yeomen.
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University of Chicago
Oberlin
Marshalltown
Cleveland
Sports Nonsense and Headlines from the Gridiron to Boxing
A collage of sports quips touches on Heine Zimmerman and fielding errors, Eddie Plank praising Koob, and jokes about football earnestness, home-plate dusters, and winter wrestling. It notes boxing, golf, and boxing season, plus Kilbane’s title run and Kolehmainen’s decline, with Thurman’s punter line and a French ambulance note.
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Allan Thurman
Virginia
French Toeive
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Koob
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